Local Eats builds you a fully branded food ordering app and website for your area, then runs the technology, payments and support behind it. You sign up local takeaways, and you earn on every order they take.
Just Eat and Uber Eats both take 30% of every order they deliver for an independent takeaway, and 13 to 14% even when the takeaway delivers it themselves.* Deliveroo will not say what it charges. Since October 2025 all three are foreign-owned, so that commission leaves the town for good. A Local Eats operator charges a fraction of it, answers the phone when a restaurant calls, and keeps the money circulating locally. That is why takeaways switch, and why their customers follow.
* Just Eat UK partner sign-up page and Uber Eats UK merchant pricing, September 2026: 14% and 13% respectively when the takeaway delivers, 30% when the platform delivers, before VAT and admin fees. Deliveroo publishes no rate. Local Eats recommends a commission level for each new territory.
Tell us your town or postcode. If it is free, it is yours: one operator per territory, protected on our map. Most areas under 150,000 people qualify for the standard licence.
Our design team creates a brand that sounds like your town. Then we build your iOS and Android apps, ordering website and back office. You are typically ready to launch in three to six weeks.
You walk into local takeaways with a better deal than the national apps. We handle contracts, invoicing, payments and the support desk. Orders start, and you are paid every week.
A complete food ordering business, built and supported for you. Your job is the part software cannot do: knowing your town and talking to the people who run its takeaways.
iOS and Android apps plus a desktop ordering site, with real-time order tracking, push notifications, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Logo, app icon, colours and marketing templates designed for your area, so it feels local because it is.
Restaurant agreements, automated invoicing and payment processing are all run centrally. You concentrate on growing.
Telephone and email support for you, your customers and your restaurants, so you never need to hire anyone.
One licence per area, protected on the Local Eats territory map. Nobody else can open a Local Eats platform in your patch.
Launch campaigns and tested local promotions from towns that have already done it, ready for you to adapt.
Move the sliders. The maths uses a conservative estimate of what a licensee keeps on each order, and there are no monthly fees to subtract.
An illustration you control, not a forecast. Real results depend on the takeaways you sign and what they sell.
Illustrative, not a forecast. Figures are gross earnings before your own local marketing spend and card fees, and depend on the takeaways you sign and the orders they take. The established towns shown below took 12 to 24 months to reach their current volumes.
The founders’ own town, then two licensees who started with nothing but local knowledge. All figures are the ones Local Eats publishes in its brochure.
The founders’ pilot, since 2017Run by Local Eats founders Sam and Scott. The model was proven here for two years before a single licence was sold.
“Takeaways quickly ditched national chains due to our lower commission levels. Customers love to support local businesses and keep money in their local area.”
Now the market leader for takeaway orders in Barrow
Licensee since 2020Run by Oliver, who took a second town, Lancaster, within months
“We beat all the market leaders on price and technology so signing takeaways and restaurants is easy, and locals love getting behind a local business that gives back to their area.”
Had never marketed online or worked in sales before
The largest territory licensedRun by Benson, Blackpool
“As Local Eats run my admin and support as part of my licence, I’m free to concentrate on marketing and onboarding takeaways.”
The most takeaways of any Local Eats town
As someone who had never marketed online or been a salesman before, I was nervous I wouldn’t have the skillset. But the technology and model sells itself.Oliver, licensee for Morecambe Eats and Lancaster Eats
We would rather tell you now than waste your time on a call. This is a real business that needs real money and real effort. It is also one that people with no experience have made work.
One payment, with no monthly platform fee and no royalty on what you earn.
The standard licence covers areas of up to about 150,000 people. Larger territories are priced individually. Full licence terms are provided in writing before you pay anything.
Everyone in Barrow used Just Eat before Barrow Eats launched. Everyone in Blackpool used Just Eat before Blackpool Eats launched. Everyone in Lancaster used Just Eat before Lancaster Eats launched. You get the picture.
Because your takeaways pay far less commission, they can afford to offer exclusive deals on your platform that they simply cannot offer on the national apps. Local operators also tend to list more of the town’s takeaways than the majors do, and people like supporting a local business. Barrow Eats now lists 127 takeaways and has 68,000 registered customers.
No. Takeaways use their own drivers, or the platform integrates directly with delivery networks including Uber Direct, Stuart, Nash and Shipday. You never need drivers, vehicles or a delivery operation of your own.
It is a licence. You buy the exclusive right to operate the Local Eats platform in your area under your own local brand for a one-off fee. There is no monthly platform fee and no royalty on your earnings. The full terms are provided in writing before you commit.
You earn a commission on every order placed through your app and website. The more takeaways you sign and the more orders they take, the more you earn. Licensees are paid every week. Use the calculator above to see how the numbers move.
Once your licence is secured and your branding agreed, your app, website and back office are typically ready within three weeks. In practice most operators launch within three to six weeks, using that time to sign their first takeaways so there is something to order from on day one.
Several licensees started exactly there. Oliver, who now runs Morecambe Eats and Lancaster Eats, had never marketed online or worked in sales before his first licence. The offer you take into a takeaway is simply better than what the national apps give them, and the marketing playbook is already written.
What you do need is local knowledge, the confidence to have a conversation with a takeaway owner, and the drive to build something of your own.
Local Eats runs your invoicing, contracts, payment processing and a telephone and email support desk for you, your customers and your restaurants, so you never need to hire staff. You also get ongoing marketing support and the campaigns that have already worked in other Local Eats towns.
We check whether your area is available, send you the brochure, and book a short introductory call. If you both want to go ahead, you choose your area, we prepare your package, and you secure your licence. There is no obligation at any point before that.
Takes 60 seconds. We will confirm whether your area is free, send you the brochure, and book a short introductory call. Most of the Midlands, East Anglia and the South of England are still open.
