Food Delivery in New York City Food Delivery, NYC
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Coming soon · NYC

Food delivery in New York City.

From local spots to your door, flat $2 fee.

Bobby is being built to get food from the spots you already love to your door, tracked live the whole way, without the big apps’ 30% cut quietly baked into every menu. Instead of a percentage piled on top of inflated prices, Bobby charges a flat $2: $1 to the restaurant and $1 to the driver. The restaurant keeps its real prices, and the driver keeps every cent of the tip.

Be first when Bobby opens for Food Delivery in NYC. No spam, just your launch invite.

The math, both ways

A flat $2 fee, whichever side you are on.

Here is how a tracked dinner order works on Bobby, for the customer and for the driver. Drag the price to see it at any job size. Same flat fee, no percentage cut, ever.

$18

If you book it (customer)

Order total$18
Bobby fee+ $2
Card processingat cost
Price + Bobby fee$20

The flat $2 splits $1 to the restaurant and $1 to the driver, never a 30% cut. Standard card processing is billed at cost and shown in your total before you confirm; your tip goes entirely to the driver.

If you deliver it (driver)

Your price$18
Bobby's cut from you$0
You keep$18

A typical 25% app would take $5 of this job. On Bobby, all $18 stays yours.

What you keep as a driver, side by side

On Bobby
100%

You keep all $18. No percentage, ever. The flat $2 fee is the customer's, added on top.

A typical 25% app
75%

They take $5 out of this one job. You keep just three quarters of your own work.

Example only, not a quote. Drivers set their own price; the flat $2 fee is what stays fixed.

What you get

Everything, one flat fee.

  • Delivery from the local restaurants and shops you already order from
  • Flat $2 fee: $1 to the restaurant, $1 to the driver
  • Live order tracking from the kitchen to your door
  • Drivers keep 100% of their tips
  • In-app chat and secure card payment
How it works

Three steps.

  1. Pick your spot

    Browse local restaurants and see honest menu prices, with no percentage padding, before you check out.

  2. A driver grabs it

    A verified driver nearby picks up your order, and you track it live from the kitchen to your block.

  3. It lands at your door

    Pay by card in the app. The fee is a flat $2, a dollar to the restaurant and a dollar to the driver, and your tip goes straight to whoever brought it.

Across all five boroughs

Food delivery in your borough.

Bobby is launching food delivery borough by borough. Find yours:

The $1 difference

Why New Yorkers are choosing Bobby.

The big delivery apps take up to 30% from every restaurant, so kitchens quietly jack up their in-app prices to survive, and you pay for it twice: once in the marked-up food, once in the fees. Bobby charges a flat $2 per order instead: $1 to the restaurant and $1 to the driver. The restaurant lists its real prices, the driver keeps every tip, and you stop subsidizing a middleman’s percentage. That’s the whole model, fair for the block’s restaurants, fair for the drivers, fair for you.

Questions, answered

Food Delivery FAQ

How much is Bobby’s delivery fee?
A flat $2 per order: $1 goes to the restaurant and $1 goes to the driver, never a percentage of your bill. Delivery is the one Bobby service with a $2 fee instead of $1, because it splits between two people. Your tip sits on top and goes entirely to the driver.
Why is delivery $2 when everything else on Bobby is $1?
Every other Bobby service runs on one flat $1 fee. Delivery has two people to pay, the restaurant and the driver, so it’s a flat $2 split evenly between them. Still a fixed fee, still not the 30% cut the big apps take.
Will menu prices be cheaper than the big apps?
That’s the goal. Because Bobby doesn’t take a 30% cut, restaurants have no reason to pad their in-app prices, so you’re paying close to what you’d pay walking in the door, plus the flat $2 and standard card processing billed at cost.
Is Bobby available yet?
Not yet. Bobby is getting ready to launch in New York City and finishing the registrations and licensing it takes. Join the launch list and you’ll be first to order when we go live near you.
Ardi Shita, Founder & CEO of Bobby
Written & reviewed by

Ardi Shita Founder & CEO, Bobby

Ardi founded Bobby to fix the gig economy in his own city. With a background in investment banking, M&A and company building, he leads the New York team building one trusted app for everyday services — on a flat $1 fee, with not a cent skimmed off the people doing the work.

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Coming soon

Built for New York. Launching by the book.

Bobby is preparing for launch and is finalizing all required regulatory registrations and licensing, including applicable approvals from the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).

Our platform is being built with compliance at its core. Services requiring regulatory authorization will not be offered or made available until all applicable licenses, permits, and registrations have been issued.

In the meantime, we invite you to join our waitlist to be among the first to experience Bobby when we officially launch.