WebEatery vs. GloriaFood

GloriaFood has been discontinued by Oracle and is closed to new signups. So this isn't really a comparison—there's no version of it where you weigh the two and pick. What's left is a migration question: when to move, and what you need to take with you.

What Oracle Has Said

GloriaFood, owned by Oracle since 2021, has been discontinued. Its own homepage says so: "GloriaFood has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new signups. We are fully committed to supporting our existing customers throughout this transition." The branded mobile app it once sold as a paid add-on is no longer listed, and it never had native email or SMS marketing. Existing restaurants keep running for now, but no new ones can join, and the platform has no future to plan around.

Oracle has committed to supporting existing restaurants through the transition, so nothing breaks tomorrow. But a platform closed to new customers is a platform without a roadmap. The integrations won't deepen, the features won't ship, and at some point the support window closes.

You'll be told a date. Move before you're moving to a deadline.

Export Your Data First

Do this before anything else, whatever you decide.

Your menu, your customer list, and your order history are the things that don't rebuild themselves, and the worst version of this is discovering what you can't get out on the day you need it. Export now, while the account is healthy and support is responsive.

The restaurant owns its customer data. WebEatery processes that data on the restaurant's behalf to provide and improve the service, and never sells it or uses it to market to the restaurant's customers.

What Moving to WebEatery Looks Like

You'll need these:

a logo and brand colors, the current menu (imported from a Clover or Square POS, an existing online menu, or provided directly), basic business details for the App Store and Google Play listings, and an order-notification preference

Then the storefront goes up:

The online ordering storefront can be live in a matter of hours.

And the apps follow, on their own clock, because Apple and Google review every submission:

The branded mobile apps are usually live in a week or two—menu setup, customization, and App Store and Google Play review set the timeline.

What You Gain in the Move

GloriaFood's free tier was genuinely good, and it's fair to say plainly that WebEatery costs money where GloriaFood didn't. What $165 a month buys you is the part GloriaFood charged extra for and then withdrew:

$165/month for the first location

Your storefront as mobile apps for iOS and Android, listed on the App Store and Google Play, branded with your restaurant's name, logo, and colors.

The branded app was a $59-a-month add-on on GloriaFood before it disappeared from the price list. Here it's in the base rate, along with rewards, print marketing, and delivery.

Customers pay the restaurant's menu price—WebEatery adds no service fee.

Where GloriaFood Was the Better Choice

It was free, and for a small restaurant taking a handful of online orders a week, free is hard to argue with. The ordering widget worked, the menu builder was straightforward, and the WordPress plugin made it a quick job to add ordering to a site you already had.

If your online volume is genuinely tiny, the honest advice is to look at the free direct-ordering pages the marketplaces now offer before you look at us. We're worth $165 a month when the orders are there to justify it.

The Short Version