Your orders. Your kitchen. A clearer view of what to improve.
Take orders on your own website. Keep the team in sync with the Kitchen Portal. Turn your sales, menu and timing data into AI Business Reviews with clear priorities and recommended next steps.
Subscription plus fixed order overages. Stripe processing is separate. AI reviews use Tokens; plan grants and top-ups are explained below.
yourrestaurant.com/order
Example RestaurantPickup & Restaurant delivery · Open now
Naan setFrom $6.50
House curryFrom $16.00
Paid order #4821Owner decision
Requested pickup7:20 PM
Suggested +15 min
Accept 7:20Accept 7:35
AI-Powered Restaurant Business Review
What deserves attention next
Illustrative sample
01
Lamb biryani is your Friday bottleneck14 min route-to-ready vs 6 min menu median · appears in 38% of Friday tickets
Evidence linkedOwner: shift leadReview in 2 weeks
Your site takes the order. Your team runs it. Your review says what to fix.
Every order adds to the picture. See how service ran, understand what needs attention, and decide what to do next.
01Customer orderOwn-domain pickup or Restaurant-managed delivery.
02Kitchen PortalLive queue, preparation and handoff.
03Operating evidenceSales, menu, commitment and timing signals.
04AI Business ReviewStandard or Premium generated analysis.
05Advisory next actionEvidence, owner, timeframe and success measure.
Where the order starts
Your homepage sells. It does not just point at the menu.
Most Restaurant sites are a brochure with an “Order Online” button that hands the customer to a separate ordering address. On Varlounge the homepage carries the brand and the cart, so a decided customer can order from the first screen.
The usual path
yourrestaurant.com
Welcome to our RestaurantFamily recipes since 1998Order Online ›
↓ the customer has to leave and start again
platform.com/your-restaurant
Menu item$00.00
Menu item$00.00
Two pages, often two different web addresses. The brand lives in one place and the cart in another, and everything the homepage earned in search points somewhere else to finish.
On Varlounge
yourrestaurant.com
Welcome to our RestaurantOpen now · Pickup & Restaurant delivery
Featured item$14.99
Add to cart
Today’s special$8.99
Add to cart
Deal of the week$21.50
Add to cart
One page and one address. Hero, story, deals and customer reviews sit above a menu the customer can actually order from, and the full menu stays one click away for anyone still deciding. Restaurant pages support page-specific SEO fields, so the page that ranks is the page that takes the order.
AI-Powered Restaurant Business Review
See the finding. Understand the evidence. Choose your next move.
Explore an example of how an AI Business Review turns service data into a management action. Basic offers Standard analysis; Gold and Premium offer deeper Premium analysis.
Standard AI Business Review
Focused operational read
15 Tokens
Illustrative sampleCurrent vs previous periodEvidence referenced
01
Two high-volume items account for most of the refund increase
Example finding based on sample aggregate figures.
Observed
Sample refund value increased from 1.4% to 2.1%; two items represent 61% of the change.
Interpretation
The concentration warrants a menu and preparation review. The figures identify association, not a proven cause.
Recommended action
Review the two item descriptions and preparation notes with the menu lead before changing pricing or availability.
Share of sample refund increase
Item A36%
Item B25%
Other39%
Illustrative product sample using invented aggregate figures—not a customer result.
Friday ready-to-handoff time increased during the dinner window
Example priority finding based on sample aggregate figures.
Observed
Median ready-to-handoff time increased from 5 to 11 minutes across 42 fulfilled Friday orders.
Qualified interpretation
The increase is associated with a higher share of multi-item orders in the same window. The evidence does not prove that order size caused the delay.
Recommended action
Have the shift lead review staging and handoff roles during the next two Friday dinner windows, then compare the same timing measure.
Median ready-to-handoff time
Previous5m
Current11m
Target7m
OwnerShift lead
TimeframeNext 2 Fridays
Success measureMedian under 7 min
Illustrative product sample using invented aggregate figures—not a customer result.
Generate a review when you need a closer look.
