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Delivery App Margin Calculator vs. Toast
Two different shapes: Toast is a point-of-sale platform a restaurant runs its whole operation through, every day, as an ongoing account. This page is a free worksheet for one ticket at a time — what a delivery app actually leaves you, and what price matches dine-in — before any POS system is involved.
What each tool is for
Toast is a cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale and management platform, publicly documented as covering order taking, payments, menu management, and reporting across a restaurant's dine-in, online ordering, and third-party delivery channels. It is an account-based platform, sold as an ongoing subscription together with point-of-sale hardware, not a one-off calculator. Toast's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — restaurant point-of-sale and management software, sold as a subscription with hardware — are stated, and no dollar amount for Toast appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Toast does. It does not take an order, process a payment, or reconcile a delivery app's payout against a bank deposit. It takes one ticket's price, food cost, hourly wage for extra bagging, and expected monthly delivery-order count, plus the commission, payment-processing, packaging, and delivery-cost rates from a DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub statement, and shows what dine-in, pickup, each delivery app, and your own driver leave after fees — plus the delivery-menu price and the commission rate each app would need to match dine-in profit on that ticket, and the monthly cash gap if you do not adjust. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a restaurant and need one system for orders, payments, and reporting across dine-in and delivery. | Toast, or a comparable POS platform — running that system is not something this calculator does. |
| What does today's DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub ticket actually leave me, once packaging and extra labor are counted? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| What delivery-menu price matches what I'd keep from the same ticket dine-in? | This calculator's "price to match dine-in" column, not a flat markup guess. |
| How does DoorDash's commission compare with Uber Eats' on the same ticket? | This calculator's own DoorDash vs Uber Eats fees page. |
| I need one account so my whole staff is taking orders and running reports the same way. | Toast, or a comparable POS platform. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Toast is used through a subscription account with hardware. |
Most restaurants get different value from each: Toast (or a comparable POS platform) for running orders, payments, and reporting across every channel as an ongoing account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one ticket on one delivery app actually leaves before a POS system or a plan renewal is involved. This page's own figures are arithmetic from the rates you enter, not a live fee schedule, a payout reconciliation, or business advice.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, your entries are saved to this browser's local storage only, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Toast?
They answer different questions, and a restaurant may end up using both. Toast is a cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale and management platform, publicly documented as covering order taking, payments, and reporting across a restaurant's dine-in, online, and delivery channels, sold as an ongoing subscription with hardware. This calculator does one narrower thing: it takes a single ticket's price, food cost, and packaging and labor costs, and the commission and fee rates from your DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Grubhub statement, and shows what each path actually keeps after fees, plus the delivery-menu price that would match dine-in profit on that same ticket. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A restaurant that wants one system running its point of sale, payments, and channel reporting needs Toast or a comparable POS; someone deciding whether today's delivery commission is eating a ticket's profit is in the right place here.
Does this calculator replace restaurant reporting or a point-of-sale system?
No. It does not take orders, process payments, or reconcile a delivery app's payout against your bank deposit. It takes numbers you already have — a ticket's price and costs, and the fee rates from a statement — and computes what each channel keeps and the price that matches dine-in. Running orders, payments, and channel reporting day to day is a POS system's job, not a calculator's.
Is this page affiliated with Toast?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Toast, Inc. Toast is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
Open the Delivery App Margin Calculator to check your own ticket.