One queue for every takeaway order.

You know the shelf. Three tablets, three different chirps, and somebody holding the phone under their chin while they retype a Deliveroo order into the till. At ten past eight, with fourteen tickets up, that is where orders go missing. Every one that goes missing costs you the food, the refund and a one-star review that outlives both. Eclyde puts every channel into the same queue and onto the same kitchen display, so there is one list, in order, and nothing to retype. The tablets can come off the shelf once you trust it, and not before.

Do the sum on your own numbers rather than ours. Commission commonly runs 25 to 30 percent per order when the platform handles the delivery, less when you deliver yourself, and rates vary by contract, so check what you actually signed. On a €25 order at 28 percent that is €7 gone before you have paid for the chicken. The same order through your own page costs you the card fee and your share of a flat monthly bill: €169 a month billed annually, or €199 monthly, both at 0% commission. Above roughly €2,800 a month in online sales, that flat plan is the cheaper one.

Yes, and Eclyde gives you the parts you need: zones drawn street by street rather than as a lazy radius, a different minimum order per zone, two drops batched onto one run, and live tracking so the customer stops ringing the restaurant to ask where the food is. Driver floats reconcile at cash up with the card takings. Here is the honest limit. Below about twenty delivery orders a night, your own driver sitting waiting usually costs more than the platform's cut, so most restaurants run both for a season and shift the balance as the direct volume builds.