GloriaFood Alternatives: Best Replacements Before the April 2027 Shutdown

GloriaFood is shutting down

GloriaFood is closing its platform on 30 April 2027. If you take online orders through GloriaFood, you need to be on something else by then.

The date is fixed. Leaving it late is where it goes wrong: you end up rebuilding a menu and retraining staff in a hurry, orders get missed during the changeover, and customer data can get lost along the way.

Start looking now and there's time to compare platforms properly and negotiate on price. You can move your menu and customer data across, get staff trained, and run both systems side by side for a while before turning GloriaFood off.

What GloriaFood offered

GloriaFood was an online ordering system for independent restaurants and takeaways. Restaurants took orders through a widget on their website and a branded ordering page. There was no commission on orders - you paid a flat fee if you wanted the premium features.

That's why smaller operators liked it. They got direct ordering without giving a marketplace a cut of every order, and for a lot of them it was the first direct online ordering they'd ever done.

What to look for in a GloriaFood replacement

Pricing first. People picked GloriaFood because the fee stayed flat however many orders came through. Don't swap that for a platform that takes a percentage of every order, and make sure you can see exactly what you'll pay.

The ordering page should look like your restaurant. Your name, your logo, your colours - not the platform's.

Check how menus work. You'll want to change prices, add modifiers and mark items unavailable mid-service without raising a support ticket. Ask how they import a GloriaFood menu, because re-typing a full menu by hand is a miserable way to spend a day off.

Online orders should go straight into your POS system. If staff are keying them in by hand, some will be wrong, and it's slow.

GloriaFood gave you a basic website widget and not much else. Some alternatives also do branded mobile apps and restaurant websites, so you control more of what the customer sees before they order.

Best GloriaFood alternatives for UK and Irish restaurants

1. Flipdish

Flipdish is the best GloriaFood alternative for restaurants in the UK and Ireland. It does branded online ordering, websites, mobile apps and kiosks, and all of them connect to a full restaurant POS system.

GloriaFood gave you an ordering widget. Flipdish covers most of what a restaurant actually runs on:

• Direct online ordering - commission-free, with your branding
• Branded mobile apps - your own app on iOS and Android
• Restaurant websites - built to get orders, not just list your opening hours
• Self-service kiosks - customers order in-venue without a staff member taking it
• POS system - connected to every ordering channel
• AI marketing - for getting customers who used to order through GloriaFood ordering again
• AI Phone Agent - answers the phone and takes the order

It works for independents, takeaways, cafés, QSRs and multi-site groups. Flipdish has local support in both the UK and Ireland.

2. OrderYOYO

OrderYOYO is built for takeaway and delivery businesses. It does branded online ordering and apps, mostly for independents and small chains.

3. Pepper

Pepper is a mobile ordering platform for restaurants, cafés and other hospitality businesses. It's mobile-first and puts a lot into loyalty. It suits casual dining and cafés better than full-service restaurants.

4. Bopple

Bopple does direct online ordering for restaurants and cafés. It's available in parts of the UK, but it does a lot less than a full-stack platform like Flipdish.

How to migrate from GloriaFood to Flipdish

1. Export your menu from GloriaFood. Do this before the shutdown, not after.
2. Set up your Flipdish account. The onboarding team walks you through it.
3. Rebuild the menu in Flipdish - import it, or re-enter items, prices and modifiers.
4. Pick your ordering channels: website, app, kiosk, phone, or whatever mix suits you.
5. Run both systems in parallel for a short while so staff can get used to the new one.
6. Switch over fully. Update the ordering link on your website and take the GloriaFood widget down.

Flipdish has moved restaurants off GloriaFood and other older systems before, and onboarding support comes with it.

Act before April 2027

30 April 2027 is the cutoff. Move early and you can do it at your own pace. Leave it late and you'll be training staff and testing the new setup in a rush.

Contact Flipdish to start moving off GloriaFood.