About nodash

Here's a number that should piss you off: 30%.

That's the cut DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub take from your neighborhood restaurant on every order. Not 30% of profit — 30% of the total. On a $40 order, the restaurant might see $28. After food costs, labor, rent? They're basically paying for the privilege of cooking your pad thai.

And you're not saving money either. You're paying a delivery fee, a service fee, a "small order" fee, and a tip — which, by the way, sometimes doesn't even go to the driver.

We built nodash because we got tired of it.

Not tired in a vague, "someone should do something" way. Tired in a "we live in New York, we order food four times a week, and we realized we were actively participating in a system that's bleeding our favorite restaurants dry" way.

So we did something pretty simple: we started checking restaurants. We asked one question — do you deliver direct? If the answer was yes, we wrote down how. Phone call? Their own website? Toast? Slice? A guy named Mike on a bicycle? Whatever it is, we listed it.

Three thousand and sixty-seven restaurants later, here we are.

nodash is a directory. That's it. You search by neighborhood, you find restaurants that deliver without a middleman, you see the delivery fee, the minimum order, and the phone number. Then you order however they want you to order. We don't process payments. We don't take a cut. We don't have an app, and we're not going to build one.

This is not a startup. Nobody's trying to "disrupt" delivery. The restaurants already figured out delivery — they've been doing it since before Travis Kalanick learned to spell "independent contractor." They just need people to find them without going through an app that charges everyone on both sides of the transaction.

Every restaurant on nodash is listed for free. If you run a restaurant in NYC and you deliver direct, you should be on here. If you're a person who eats food and lives in New York, you should be using this instead of giving 30% of your dinner to a company that's never turned a profit.

Order direct. Skip the cut. It's not complicated.