Online ordering for Galway takeaways and cafés

Galway is a small city with a big calendar. Most of the year, takeaways and cafés serve students and residents; for a few weeks each summer, the city fills with visitors and every kitchen is stretched. Your own online ordering site, with scheduled pre-orders and collection slots, lets you take more of those orders without handing a share of each one to a delivery app.

Galway’s food business market in numbers

Compared with Limerick or Cork, Galway city has a high share of cafés and sit-down restaurants relative to fast-food outlets. That matters for online ordering: a café’s online orders are mostly collection and pre-orders rather than late-night delivery. The OpenStreetMap figures are a floor; smaller places are often missing.

The Galway calendar

During festival weeks, roads in and around the city centre are slow and every kitchen is busy at the same hours. Two features help most:

• Scheduled pre-orders with slot limits. Customers choose a time when they order; you set the minimum notice and how many orders each slot can take.
• Pausing orders. If the kitchen falls behind, pause ordering on your own site and switch it back on when you’ve caught up.

Gort and the Brazilian community

Census 2022 found that 13% of Gort’s population were Brazilian citizens, a figure the CSO singled out in its citizenship profile. The community grew from meat-plant workers recruited from Brazil, and today Gort has Brazilian shops and services, a weekly Mass in Portuguese and an annual quadrilha festival, according to Oi.ie.

For a Brazilian bakery, snack bar or restaurant in Gort or Galway, OrdFox has two practical advantages: support in Portuguese, and an ordering interface in Portuguese and English. Customers outside the town centre are spread out, so delivery fees calculated by distance from your shop are fairer than a single flat fee. There’s a Portuguese version of this page and a page for Brazilian restaurants.

What the apps cost

Uber Eats publishes its Irish rates: 30% when Uber delivers (33% on Uber One orders) and 13% when you deliver or the customer collects, plus a €650 activation fee (checked on 6 October 2026). On a €22 lunch order, 30% is €6.60. Try your own figures in the commission calculator.

How OrdFox helps Galway takeaways and cafés

• Your own ordering site on your own domain; your own iOS app on the Professional plan (Android is coming soon).
• Collection and delivery, with scheduled pre-orders and slot limits.
• Delivery fees calculated automatically by distance, with your own drivers, a driver app and live tracking included.
• Card payments into your own Stripe account.
• A counter and phone POS on any tablet, and a kitchen screen on the Complete plan.
• Support in English and Portuguese.

Your Flipdish menu is moved for you in 48 hours (switching from Flipdish). Plans start from €45 a month billed annually (€59 monthly), ex. VAT, on a 12-month agreement; setup is tailored and quoted before you commit. See pricing.