A Menufy Alternative You Own Outright
Menufy will build a restaurant an online-ordering page at little or no cost to you - because the model is funded by a convenience fee (around $1.75) charged to your customer on each order, on a site hosted on Menufy's platform. If you'd rather not put a per-order fee in front of your diners on a page you don't own, an owned site is the alternative.
Updated August 31, 2026
How Menufy's model works
Menufy's pitch is low cost to the restaurant, and that part is real. The trade is that the diner pays a per-order convenience fee, and the ordering page lives on Menufy's platform. You get orders without a big bill; your customer gets a surcharge, and you don't own the storefront it happens on.
convenience fee charged to your diner per order
The honest gap
A fee your customer sees at checkout is friction on your own regulars, and because the page is Menufy's, the site and the relationship aren't things you can pick up and take elsewhere. It's cheap for you precisely because it isn't yours.
The owned alternative
Starvega builds the same thing a different way: a fast website with its own online ordering and a dashboard you log into, for a one-time price. There's no diner-facing convenience fee on the order, and the ordering page is your own site, not a hosted page you rent. There's no commission on orders and no monthly platform fee to keep it running - once it's live, the site, the ordering, and the customer data are yours.
That's the whole difference: you pay once for something you own, instead of renting it (or paying per order) for as long as you're in business.