One ticket. Every path. See what DoorDash actually leaves you.
Enter a typical ticket once. This compares what dine-in, pickup,
DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and your own driver each leave
after commission, card processing, packaging, and the extra minutes to
bag a delivery order — and tells you the delivery-menu price each app
needs to match dine-in. Everything runs in this page; nothing is uploaded.
Your ticket
These apply to every path. A higher DoorDash menu price, extra
packaging, or your own driver cost goes in that path’s panel below
the table.
What you keep
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Same ticket on every path, ranked by what you keep.
Path
Listed
Fees
You keep
Vs dine-in
Price to match dine-in
Commission to match dine-in
This month vs dine-in
Transparent arithmetic from the rates you entered — not any app’s
current published schedule. Commissions vary by plan, market, and
contract. Check yours against a recent payout statement.
Each path’s rates and costs
Opened defaults are illustrative US rates, not a live fee schedule.
Replace them with the rates on your own statements — that is what makes
the comparison yours rather than a generic estimate.
What this does, and what it does not
The headline commission is not the decision
A 27% DoorDash plan on a $32 ticket is $8.64. Packaging and eight extra
bagging minutes at $18/hour add another $3.65 the percentage comparison
never shows. The decision number is the listed price that leaves you the
same cash as dine-in — often around 45% higher on that ticket — and the
monthly gap if you do not raise it. Since you cannot always set that
price yourself, the table also solves the other side: the commission
rate this path would need, at its current listed price, to match
dine-in — the number worth having ready when a plan renewal or a
lower-commission tier comes up.
DoorDash fees on one restaurant ticket
works the default example through in full, and
DoorDash vs Uber Eats fees
lines the three delivery apps up against each other on the same ticket.
What it deliberately leaves out
Fees are not the whole decision. An app fee is partly a payment for
demand you would otherwise have to create, and this page has no way to
know how many of those tickets you would have sold as dine-in or pickup.
It also does not model refunds, marketing credits, DashPass discounts
you absorb, or occupancy you lose when the kitchen is full of delivery
tickets. Read the gap as one input, not the decision. It does not
recommend a price, a contract, or a business model, and it is not tax,
financial, or business advice.
Common questions
How much does DoorDash take from restaurants?
It depends on the plan and market. Marketplace commissions commonly land between about 15% and 30% of the order total, and some plans add a separate processing fee. The number that matters is not the headline percentage: packaging, extra bagging minutes, and the price you list on the app all change what you keep. Enter the rate on your own statement above — this page does the arithmetic on the numbers you give it.
Is DoorDash worth it for a restaurant?
On fees alone, dine-in almost always leaves more than a marketplace order at the same menu price, because the app takes a commission dine-in does not. Whether that is worth it depends on whether the app brings tickets you would not have sold otherwise, and on whether you mark the delivery menu up enough to keep the same cash. This calculator shows the dine-in-matching price and the monthly gap; it does not know your incremental demand.
How do I price a DoorDash menu to keep dine-in profit?
Take the profit you keep on the dine-in ticket, add packaging, extra labor, and any separate processing fee, then divide by one minus the commission rate. The last columns of the table do that from the rates you entered. A worked example is on the DoorDash fees page linked below.
How much does Uber Eats take from restaurants?
Like DoorDash, Uber Eats commission depends on the plan and market, and commonly lands in a similar rough range of the order total, sometimes with a separate marketing or processing fee depending on the tier. The Uber Eats preset above starts at 30% as an illustrative default — replace it with the rate on your own statement, then this page shows the same dine-in-matching price and monthly gap it computes for DoorDash.
How much commission does Grubhub charge restaurants?
Grubhub's commission also varies by plan and market, and is often bundled with marketing or delivery fees rather than one flat number. The Grubhub preset above starts at 25% as an illustrative default. Enter your own statement's rate to see the menu price Grubhub needs to match dine-in profit on this ticket, and how that compares to DoorDash and Uber Eats side by side.