Fee explainer · Food deliveryHow much does Grubhub charge restaurants?
Grubhub, along with Seamless, which runs on the same platform in New York, prices restaurants through plan tiers instead of a single flat rate. Here is how the published fees stack up in 2026, with a worked example.
Pricing sourced July 2026 · Pre-launch comparison
In short
Grubhub charges restaurants through tiered plans, and the marketing and delivery commissions together usually land in the 15% to 30% range of the order total, plus a payment processing fee of about 3.05% plus $0.30 per order. Grubhub also runs the Seamless brand in New York.
Grubhub vs a flat fee, side by side
| Grubhub | Bobby (pre-launch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee model | Percentage commission plus processing | Flat fee per order |
| Marketing + delivery | 15% to 30% of the order total | Flat $2 per order |
| Payment processing | Roughly 3.05% + $0.30 per order | Included in the flat fee |
| What the restaurant keeps | Order total minus commission and processing | 100% of the menu price |
A worked example
Take a $60 order in New York City.
Grubhub: At the top of the published range, commission plus processing can approach $18 to $20 of a $60 order once marketing and processing are counted, leaving the restaurant roughly $40 to $42.
Bobby (being built): With Bobby the fee is a flat $2 on that order whatever its size. The restaurant keeps the full $60 and the customer pays $62.
Grubhub breaks its restaurant cost into a marketing commission and a delivery commission, bundled differently from one plan tier to the next, with the combined figure usually landing in the 15 to 30 percent range of the order total. On top of that comes a payment processing fee of roughly 3.05 percent plus 30 cents per transaction, and then optional sponsored-listing spend on top of that again.
Since each layer is a percentage of the order, the whole thing scales with the ticket. Two orders that take the same effort to fulfil get charged very different amounts when one is larger, and the processing fee piles on either way.
A flat per-order fee folds all of that into one predictable number. Bobby is being built on a flat $2 per food order for New York, $1 to the restaurant and $1 to the driver, with processing included and the kitchen keeping the full menu price.