Our value · Independent UK restaurants Your work. Your margin.
On a £20 order that Just Eat delivers, the restaurant pays £7.20 in commission before a single ingredient, wage or bill is paid.1 The rate is the same on a full Saturday as on a quiet Tuesday.
A cut of every order, before the food
£650 before the first order
Uber Eats charges an activation fee of £650, excluding VAT, which covers:2
The busier you get, the more you pay
A percentage grows with every order you take. Your food, wages and rent do not fall to match.
What each platform takes
In the platforms’ own words, from their UK pages for restaurants. Where a platform publishes no figure, the table says so rather than guessing.
| Platform | How the order is fulfilled | What the restaurant pays | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just Eat | Just Eat delivers | 30% commission + VAT. On a £20 order: £7.20 (£6.00 + £1.20 VAT) | 1 |
| Just Eat | Your own drivers | 14% commission + VAT. On a £20 order: £3.36 (£2.80 + 56p VAT) | 1 |
| Uber Eats | Uber delivers | 30% delivery fee, 33% for Uber One members, excluding VAT. Activation fee £650 excluding VAT | 2 |
| Uber Eats | Self-delivery or pick-up | 13%, excluding VAT | 2 |
| Deliveroo | Pickup | “12% commission on Pickup orders” | 3 |
| Deliveroo | Delivery | No percentage published: “a simple commission on completed orders” | 4 |
| OpenTable | Table bookings | “Contact us for pricing”; cover fees on diners who find you through OpenTable’s network; a one-year contract that auto-renews | 5 |
| TableSpark | Your own site: bookings, collection, delivery and table ordering | A flat monthly plan from £19, excluding VAT. 0% TableSpark commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments | 7 8 |
Commission on a delivered order also pays for the platform’s rider. On your own site you choose collection, your own delivery, table ordering or all three, every order at 0% TableSpark commission.
Why it does not add up
Your costs are already climbing
The National Living Wage rose to £12.71 an hour on 1 April 2026.9 Restaurant and hotel prices rose 3.8% in the year to September 2026,10 so guests are already paying more before any platform takes its share.
Why it does not add up
The sector has little room left
Accommodation and food service had the highest business insolvency rate of any sector in 2025: 268 per 10,000 businesses, a figure that includes hotels and pubs.11 Britain had 382 fewer licensed venues at the end of December 2025 than at the end of September.12
Why it does not add up
A few platforms, most of the market
In 2024 Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo handled 27.2%, 25.2% and 16.2% of UK delivery occasions.13 DoorDash completed its acquisition of Deliveroo on 2 October 2025.14 In our view, the fewer the owners, the less room a single restaurant has to negotiate.
Why a flat price works
You build it yourself
Photograph your menu and TableSpark drafts the whole site from it, with dishes, prices and sections, on one of 50 finished designs. No implementation team bills you for hours, so their cost is not in your price.
See the menu scan, step by step
Why a flat price works
Published prices, no sales calls
Selling software is expensive: the median private software company spends 15% of its annual recurring revenue on selling.16 Our prices are on one page and you start free, so a sales team is not built into what you pay.
See the prices
Why a flat price works
An extra order costs us almost nothing
Every restaurant runs on one shared platform, so an extra booking or order adds almost nothing to our costs and we do not charge for it. Card payments settle in your own Stripe account at Stripe’s standard rates.8
See online ordering, step by step
What we believe
Your guests are yours
Every booking, order and sign-up is recorded under your restaurant’s account, visible in your Inbox and guest list, and exportable as CSV whenever you like. With no commission to recover, the price on your own site can be the price in your dining room.
What we believe
Simple enough to learn between services
Every task is recorded click by click on a real restaurant’s account in the Tutorial, with short films beside the steps. A full Saturday costs what a quiet Tuesday costs, and the plan does not change with your takings.
Open the Tutorial
What you would keep
Put your own figures in. The buttons are the published rates in the table above.
Arithmetic on the figures shown, excluding VAT, and not a quote. The starting figures are an example, so replace them with your own. Stripe fees use Stripe’s standard rate for UK cards, 1.5% + 20p.8 Delivery by your own staff, if you offer it, is your own cost.
Take orders and bookings direct
Every part of TableSpark runs on the one flat plan, at 0% TableSpark commission.
StarterFrom £19a month, excluding VAT
Every plan, 0% TableSpark commission
Starter is £19 a month, Growth £39 and Full £69, all excluding VAT. For an independent UK restaurant, TableSpark is the best-value way to take bookings and orders direct, and the one we recommend; the full cost comparison sets out the published terms.
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Starter the website, live menu, QR menu and managed search readiness
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Growth live-availability bookings, deposits, reminders and the Guest App
- 03
Full online ordering, table QR ordering and buffet mode on your own site
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Every plan your guest list under your account, with CSV export
Prices exclude VAT. 0% TableSpark commission on the bookings and orders your plan includes. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.
Questions owners ask
What owners ask before they switch it on: how it works, which plan carries it, and what changes for the team.
Do I have to leave the delivery apps to use TableSpark?
No. You can start by moving your regulars, your collection orders and your table orders to your own site, where every order is at 0% TableSpark commission, and decide the rest at your own pace.
What does TableSpark take from an order?
Nothing. TableSpark charges a flat monthly plan and 0% TableSpark commission. Card payments settle in your own Stripe account, and Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.
Where do the platform figures come from?
From each platform’s own UK page for restaurants, quoted as published and checked on the date shown in the sources. If a platform changes its terms, the page it publishes is the one that counts.
Sources
- Just Eat, restaurants.just-eat.co.uk: 30% commission where Just Eat delivers, 14% with your own drivers, plus VAT. Checked 3 November 2026.
- Uber Eats, merchants.ubereats.com/gb/en/pricing: Uber Delivery 30% (33% for Uber One members), Self-Delivery 13%, Pick-up 13%, excluding VAT; activation fee £650 excluding VAT. Checked 3 November 2026.
- Deliveroo, go.deliveroo.com/pickup: “12% commission on Pickup orders”. Checked 3 November 2026.
- Deliveroo, merchants.deliveroo.com: “a simple commission on completed orders”, no percentage published. Checked 3 November 2026.
- OpenTable UK plans page, as quoted with screenshots on our OpenTable comparison. Checked 22 October 2026.
- NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Restaurants Using Delivery Apps. Checked 3 November 2026.
- TableSpark, pricing. Prices exclude VAT.
- Stripe, stripe.com/gb/pricing: 1.5% + 20p for standard UK cards. Checked 3 November 2026.
- GOV.UK, National Living Wage increases to £12.71 per hour, 1 April 2026.
- Office for National Statistics, Consumer price inflation, UK: September 2026.
- The Insolvency Service, Business insolvency demography 2015 to 2025.
- NIQ Hospitality Market Monitor, Hospitality closures accelerate in fourth quarter, January 2026.
- Lumina Intelligence, UK food delivery market shares, June 2025.
- DoorDash, DoorDash Completes Acquisition of Deliveroo, 2 October 2025.
- Deliveroo plc, 2024 preliminary results, 13 March 2025: profit for the year of £3 million, against a loss of £32 million in 2023.
- SaaS Capital, Spending benchmarks for private SaaS companies, 2026: median selling costs of 15% of annual recurring revenue.
Keep what you earn
Build the whole site free, publish when you are ready, and keep every booking and order at 0% TableSpark commission.
- Bookings, online orders and payments land in one place.
- Till, kitchen screen and cash-up on the same login.
- Guest records, email and loyalty that bring people back.