Local Eats

Local Eats is an online food-ordering and delivery platform in the style of the big aggregators, only built locally. Instead of one nationwide app, each town or region gets its own brand, website, and mobile app run by a local partner. It differs from the big aggregators in that restaurants deal with someone who genuinely knows their area, and commissions tend to be fairer — which, in a segment where restaurants are squeezed by high fees, is the main selling point.

As a franchisee you get a license to the Local Eats technology and brand, a ready-made ordering platform (website and customer apps), driver integration, and support in signing up your first restaurants. The parent company handles development, server operations, the payment gateway, and updates — the software is entirely its responsibility. What stays on you is the fieldwork: approaching and signing local restaurants, sorting out delivery, kick-starting local marketing, and keeping both sides happy. It's a model that's light on upfront cost but heavy on sales and relationship work.