Standard uses 15 Tokens; Premium uses 25. Plan grants accumulate toward reviews, with top-ups available. A monthly grant does not fund a complete review on its own.
Sample orders shown. Available actions depend on order status and staff permissions.
When twenty minutes stops being realistic
Ten ordinary orders landing together can be harder on an oven than one big one. Varlounge watches for both situations, tells the team, and then measures whether the estimate actually held—without ever quietly changing the time a customer was promised.
01 · ANTICIPATE
Two signals you set yourself
Define the hours your kitchen is genuinely busy, and the item count above which an order stops being routine. Varlounge raises a flag when either applies—or both.
Rush windowFri 6:30–8:00 PM
Large order14 items · over 5
Both signals present
02 · DECIDE
Your team makes the call
The flag reaches the person accepting the order, with a suggested delay. Varlounge does not reject the order, extend the promise on its own, or move a time the customer has already been given.
Paid order #4821Your call
Requested pickup7:20 PM
Suggested +15 min
Keep 7:20Accept 7:35
03 · MEASURE
Every dish is timed
Varlounge records how long each individual item takes from the kitchen receiving it to handoff. Your Business Review reads that back—so the threshold you guessed at can become the one your kitchen actually needs.
Lamb biryani14m
Menu median6m
Rush windows and the large-order threshold are guidance for your staff. They do not reject orders, and they do not automatically change a customer’s promised time. Preparation time, scheduling slots, lead time and how far ahead customers may book are configured per Restaurant, separately for pickup and Restaurant-managed delivery.
yourrestaurant.com/order
Example RestaurantOpen · Pickup and Restaurant delivery
ASAPScheduleDeals
Build your half-and-half Choose a size, sides and each halfFrom $18
Half-and-half configuration
Illustrative product UI · required choices
Menu depth
Left halfRight half
Large servingBase
Spicy chicken · left+$2
Roasted pepper · right+$1
Direct ordering & menu depth
Your menu, with all the choices that make it yours.
Offer sizes, extras, required choices and half-and-half combinations on your own ordering page.
Disallowed combinations with operator-authored guidance
Whole, left and right portion logic for half-and-half
Product proof and trust
Checkout is rechecked
Supported totals and eligible fulfilment choices are validated by the platform.
Connected Restaurant payment
Customer payment is created through the Restaurant's connected Stripe account.
Protected email actions
Supported order-action links are protected, time-limited and single-use.
Evidence before action
AI Business Reviews link findings to evidence and never change Restaurant settings.
Plans for your next stage
Start with insight. Step up to deeper analysis.
Basic brings Standard AI analysis to your direct orders. Gold adds Premium analysis and more fulfilment tools. Premium expands capacity, report history and Token grants.
0%percentage platform fee
From USD 74.95per month
Fixed overagespublished by plan
Stripe separateprocessing is not included
Basic
USD 74.95 / month
Standard AI Business Review
Understand performance with written analysis, evidence and recommended next steps.
Tokens accumulate. Generate when the balance is ready.
Every plan includes a monthly Token grant, and unused Tokens roll over with no expiration. Each generated review draws from that balance. Top up whenever you want reviews more often than the grant alone covers.
Standard AI Business Review15 Tokens
Premium AI Business Review25 Tokens
Starter5 Tokens
USD 14.95
Growth15 Tokens
USD 39.95
Pro40 Tokens
USD 99.95
Basic offers Standard AI Business Reviews. Gold and Premium offer Premium AI Business Reviews. Each generated review requires sufficient Tokens; report history follows your plan.
Compare illustrative platform charges
What 300 monthly orders cost under different pricing models
300 orders each month × USD 15 = USD 54,000 in annual sales. These are hypothetical fee examples, not vendor quotes or equivalent service packages.
