GloriaFood is shutting down on April 30, 2027. If you searched for GloriaFood alternatives, you've already read the news — what you need now is a comparison that doesn't read like a press release. This is that comparison.
We've used most of these tools, talked to restaurants on each of them, and ranked them on what actually matters when you're migrating: commission structure, branded domain support, POS integration, real free tier, setup time, and who they're realistically for. We rank Fleksa #1 because we built it and we think it's the closest direct replacement — but we'll also tell you exactly when it's the wrong choice and which tool to pick instead.
How we compared them
Seven options made the shortlist after testing roughly a dozen. The criteria:
- Commission % on pickup and delivery orders.
- Branded domain support — do you keep your own URL, or are you on
yourshop.platform.com? - POS integration — do they connect to Toast, Square, SambaPOS, Lieferando, Wolt?
- White-label option for agencies and franchise groups.
- Real free tier — not "free trial," not "free for pickup only with a $30 delivery upcharge."
- Setup time — how fast can a non-technical owner get the first order live?
- Who it's for — be honest. Not everyone needs the same tool.
We left out tools that are clearly winding down themselves, tools with no published pricing, and tools where the export workflow looks worse than GloriaFood's.
The comparison at a glance
| Tool | Commission | Branded Domain | POS Integration | White-Label | Real Free Tier | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleksa | 0% | Yes | Toast, Square, SambaPOS, Lieferando, Wolt | Yes | Yes (forever) | ~30 min |
| Flipdish | Variable + monthly fee | Yes | Limited | No | No | 1–2 days |
| ChowNow | $0 commission, ~$150/mo | Yes | Toast, Square | No | No | 1 day |
| Restolabs | 0% | Yes | Limited | Limited | Free trial only | ~1 hour |
| CloudWaitress | 0% (subscription) | Yes | Square, others | Yes | Free trial only | 2–3 hours |
| OlaClick | 0% | Limited | Limited | No | Yes (basic) | ~30 min |
| Toast Online Ordering | 0% (bundled with POS) | Yes | Native (Toast only) | No | No | Days–weeks |
Now the detail.
1. Fleksa — closest direct replacement (and what we'd pick)
Best for: independent restaurants with 1–5 locations, brand-focused operators, anyone in DACH or Europe. Commission: 0% on pickup and delivery. Branded domain: yes, included.
Fleksa is the closest one-to-one replacement for a restaurant that used GloriaFood for direct ordering on its own site. You get a branded domain (yourshop.com), 0% commission on both pickup and delivery, real multi-device kitchen view (the thing GloriaFood owners complained about for years), and POS integrations with Toast, Square, SambaPOS, and the European marketplaces (Lieferando, Wolt). Setup is roughly 30 minutes if you have your menu export.
The reason we put Fleksa first is the same reason restaurants are migrating to it: the structural fit is identical to GloriaFood (free website ordering, owner keeps the customer list, no commission siphon) but the limits that frustrated GloriaFood owners — one tablet, percentage-only discounts, no time-based menus, mandatory account creation at checkout — are not there.
"Limited to only one tablet — no front-of-house + kitchen split. Cited as #1 complaint."
That single complaint from the SambaPOS forum is what most of the alternatives in this list still haven't fixed. Multi-device order routing matters the day you have two people in the kitchen.
Caveats, in plain English:
- If you only need a Facebook-only order widget and never want a website, see option 5 (OlaClick) — it's lighter.
- If you're a 30+ location chain that needs deep enterprise POS integration only Toast provides, see option 7.
- If you're a one-person ghost kitchen testing the concept this weekend, you can use Fleksa's free tier, but Restolabs (option 4) has an even faster setup if you only need pickup.
Start free on Fleksa — we'll help you import your menu from GloriaFood before it goes dark on April 30, 2027.
2. Flipdish
Best for: mid-market chains in the UK and Ireland that want a managed setup. Commission: variable percentage plus a monthly platform fee. Branded domain: yes.
