GloriaFood vs Menufy

GloriaFood and Menufy both give an independent restaurant commission-free direct ordering, which is exactly what you want when a marketplace order costs 30-40% of revenue. Where they split is who does the work and who pays. GloriaFood has a genuinely free core: unlimited orders for delivery, takeaway, and dine-in, plus QR on-premise ordering and table reservations, with paid add-ons only when you want online payments, a branded app, or a sales-optimized website. Menufy is done-for-you: it builds and manages your ordering website and helps run your Google presence, and bundles loyalty, marketing, and reporting into a flat monthly fee.

So the honest framing on a 3-5% net margin business, where nine in ten restaurants are small, is a trade between free-but-DIY and paid-but-handled. GloriaFood costs nothing to start and asks you to set it up and run it, with payment processing around 2% and a branded app near $59 a month if you add them. Menufy charges a flat plan (roughly $149 a month annually, up to $179 month-to-month) with no per-order commission to you, though your customers pay a small convenience fee, and in return the setup and the marketing largely run themselves. Neither is truly AI despite the pitch: both lean on rules-based automation, not machine learning, so judge them on cost, effort, and what is bundled.