Pricing model & who pays
Annual platform charges
Marketplace commissionRestaurant pays an assumed 15–30% of sales
Annual platform chargesUSD 8,100–16,200
Subscription + percentage feeRestaurant pays an assumed 5% plus subscription
Annual platform chargesUSD 2,700plus the annual subscription cost
Customer checkout feeCustomer pays an assumed USD 1.00–1.75 per order
Annual platform chargesUSD 3,600–6,300paid by customers; not a restaurant expense
Varlounge Basic: subscription + fixed overageRestaurant pays USD 74.95/month. Includes 300 orders/month; USD 0.20 per order above the allowance.
Annual platform chargesUSD 899.40No overage at this example’s monthly volume
Varlounge card processing is additional. Other providers may include processing, delivery or customer acquisition in their fees. Taxes, optional services and Token top-ups are excluded. This comparison is not a net-savings estimate.
Current list pricing. Pricing and commercial terms shown here may change prospectively under the Restaurant Agreement and any required notice. Already-paid subscription periods and accepted fixed-price commitments are not changed retroactively. Taxes and third-party charges remain separate where applicable.
Your direct-order economics
What could moving selected orders onto your own page change?
See the cost difference for orders you move to your own page, including processing, delivery and a Varlounge subscription. Then explore the AI insights and daily workflow tools that the numbers alone cannot value.
U.S./USD illustration. This calculator uses USD and Stripe's standard U.S. domestic online-card example of 2.9% + USD 0.30. Rates vary by country, payment method and account pricing, and actual savings vary.
Start with the orders you expect to move from a marketplace. Enter your current commission, then choose how customers will receive those orders on your own page.
Count only orders you realistically expect customers to place on your own page. Orders that remain on a marketplace are excluded.
Your typical ticket before tax and tip.
Use the effective percentage on your own statement—not a headline rate—and include any payment-processing line the marketplace bills separately. Marketplace delivery tiers commonly fall between 15% and 30%.
Pickup or your own delivery?
Varlounge supports pickup and restaurant-managed delivery. Your team supplies the drivers.
30 deliveries + 120 pickup orders per month. Enter 0 for pickup only.
Driver time and vehicle costs for one delivery, before the customer’s delivery fee.
Per delivery, before tax. This offsets your delivery cost; card processing also applies to this fee.
Method, assumptions and exclusions
This compares one marketplace order against the same order placed on the Restaurant’s own page. The commission is applied only to the orders entered as moving.
The marketplace commission is treated as covering the marketplace’s own payment processing, so moving those orders adds card processing as a genuinely new cost.
Card processing uses Stripe’s published standard U.S. domestic online-card rate of 2.9% + USD 0.30, applied to the full amount charged to the card rather than the ticket alone, because card fees also apply to tax and tip; the estimate assumes tax and tip add 18% to the food ticket. Customer delivery fees are also included in the card charge; any tax on those fees is assumed to be covered by this overall tax-and-tip allowance. Custom pricing, international cards and currency conversion can differ. Check Stripe’s current pricing.
Only the entered delivery orders incur delivery costs. Monthly delivery cost = deliveries × cost per delivery; delivery fee income = deliveries × the fee you charge. Pickup orders incur neither. Varlounge supplies no drivers. This example assumes the marketplace currently handles delivery and keeps its delivery fee; restaurant-managed marketplace delivery would need a separate comparison.
Monthly difference = marketplace commission avoided + customer delivery fees − card processing − your delivery costs − Varlounge subscription and overages. The estimate uses the lowest-cost plan for this volume, assumes these are your only Varlounge orders, and annualizes one month at the same volume. It does not select a plan by AI features or include Token top-ups.
Taxes and tips are excluded from revenue and from the avoided commission, and are counted only in the card-processing basis. Optional Varlounge professional services, refunds, promotions, marketplace advertising, menu price differences between channels, and possible future repeat-order effects are excluded.
This is an estimate from your inputs—not a forecast, guarantee, accounting opinion, or promise of results.
Optional professional services
Run the ordering platform—and strengthen how local customers find you.
Varlounge also provides separately scoped Restaurant growth services. Add only the listing, advertising, website or audit support that fits the business; these services are not bundled into the Restaurant subscription.
Local presence & listings
Launch and maintain accurate Restaurant information where nearby customers search and navigate.