Flipdish is well-funded, polished, and aggressively pitched to the same restaurants Oracle abandoned. The setup is more hands-on than Fleksa or Restolabs — expect 1–2 days with a customer success rep walking you through. POS integrations are limited compared to Toast or Fleksa, and there's no real white-label option, so agencies running 10+ client sites should skip this one.
The pricing is opaque (variable commission plus monthly fee), which is a recurring complaint in the Capterra reviews. If you're a 5+ location group, get a written quote before signing — the contract can be longer than you expect.
3. ChowNow
Best for: US single-location restaurants that want predictable monthly pricing instead of commission. Commission: 0% commission, roughly $150/month flat (varies by tier). Branded domain: yes.
ChowNow's pitch is the opposite of GloriaFood's: pay a predictable monthly fee instead of a per-order commission. For a restaurant doing 800+ orders a month, that math works. For a place doing 100 orders a month, it doesn't — you'd be paying $1.50 per order, which is worse than the percentage commissions you were trying to avoid.
Integrations with Toast and Square are real and well-maintained. The mobile app for customers is one of the better ones. The setup process is guided and takes about a day. ChowNow is the right answer for US restaurants with steady high volume that hate the unpredictability of commission. It is the wrong answer if you're a low-volume independent or anywhere outside the US.
4. Restolabs
Best for: independents who want something live in an hour without a sales call. Commission: 0%. Branded domain: yes.
Restolabs is the self-serve option. You sign up, build your menu, and you're live. There's no customer success call, no contract, no "let's get on a 30-minute demo first." That's also its limitation: support is thinner than Fleksa or ChowNow, POS integrations are limited, and the white-label feature exists but is light compared to a serious agency-grade product.
For an owner who wants the fastest path from "GloriaFood email arrived" to "first order on the new system tonight," Restolabs is a real contender. It's the option we'd recommend to a friend running a single takeaway who needs ordering up before next weekend's shift.
5. CloudWaitress
Best for: restaurants that want a subscription-only model with no per-order fees and full feature control. Commission: 0% (subscription only). Branded domain: yes.
CloudWaitress is the engineer's pick. Deep configuration options, table ordering, QR codes, kitchen display, integrations with Square. The trade-off is the learning curve — setup takes 2–3 hours and the admin panel is denser than the others on this list. Agencies and franchise managers like it for the same reason owners sometimes don't: every setting is exposed.
If your GloriaFood pain point was "the product is too rigid and never gets new features," CloudWaitress is the swing in the opposite direction.
6. OlaClick
Best for: Latin American restaurants and small operators in markets where WhatsApp is the primary channel. Commission: 0%. Branded domain: limited (most operators run on yourshop.olaclick.app).
OlaClick has built a serious following in LatAm and the Spanish-speaking world. The free tier is real, the WhatsApp ordering integration is genuinely useful in markets where WhatsApp is how customers actually order, and the setup is fast. The limitation: branded domain support is light, POS integrations are limited, and outside LatAm the support and feature pace lag behind the US/EU options.
For a restaurant in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, or Chile that was on GloriaFood's free tier, OlaClick is probably the most natural switch. Outside those markets, pick something else.
7. Toast Online Ordering
Best for: restaurants already running Toast POS, or restaurants ready to switch to Toast as the POS. Commission: 0% (bundled into the Toast POS subscription). Branded domain: yes.
This is the bundled option. If you're running Toast as your POS, Toast Online Ordering is the obvious choice — it's native, it integrates with the kitchen display you already have, and there's no separate vendor to manage. The catch is that you're committing to Toast as your POS. That's a much larger decision than picking an ordering replacement. Setup is days to weeks depending on whether you're adding to an existing Toast account or migrating to Toast from scratch.
Toast Online Ordering is not the answer for "I just want to replace GloriaFood by next month." It is the answer for "I was going to switch to Toast anyway and I might as well bundle ordering with the POS." If that's you, our complete guide to picking a restaurant POS goes deeper.
