Online ordering for Dublin takeaways and restaurants

Dublin is where Irish takeaways compete hardest for every order, and where delivery-app commission adds up fastest. An online ordering system of your own gives your regular customers a direct way to order, on your website and your own app, with card payments going into your own Stripe account. You keep the apps for new customers; you stop paying app commission on the people who already know you.

Dublin’s food business market in numbers

The OpenStreetMap figures cover the Dublin area and are a floor, not a total: small takeaways are often not mapped. Even so, Dublin County has more than twice as many food businesses as Cork, the next largest county. Ireland had over 8,000 storefronts across Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats at the end of 2023, and close to half of them were in Dublin.

That density shapes how people order. A customer in Rathmines or Drumcondra usually has a dozen pizza or Chinese takeaways within delivery range on any app. The app shows them side by side, sorted by promotions you pay for. A direct ordering site turns a repeat customer back into your customer.

What Dublin takeaways pay the apps

Uber Eats is the only one of the three big apps that publishes its Irish restaurant rates. Checked on 6 October 2026:

RTÉ Brainstorm reported in August 2025 that the platforms take 25% to 35% of delivery orders. On a typical €25 Friday-night order, 30% is €7.50 before VAT on the commission. If 60 of your weekly orders are regulars who would happily order direct, that’s around €450 a week. Put your own numbers into the commission calculator, or read our Just Eat commission guide.

Delivering in Dublin

Dublin delivery is short-distance and high-volume. Most orders travel a few kilometres, but traffic, apartment blocks and one-way systems make the last few hundred metres slow. Three things matter:

• Fees by distance. Set delivery fee bands by distance from your shop, a minimum order, and a free-delivery threshold if you want one. The fee is calculated automatically at checkout.
• Your own drivers, with tracking. OrdFox includes driver dispatch, a driver app with proof of delivery, and live tracking for your customers. With Flipdish, driver tracking is a paid add-on.
• Employment status. In October 2023 the Supreme Court ruled that Domino’s delivery drivers in the Karshan case were employees for tax purposes. If you hire drivers in Dublin, get advice on how they’re engaged.

You don’t need drivers to start. Many Dublin takeaways begin with collection and scheduled pre-orders, then add delivery once direct orders build up.

Moving across from Flipdish, Just Eat or GloriaFood

• From Flipdish: your Flipdish menu is moved for you in 48 hours. See switching from Flipdish and our honest comparison.
• From GloriaFood: GloriaFood migration is free and done for you; your menu is back on OrdFox within 24 hours for you to review. See the GloriaFood migration page.
• Staying on Just Eat: keep it for discovery. Read Just Eat alternative for how the two sit together.

How OrdFox helps Dublin takeaways

• Your own ordering site on your own domain, and your own iOS app on the Professional plan (Android is coming soon).
• Collection and delivery, with scheduled pre-orders.
• Card payments into your own Stripe account.
• A counter and phone POS on any tablet, so phone orders and online orders sit on one screen.
• A kitchen screen on the Complete plan, with an alarm that keeps ringing until someone acknowledges the order.
• Coupons and a digital loyalty card for your regulars.
• Support in English and Portuguese.

Plans start from €45 a month billed annually (€59 monthly), ex. VAT, on a 12-month agreement. See pricing for what each plan includes.