DoorDash vs Toast

DoorDash is best for restaurants willing to pay 20%–30% commissions for access to a large marketplace of customers. Toast is better for restaurants that want a POS system with more advanced features and basic online ordering as an add-on.

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Here are the key differences between DoorDash and Toast:

DoorDash
Toast

Lists your restaurant on the most popular third-party delivery app.

DoorDash Pickup feature lets guests order and pick up food directly.

Offers a point-of-sale solution built specifically for restaurants.

Provides in-depth POS reports tailored to restaurant businesses.

Rebuilds your restaurant’s website to drive more online sales with SEO.

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  • Website and Online Ordering
    designed to increase orders.

  • Mobile app with rewards
    to help you drive repeat orders.

  • Automated marketing
    proven to drive sales.

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The branded website and Online ordering platform is perfect for our guest and growing my business.

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FAQ's

Which restaurants should choose DoorDash?

DoorDash is a food delivery app that helps your restaurant reach guests who use its app. DoorDash lets you use promotions and ads within its app to help more people see your restaurant, but it doesn’t give you as many tools to market outside the app.

DoorDash charges restaurants a 15%-30% commission for deliveries and 6% for pickup. Similar alternatives to DoorDash, like Uber Eats, charge the same fees. Other apps like GrubHub charge a 5%-15% marketing fee plus a 10% commission on deliveries.

Like other third-party delivery apps, DoorDash’s fees make it hard for restaurants to make a profit on orders. DoorDash doesn’t help rebuild your website to attract new customers through Google. DoorDash also doesn’t give you full control over customer data, which makes it harder to market to customers.

For a detailed comparison of third-party delivery apps, read this guide on Uber Eats vs. DoorDash vs. GrubHub for restaurant owners.

Which restaurants should choose Toast?

Toast is best for full-service restaurants that need a Point of Sale (POS) system to manage orders, payments, and tables. It's great if you have a lot of dine-in customers. Restaurant owners like how Toast lets them customize the POS system to fit their needs.

Toast also offers online ordering, but it's not as focused on takeout and delivery. Competitors to Toast sometimes offer more features for driving online orders. If takeout and delivery are big parts of your business, a specialized platform might work better for you.

Toast doesn't put as much focus on marketing tools to drive online orders from your site. Toast doesn’t rebuild your website to attract new customers through Google SEO. Toast also doesn’t make you a branded mobile app for your restaurant to help grow reorders.

Is Owner.com a good alternative to DoorDash or Toast?

Owner is great for casual and quick-service restaurants that want to get more online orders. Websites made with Owner.com convert 2-4 times better than most restaurant websites. Owner also rebuilds your website with SEO best practices so you rank higher in Google.

Owner is a restaurant marketing tool that sends automatic emails and text messages. It even has an AI assistant that makes and sends marketing campaigns for you.

Owner also builds you a restaurant mobile app with your branding. Your new app comes with a built-in it and a rewards program to keep guests coming back. Together, these features can grow reorders by up to 85%.

Owner websites are built with proven designs to make more sales. So you can't customize the design that much. on the site or app. Owner also has a higher price, so it might not be the best choice for new restaurants.

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Owner of Samos Oaxaca

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