Why a flat price suits a lunch restaurant
Lunch is a repeat, thin-margin volume business: the same customers, five days a week, a low average order. A percentage commission eats exactly the margin that lunch already keeps tight.
When a lunch averages €12, a 25–30% commission is €3–3.60 per meal. In your own store you pay a flat €99/month whatever the volume — a predictable cost that doesn’t grow with daily demand.
A daily-changing lunch menu, easy to manage
The lunch menu changes every day, often a week at a time. In zapfood you update the menu and prices yourself from a plain-language dashboard, and customers always see the current day’s lunch in the store.
You can mark vegetarian, gluten-free and other options plus allergens clearly, so customers pick what suits them without asking.
- The day’s and the week’s lunch menu easy to update
- Vegetarian, gluten-free and special diets marked
- Allergen details on every dish
- Pickup and table ordering in one system
Pre-order smooths the 11–13 lunch rush
A lunch restaurant’s challenge is a two-hour peak. When a customer orders and pays ahead and picks a pickup time, the kitchen sees demand in advance and the meal is ready at the agreed time. The queue shrinks and tables turn faster.
Pickup time windows spread orders more evenly across the whole lunch period, so the kitchen doesn’t pile up into one moment.
Office and group orders
A large share of lunch sales comes from nearby offices. In the store a customer gathers a whole team’s lunches into one order and collects them at an agreed time — no round of phone calls, no writing orders by hand.
When group orders come straight into the system already paid, you save staff time and cut mistakes in the middle of the rush.
A loyalty program for lunch regulars
A lunch customer comes back again and again — which makes loyalty more valuable at lunch than anywhere else. With a loyalty program and promo codes you reward the regulars and get them ordering directly from you.
Because the customer orders in your own store, you get the customer data and can market the day’s lunch directly — unlike on a platform, where the customer belongs to the platform.