Performance-conscious pagesResponsive assets, modern image formats, local fonts and restrained scripting are used where the delivered scope supports them. Actual speed still depends on content, hosting, integrations and the visitor's connection.
Search-ready foundationsRestaurant pages support page-specific SEO fields. Website launches include basic SEO configuration and structured data; rankings are never guaranteed.
See whether Varlounge fits the way your Restaurant operates.
Built for
Independent Restaurants taking direct pickup and Restaurant-managed delivery orders
Own-domain storefronts and detailed menu configuration
Owner and kitchen workflows with practical commitment controls
AI-Powered Restaurant Business Reviews grounded in supported evidence
Not designed for
POS systems or kitchen-printer integrations
External courier networks or driver dispatch
Reservations, loyalty/rewards or native Restaurant-branded apps
Centralized multi-location management or cross-location reporting
Straight answers
Questions you may have.
Does Varlounge charge a percentage of each Restaurant order?
Varlounge's percentage platform fee is 0%. Each paid plan includes a monthly order allowance, followed by a fixed overage of USD 0.20 on Basic, USD 0.15 on Gold or USD 0.10 on Premium. Stripe processing is separate.
Is the direct-order financial estimate a savings guarantee?
No. It is an estimate calculated from the figures the visitor enters. It subtracts assumed US domestic online-card processing, Restaurant-managed delivery cost, and Varlounge plan and overage cost. Marketplace inclusions, custom processing rates, taxes, tips, refunds, promotions, optional services and future customer behavior can change the real result.
How do Restaurant payments and payouts work?
The customer payment is created through the Restaurant's connected Stripe account. Stripe processing fees are separate from Varlounge pricing, and Stripe controls payout availability and timing.
What are AI Business Review Tokens?
AI Business Review Tokens let you generate AI-powered insights about your Restaurant's performance. Tokens are included with paid plans, accumulate when unused, and can be topped up whenever you need more. A Standard AI Business Review uses 15 Tokens and a Premium AI Business Review uses 25 Tokens.
What happens when I cancel or replace a plan?
Normal cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and paid access continues through that date. Normal cancellation does not include an automatic prorated refund. Plan replacement is handled separately.
What is the difference between Standard and Premium AI Business Reviews?
Basic offers Standard AI Business Reviews: written analysis with evidence and recommended next steps. Gold and Premium offer Premium AI Business Reviews: deeper analysis with prioritized findings, confidence, severity and structured management actions where the evidence supports them. Standard uses 15 Tokens per review; Premium uses 25. Both are advisory and require sufficient Token balance.
Can the ordering experience use the Restaurant's own domain?
Yes. A Restaurant can publish its branded ordering experience on its own configured domain, subject to domain, DNS and activation readiness. Additional fees may apply.
Does Varlounge provide delivery drivers?
No. Varlounge supports pickup and Restaurant-managed delivery, including delivery eligibility and timing rules. It does not supply or dispatch drivers.
Does a Restaurant need proprietary hardware?
No proprietary Varlounge hardware is required. Customer, owner and kitchen experiences run in supported web browsers. Gold and Premium also support protected order actions from email.
How does tax work?
Tax behavior is configuration-dependent. Supported Restaurants can use optional Stripe Tax when ready and eligible, configure manual tax, or use a no-tax policy where appropriate. Automatic tax is not asserted for every Restaurant or order.
Can an AI Business Review change Restaurant settings?
No. AI Business Reviews are advisory. They can present observations, qualified interpretations and recommended actions, but they do not change menus, prices, staffing, hours, fulfilment settings or other Restaurant configuration.
Are Varlounge's professional services included in a Restaurant plan?
No. Listing management, advertising, website services, audits and AI Chat are separately scoped professional services. Availability, the exact tier and any third-party spend are confirmed in the applicable proposal.
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Tell us what you’d like to improve. We’ll help you explore the platform, choose a plan, or arrange a product walkthrough.
Own-domain storefront and complex menu configuration
Kitchen Portal, staff workflow and customer updates
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