FoodyOS vs Owner.com.
Owner.com is a strong online-ordering, website, and marketing platform for delivery-heavy independents — priced at $249/mo plus 5% per order, or $499/mo flat, with guests paying an additional 5% order support fee at checkout on both plans. FoodyOS covers the whole operation — POS, KDS, website, online ordering, delivery dispatch, reservations, loyalty, printing — in one flat $149/mo plan with no per-order fees and no guest surcharge.
Two different bets on what a restaurant needs
Owner.com’s bet is growth-as-a-service: a done-for-you, SEO-optimized website, branded online ordering, and managed retention marketing, sold as a subscription. Its pricing page (as of June 2026) lists a Flexible plan at $249/mo plus a 5% restaurant fee per order, and a Flat Rate plan at $499/mo with no per-order restaurant fees, positioned for restaurants doing $5,000+/mo in online sales. Both are month-to-month with no cancellation fees — and on both, guests pay a 5% order support fee at checkout. Payment processing rates are not published.
FoodyOS’s bet is the whole operation in one system: the same $149/mo flat plan includes the POS, kitchen display, custom-domain website with commission-free ordering, in-house delivery dispatch, hostess + reservations, inventory, ESC/POS printing, and Apple Wallet loyalty. Checkout runs on your own Stripe account, so payouts settle direct to your bank at Stripe’s published rates with no resold markup — and your guests pay your menu price with no platform surcharge added.
Side by side
| Criterion | FoodyOS | Owner.com |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $149/mo flat per restaurant, every module included | $249/mo + 5% restaurant fee per order (Flexible) or $499/mo (Flat Rate) |
| Per-order fees charged to the restaurant | None — 0% commission on direct orders | 5% per order on Flexible; none on Flat Rate |
| Guest surcharge at checkout | None — guests pay your menu price | 5% order support fee paid by guests on both plans |
| POS + kitchen display (KDS) | Included in the flat plan | Not listed on the pricing page — you keep a separate POS |
| In-house delivery dispatch | Included — assign and track your own drivers | Ordering-focused platform; no in-house driver dispatch tooling listed on the pricing page |
| Loyalty | Included — branded Apple Wallet pass, points auto-update over the air | Marketing and repeat-customer tooling is core to Owner.com's pitch, bundled in its plans |
| Restaurant website | Included — three templates, custom-domain-ready, synced to the same dashboard as your POS | Included — done-for-you, SEO-optimized website is Owner.com's core offering |
| Payment processing transparency | Your own Stripe account — payouts settle direct to your bank at Stripe's published rates, no resold markup | Processing rates not published on the pricing page |
How to read the per-order math: at $5,000/mo in online sales — the threshold where Owner.com itself positions the Flat Rate plan — the Flexible plan’s 5% restaurant fee is $250/mo on top of the $249 subscription, which is why the $499 flat plan exists. On either plan, your guests still pay the separate 5% order support fee at checkout. For full bundle math against other vendors, use the live cost calculator.
When each one is the right call
Pick Owner.com if marketing is your bottleneck and you want it done for you. Its core product is an aggressive, managed growth engine — an SEO-optimized website built and tuned by their team, plus retention marketing run on your behalf — and for a delivery-heavy independent with no marketing staff, that service is a real, honest advantage FoodyOS does not try to match. You keep your existing POS and bolt Owner.com on top as the growth layer.
Pick FoodyOS if you want one system running the whole restaurant instead of a growth layer on top of a separate stack. The website and ordering come from the same dashboard as the POS — 86 an ingredient and the affected items drop off the public menu automatically — and the all-in price is $149/mo flat with no per-order fees, no guest checkout surcharge, and your own Stripe account behind every payment. See the full website build on the restaurant website deep-dive.
What FoodyOS replaces
Owner.com sits alongside the rest of your stack; FoodyOS is the stack. Inside the one $149/mo plan:
| FoodyOS capability | Instead of |
|---|---|
| Custom-domain website + commission-free online ordering | An Owner.com subscription at $249–$499/mo plus the 5% guest order support fee |
| POS + kitchen display | The separate POS you keep paying for next to Owner.com |
| In-house delivery dispatch | A standalone driver-management tool |
| Apple Wallet loyalty | A separate loyalty subscription |
| Your own Stripe account on checkout | Unpublished platform processing rates |
Want the math against Toast, Square, Clover, and Lightspeed too? Open the side-by-side cost calculator or see the single-plan breakdown on our pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
- How much does Owner.com cost?
- Owner.com publishes two plans on its pricing page (as of June 2026): a Flexible plan at $249/mo plus a 5% restaurant fee per order, and a Flat Rate plan at $499/mo with no per-order restaurant fees, which Owner.com positions for restaurants doing $5,000+/mo in online sales. Both plans are month-to-month with no cancellation fees. Payment processing rates are not published on the pricing page. FoodyOS is $149/mo flat per restaurant with every module included and no per-order fees.
- Does Owner.com charge per order?
- On the Flexible plan, yes — Owner.com's pricing page lists a 5% restaurant fee per order on top of the $249/mo subscription. The $499/mo Flat Rate plan removes restaurant per-order fees. On both plans, guests separately pay a 5% order support fee at checkout. FoodyOS charges no per-order platform fee on direct orders — 0% commission, with checkout running on your own Stripe account.
- Do my customers pay extra with Owner.com?
- Yes. On both Owner.com plans — Flexible and Flat Rate — guests pay a 5% order support fee at checkout, per Owner.com's own pricing page (as of June 2026). That fee is added on top of your menu prices, so your customers see it on every online order. FoodyOS adds no platform surcharge to your guests' checkout — customers pay your menu price, and the only processing cost is your own Stripe account's published rates.
- Does Owner.com include a POS?
- Owner.com's pricing page does not list a POS or kitchen display system — it is a website, online-ordering, and marketing platform, so you keep running a separate POS alongside it and pay for that separately. FoodyOS includes the POS and KDS in the same flat $149/mo plan as the website and online ordering, along with in-house delivery dispatch, hostess + reservations, inventory, ESC/POS printing, and Apple Wallet loyalty.
- When is Owner.com the better choice?
- If your single biggest problem is top-of-funnel growth and you want a vendor to run it for you, Owner.com is a genuinely strong pick: its pitch centers on done-for-you, SEO-optimized restaurant websites and managed retention marketing, and that hands-on service is real value for a delivery-heavy independent without a marketing team. FoodyOS is the better fit if you want one system to run the whole operation — POS, KDS, website, ordering, dispatch, reservations, loyalty, printing — at $149/mo flat with no per-order fees and no 5% guest checkout fee.
- How do I switch from Owner.com to FoodyOS?
- Owner.com is month-to-month with no cancellation fees, per its pricing page, so there is no contract lock-in to escape. On the FoodyOS side, onboarding is white-glove as a service: we rebuild your menu in the dashboard, spin up your custom-domain-ready website from one of three templates, connect your own Stripe account for checkout, and set up ESC/POS printing through the free iOS and Android apps on tablets you already own. Book a demo and we will walk the migration end to end on your actual menu.
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- Owner.com pricing — Flexible $249/mo + 5% restaurant fee per order, Flat Rate $499/mo, 5% guest order support fee on both plans, month-to-month with no cancellation fees — owner.com/pricing (retrieved June 10, 2026)
- FoodyOS pricing — $149/mo flat, every module included — foodyos.com/us/pricing