What we left out
A handful of GloriaFood-alternative posts you'll find on page one of Google are written by tools that didn't make our cut. UpMenu, Yo!Yumm, Hyperzod, Foodchow, FoodHub — most are real products, some are fine, none beat the seven above on the criteria we actually care about for a GloriaFood migrant. If you're evaluating one of them, ask the same questions: real commission, branded domain, POS integration, white-label, real free tier, setup time. If three of those answers are "kind of," move on.
While you're picking, run a free SEO scan — most GloriaFood-stack sites have major on-page gaps that won't fix themselves just by switching ordering tools. Take 10 seconds, see your score, fix the gaps on the new site before you launch.
How to pick: a decision flowchart in plain text
Use this as a quick filter before you book five demo calls.
- You want the closest one-to-one GloriaFood replacement, with a branded domain, 0% commission, and multi-device order routing. → Fleksa.
- You're in the UK or Ireland with 5–20 locations and want a managed setup. → Flipdish.
- You're in the US, doing 800+ orders a month, and want a flat monthly fee instead of commission. → ChowNow.
- You need to be live by tomorrow, single location, pickup only. → Restolabs.
- You're an engineer or franchise group that wants every setting exposed. → CloudWaitress.
- You're in Latin America and most of your orders come via WhatsApp. → OlaClick.
- You were planning to switch to Toast POS anyway. → Toast Online Ordering.
- You're an agency running 5+ client sites and need white-label. → Fleksa or CloudWaitress.
Whatever you pick, do it before October 2026. Migration tools degrade as the cutoff approaches. The owners who moved early got clean exports. The ones who waited will be the ones in the Reddit threads.
For the migration itself, our step-by-step GloriaFood migration guide walks through the export, the new-system setup, and the dual-running period. If you're specifically weighing Fleksa, read GloriaFood vs Fleksa — it's the head-to-head on the features that actually matter for a direct migration. And if you want the bigger context on what's dying and when, GloriaFood Is Shutting Down — What Restaurants Should Do Next has the timeline.
Ready to move?
If you're migrating off GloriaFood, you can set up a Fleksa restaurant for free — branded domain, real ordering, your own customer list. No commissions on pickup or delivery.
Start free on Fleksa — we'll help you import your menu from GloriaFood before it goes dark on April 30, 2027.
FAQ
What is the best GloriaFood alternative for a small independent restaurant?
For most independents migrating from GloriaFood, Fleksa is the closest one-to-one replacement — branded domain, 0% commission on pickup and delivery, multi-device kitchen view, real free tier, and POS integrations that cover Toast, Square, SambaPOS, Lieferando, and Wolt. Restolabs is a good lighter alternative if you only need pickup and want to be live in under an hour.
Is there a free GloriaFood alternative with no commission?
Yes. Fleksa offers 0% commission on pickup and delivery with a real free tier (not a trial). OlaClick has a free tier that's strong in Latin American markets where WhatsApp ordering is dominant. ChowNow is "0% commission" but charges a monthly subscription, which is only cheaper than commission tools if you're doing 800+ orders a month.
Can I keep my own domain when I switch from GloriaFood?
Yes — and you should. All of the top three options in this comparison (Fleksa, Flipdish, ChowNow) support a fully branded domain (e.g., order.yourshop.com or yourshop.com). Avoid any replacement that puts you on a subdomain of theirs — if that vendor sunsets next, you'll lose the URL too.
How much does Kyte cost compared to GloriaFood alternatives?
Kyte is priced as a monthly subscription (typically in the $20–$60/month range depending on tier and add-ons) and is positioned more as a small-business POS with online ordering than a pure GloriaFood replacement. For a restaurant migrating directly off GloriaFood, the closer comparisons are Fleksa, Flipdish, and ChowNow — all of which are built specifically around restaurant ordering rather than general small-business retail.
What's the fastest way to migrate from GloriaFood to a new system?
Export your menu, customer list, and order history from GloriaFood this weekend. Set up the new system the following weekend (most modern tools, Fleksa included, rebuild a full menu in ~30 minutes from the export). Run both in parallel for a month with the order CTA pointed at the new system. Then turn GloriaFood off. The full step-by-step is in How to Migrate From GloriaFood.
