GloriaFood Alternative: The Best Replacements Before GloriaFood Shuts Down
GloriaFood is shutting down on 30 April 2027
GloriaFood, which Oracle acquired, stops operating on 30 April 2027. If you take online orders through it, you need something else up and running before then.
Below are the main GloriaFood alternatives for restaurants in the UK and Ireland, what to check before you pick one, and how to move over without losing your regulars.
What GloriaFood did
GloriaFood gave independent restaurants a free or cheap way to take online orders through a widget on their website. No commission fees, which is why so many independent takeaways and small restaurants used it.
It also had gaps:
- Limited POS integration
- No branded mobile app
- No loyalty or marketing tools
- Basic analytics
- You depended on someone else's platform. That risk has now landed.
What to look for in a GloriaFood replacement
Work out what you actually need before you start comparing:
- Direct online ordering with no per-order commission
- POS integration, so orders go straight to the kitchen
- A branded website, and ideally a branded app
- Your own customer data - email addresses, order history, preferences
- Loyalty and marketing tools to keep customers coming back
- Support based in the UK or Ireland from people who know your market
You're moving anyway. Might as well move to something that does more than GloriaFood did.
The best GloriaFood alternatives for restaurants
1. Flipdish
Flipdish is the strongest GloriaFood replacement for restaurants in the UK and Ireland. It does direct online ordering, branded restaurant websites, branded mobile apps, a restaurant POS system and AI-powered marketing, all in one platform.
What you get:
- No per-order commission
- Ordering under your own name, not Flipdish's
- Self-service kiosks for in-restaurant orders
- Your customer data, plus built-in marketing tools to actually use it
- AI phone ordering so you don't miss phone orders
- Thousands of restaurants across Ireland and the UK already on it
- Dedicated onboarding and local support
Flipdish is built for restaurants, takeaways, QSRs and multi-location groups. That's most of the people who were on GloriaFood.
2. Hungrrr
UK-based online ordering with branded apps. Smaller than Flipdish, with fewer POS and marketing integrations. Fine for a simple setup.
3. Square Online
Square does online ordering as part of its payments and POS system. It works if your setup is simple. It doesn't go as deep on restaurant features as Flipdish, and its loyalty and multi-location support are weaker.
4. Deliverect
Deliverect connects marketplaces to your POS. It isn't a direct ordering system. Handy if you're juggling several marketplaces alongside your own orders, but it won't give you a direct ordering channel, so on its own it doesn't replace GloriaFood.
5. Just Eat and Deliveroo
Marketplaces bring in new customers. They also take commission on every order and keep the customer data. Not a like-for-like swap.
Why GloriaFood users should migrate early
30 April 2027 gives you enough time to do this properly. Don't leave it until March.
A proper migration looks like this:
- Set up the new ordering channel (website, app or both)
- Test the order flow end to end
- Tell your existing customers about the change
- Run a reactivation offer to get them ordering on the new channel
- Take the GloriaFood widget off your website
Move early and you'll already have a customer list when GloriaFood switches off. Leave it late and you start from zero.
How Flipdish handles the migration
Flipdish's onboarding team does the setup, builds your menu and gets you live. Most restaurants are live within a few weeks. Customer data is captured from the first order, so you're building your own list straight away.