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Town vs Zing (ZingMyOrder)

Zing bundles restaurant tools with its own consumer food-discovery app, so your restaurant becomes a listing again. Town keeps everything on your own branded site: one flat price, 0% commission, and the customer stays yours.

The problem

A template, a monthly bill, and a site you don't own.

ZingMyOrder puts you on a shared template, bills you every month, and keeps you renting, so the site, the app and your customers never really become yours.

  • 🎨 A shared template that looks like every other ZingMyOrder restaurant
  • 💸 Monthly fees for features often split across pricey tiers
  • 🔒 You don't own it, leave and the site and data can go with them
  • 🙉 You still do the work, loading menus and running the tools yourself
Town brings it all home: a fully custom site you own, everything included in one flat price, and we set it up for you, no ZingMyOrder template, no tier games.
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Town vs ZingMyOrder, at a glance

 TownZingMyOrder
Pricing modelOne flat monthly price, 0% commissionPer-order flat fee (same fee on a $25 or a $100 order); a “$0 per order” value package where the fee is passed to or split with the customer
Card processingBundled inSeparate: 2.95% + 37¢ per transaction
CateringIncludedAdditional 5% fee
DeliverySame DoorDash & Uber driver networks, built into your siteNo delivery of its own; helps you set up your own
Who owns the customerYou, the email, reorders and guest stay with the restaurantAmbiguous, Zing also runs a consumer discovery app where you’re a listing
Your storefrontYour own branded site, not a tile in an appFeatured as a listing on Zing’s app and website
AIAlfredo AI assistant + AI social posterSEO/listings + email & text marketing
Setup & contractNo contract, cancel anytimeReportedly no long-term contract

The real difference

Both are Texas all-in-one platforms chasing the same independent restaurants, but built on opposite philosophies: your own branded site versus a foodie-discovery marketplace.

Zing runs a consumer app and website where your restaurant shows up as a listing, the same “tile in someone else’s app” dynamic Town is built to save you from.

Zing’s “$0/month” framing only pencils out because the per-order fee gets pushed onto your diner, and card processing (2.95% + 37¢) and catering (5%) sit on top. Town is one flat monthly price with 0% commission, one clean number.

With Town the customer, the email and the reorder stay yours. On a marketplace, discovery, and the guest, belongs to the platform.

Everything included

We set it up and run it for you.

You get signed up, and we handle the rest, you don't lift a finger. We work with you until you're live and ready.

Online ordering on your own site
01

Online Ordering

Not just taking orders online, we actually grow your first-party online sales.

A custom branded restaurant website
02

Branded Website

Custom web development, SEO-optimized to drive traffic to you.

A restaurant loyalty program on Town
03

Loyalty & Promotions

Keep your customers coming back, again, again, and again.

Delivery dispatch across every major network
04

Delivery Logistics

Up to a 10-mile radius, with access to every major delivery network.

Listings synced across 60+ platforms
05

60+ Platform Listings

Re-optimize your listings so sales point to you, the merchant, not the marketplaces.

Native reservations on a restaurant's own site
06

Reservations & Waitlists

Fully native, your guests never leave your own site.

Integrates with Clover, Square, Oracle and more
07

POS Integration

Integration support with most POS systems.

Automated review response
08

Automated Review Response

Rules-based templates or AI reply to your customer feedback automatically.

AI social media post composer
09

AI Social Media

AI writes, schedules and publishes your posts to Google, Instagram and 15+ listings.

How it works

What happens after you say yes.

You run the restaurant. We handle the setup, start to finish.

1

We build your website

A custom, on-brand site with online ordering built in, designed for your restaurant. No templates, no code, nothing for you to figure out.

A custom restaurant website built on Town
2

A pro shoots your food

A professional food photographer comes to you, on us. Great photos are the difference between a scroll and an order.

Professional food photography for your menu
3

We connect your POS

We integrate all your delivery apps right into your POS, so every order lands in the kitchen automatically. No extra tablets to babysit.

Orders routing to your POS
4

We get you live, no disruption

No retraining your staff. No starting over with a new web address, and no losing the Google ranking you've already built. We set everything up around what you have and don't stop until orders are flowing. You don't lift a finger.

A Town rep with a restaurant owner, live and ready

What you get with Town

Everything included, nothing left out.

One platform that's already put $1M+ in extra revenue back in restaurants' pockets.

Grow online discovery
Custom website
Built by real engineers
Unlimited pages
Hiring, events, catering, SEO
Rank higher on Google
Listings across 60+ platforms
AI social media posting
Google, Instagram & more
Reviews management
Automated responses
Event calendar
Grow online sales
Online ordering
Pickup & delivery
Delivery
Major driver networks, up to 10 mi
Menu builder
Categories, modifiers & options
Catering ordering
Plus inquiry forms
Google & social ordering
Discount codes
Grow repeat orders
Loyalty & rewards
Automated
Promotions & offers
Automated
Customer database (CRM)
You own your data
Reservations
Waitlist
Run your restaurant
POS integration suite
Clover, Square, Oracle & more
Tablet & receipt printer
Real-time dashboard
Analytics & reporting
Alfredo AI assistant
Staff accounts & roles
Multi-location ready
Done for you
Food photography & video
Done-for-you setup
24/7 dedicated support

Local legends on Town

Real restaurants. Real results.

+$1,200/day in sales

Benny Polisi · Italian Garden

0 → 100s of online orders

Hunter Christiansen · New York Sub Hub

Took back control

Ray Allen · Big Ray's BBQ

Works with what you already use

One connection. Every ordering channel.

Manage your menus, orders, and delivery providers from a single platform, and keep the delivery apps, POS, and payment processing you already run.

Save time, eliminate manual work.

Automatically sync your menus, inject orders straight into your POS, and keep every channel up to date.

Keep your payment processing.

Town works with the payment processing you already have, nothing to rip out and nothing to switch.

Built to grow with you.

Power your restaurant with enterprise-grade integrations that scale as your business grows.

Manage menus, orders and delivery providers from one platform

Questions

How much does Zing (ZingMyOrder) cost?
Zing markets a “$0 per order” value package, but that works because a per-order fee is passed to or split with the customer, and card processing (2.95% + 37¢) and catering (5%) are separate. Town is one flat monthly price with 0% commission. Zing’s exact per-order dollar amount isn’t published.
Does Zing list my restaurant in its own app?
Yes, Zing also runs a consumer food-discovery app and website where restaurants appear as listings. Town keeps guests on your own branded site, so you own the customer and the reorder.
Does Zing do delivery?
Zing doesn’t provide delivery, it helps you set up your own. Town dispatches the same DoorDash and Uber driver networks built into your site, with no marketplace commission.
Is there a contract with Town?
No contract, cancel anytime.

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