Making Delivery and Online Profitable for Restaurants
Sauce combines premium commission-free delivery, advanced logistics, and a seamless guest experience to help restaurants earn more on every order
an end-to-end online ordering and delivery platform helping restaurants become more profitable
- Maximize your Profits, Eliminate Commissions
- SEO-Powered Website Ordering
- Utilize your Google and Apple Listings to Bring Orders
- Access to Mulitiple Fleets, Unlimited Drivers
- Managed Delivery: Faster, Fewer Errors
- AI-based Algorithm to Select Best Placed Courier
Re-Ordering
- AI-Powered Retention to Boost Reordering
- Engage Customers with Timely, Automated Offers
- "Hands Free", Let Our Experts do the Work for You
- Save Hundreds of Back of House Staff Hours
- Issue and Receive Automatic Refunds and Reconciliations
- Analyze and Improve with our Extensive Report Suite
Support and Follow Up
- Live Order Tracking and Support
- Post Order Feedback and Follow Up
- 24/7 Delivery Operation Center
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What is Sauce?
Sauce is a first-party restaurant ordering and delivery platform that helps restaurants own their customer relationships, grow direct online sales, and increase profitability.
Instead of relying entirely on third-party marketplaces, Sauce gives restaurants the tools to run branded online ordering, delivery, customer marketing, loyalty, and guest engagement under their own brand.
Plus: You’ll now be able to utilize several leading delivery couriers throughout the country. So you’ll no longer be at the mercy of a single provider. You’re protecting your margins while saying goodbye to paying 30% commission per delivery order!
How does Sauce help owners get more online orders and repeat customers?
Sauce helps restaurants drive more direct orders through a branded online ordering experience that feels just as seamless and reliable as the major third-party apps — while keeping the restaurant’s brand front and center.
Customers get a fast, modern delivery and ordering experience they already expect, which encourages them to reorder again and again directly from the restaurant instead of through marketplaces.
Restaurants can:
- Offer fast, mobile-friendly direct ordering
- Provide a delivery experience on par with third-party platforms
- Re-engage customers with automated email and SMS marketing
- Build loyalty and repeat visits with rewards and retention tools
- Capture customer data and ordering history
- Reduce dependence on expensive third-party apps that own the guest relationship
The result is more repeat customers, higher order frequency, and stronger long-term customer value
How does Sauce help owners make more profit?
Sauce helps improve restaurant margins by shifting orders from high-commission third-party platforms to direct ordering channels. Restaurants keep more revenue from every order while also increasing customer lifetime value.
Owners typically benefit from:
- Lower commission costs on online orders
- Higher-margin direct orders
- Increased repeat business from existing customers
- Better operational efficiency through POS integrations and centralized order management
- More control over delivery economics and customer experience
Instead of paying to reacquire the same customer through marketplaces, Sauce helps restaurants build their own profitable customer base.
Is Sauce Direct Delivery truly commission-free, or is there a catch?
Yes, Sauce truly is commission-free — and no, there’s no catch. We charge a small flat fixed fee that doesn’t increase with the order size. This means that Sauce users will now pay a low flat fixed fee per delivery order, regardless of order size and regardless of distance up to five miles (and up to 20 miles in selected cities).
Plus: You’ll now be able to utilize several leading delivery couriers throughout the country. So you’ll no longer be at the mercy of a single provider. You’re protecting your margins while saying goodbye to paying 30% commission per delivery order!
Which problems does Sauce solve best for restaurant owners?
Sauce is especially effective for restaurants that want to:
– Reduce reliance on third-party delivery apps
– Increase direct online ordering
– Improve customer retention and loyalty
– Own their customer data
– Increase profitability from delivery and takeout
– Modernize their online ordering experience
– Simplify delivery operations
– Launch digital marketing campaigns that actually drive repeat orders
Sauce works best when restaurants want to grow digitally without giving away their margins or customer relationships.
Is Sauce a POS company?
No. Sauce is not a POS company.
Sauce integrates with leading POS systems to extend and enhance a restaurant’s digital ordering, delivery, and customer engagement capabilities. The POS remains the restaurant’s system of record, while Sauce powers the guest-facing digital experience and direct ordering growth
Is Sauce a delivery company?
Sauce is not a traditional delivery marketplace.
By connecting to multiple delivery companies, Sauce helps restaurants manage and optimize delivery for their own customers. Depending on the restaurant’s setup, Sauce can support delivery orchestration, dispatching, and delivery provider integrations while keeping the restaurant’s brand front and center.
The focus is on helping restaurants own the customer relationship — not competing with them for it.
Who are the drivers that Sauce partners with?
We partner with the national delivery companies, as well as local ones.
This way, restaurants are not at the mercy of just one provider, and can utilize a dispatch system with Sauce that always selects the most readily available driver, all commission-free!
Which POS systems does Sauce integrate with?
Sauce integrates with Toast and Square
Which restaurants get the most value with Sauce?
Sauce delivers the most value for restaurants that:
- Already have strong demand on delivery apps and want to convert customers to direct ordering
- Depend heavily on takeout and delivery revenue
- Want to improve margins
- Care about branding and customer ownership
- Want better marketing and retention tools
- Are looking to scale digital sales efficiently
Independent restaurants, regional chains, fast casual brands, pizza concepts, and high-volume takeout businesses often see especially strong results.
Getting started with Sauce: how fast is it? When do I see results?
Most restaurants can get up and running with Sauce quickly, often within days depending on the POS setup and onboarding requirements.
Restaurants typically begin seeing:
- Increased direct online orders shortly after launch
- Higher repeat ordering within the first few weeks
- Improved profitability as more customers shift away from third-party ordering channels over time
The fastest results usually come from restaurants that actively promote their direct ordering channels to existing customers.
I do not own my website. Does Sauce provide an alternative?
Yes.
Restaurants do not need to have an existing website to start using Sauce. Sauce can provide a branded website and direct ordering solutions even if a restaurant does not currently own or manage a website.
This allows restaurants to launch direct ordering quickly while still offering customers a professional branded experience.
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