GloriaFood is shutting down on April 30, 2027
If you take orders through GloriaFood, you have a deadline. Here is what actually goes away, what to save before it does, and how to pick what comes next without accidentally signing up for a percentage of every order you take.
The short version
GloriaFood — owned by Oracle — is being shut down on April 30, 2027. When it goes, the ordering page, the menu you built, and the customer list inside it go with it. There is no successor product and no migration button.
That is the whole problem in one sentence: the thing that dies is not just an order button, it is your customer list.
First, the honest part
GloriaFood was free. Unlimited orders, no commission, no contract. If you have been running on it happily for years, you were not being naive — you were getting an extremely good deal, and nothing that replaces it is going to feel as generous.
Any page that opens by telling you GloriaFood was bad is selling you something. It was good. It is ending anyway.
What to save before the date
Do this now rather than in April, while the account is still live:
- Your menu — every item, description, price, and modifier. A screenshot is not enough; you want the text somewhere you can paste it.
- Your customer list. This is the one that matters and the one people forget. GloriaFood has an import-and-invite feature, which means there is a list in there with real addresses in it. Get it out.
- Your ordering links. Anywhere the GloriaFood or FoodBooking URL is printed — Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram bio, printed menus, window decals, the QR code on the table.
That third one is the sleeper. When the platform switches off, every one of those links goes to a dead page, and you will not remember where they all are. Write the list down today.
Choosing what comes next
Broadly there are three shapes, and they cost very different things:
| Shape | Example | What it really costs |
|---|---|---|
| Another free/cheap order button | Various | $0–$29/mo. Fine. You will be here again if the vendor exits. |
| A website-and-ordering subscription | Popmenu from $179/mo, ChowNow $139/mo, BentoBox from $149/mo | A monthly bill, and ordering is often an add-on rather than included |
| A marketplace | DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub | 15–30% of every order, and the customer belongs to them, not you |
The third row is where a lot of GloriaFood refugees end up, usually by accident — it is the fastest thing to set up. It is also the most expensive by a wide margin, and the cost scales with your success.
We measured this rather than guessing at it: sweeping 537 independent restaurants across five Louisiana metros, 29 had a marketplace deep link as their order button, and 24 of those had no ordering channel of their own that we could find. Their "online ordering" is somebody else's platform, at somebody else's rate.
The question nobody in this category answers
Every option above — including the one we sell — is a web ordering product. GloriaFood was too. In its entire feature list there was never anything that picked up the phone.
Which is worth sitting with, because for most independent restaurants the phone is still where the orders are, and it is the channel that fails hardest exactly when you are busiest. A missed call at 7pm on Friday is not a smaller version of a missed web order. It is a customer who called, got a busy signal, and called somewhere else.
What we do about it
Anseur gives you the website and the online ordering free, with no cut of any order — because that part is table stakes now and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The part we charge for is the phone: an AI that answers every call, including ten at once, takes the order by voice, and sends it to the kitchen. That starts at $99/month.
You can call it right now and try to trip it up — the number is on our home page.
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Questions
When exactly does GloriaFood shut down?
April 30, 2027. After that the ordering pages and the account go away.
Will my menu transfer automatically to another provider?
No. There is no migration tool and no successor product, so whatever you want to keep — menu, customer list, ordering links — you need to export or write down yourself while the account is still live.
Is there a free replacement?
There are free and near-free order buttons, yes. The honest caution is that a free product from a company with no way to make money from you is exactly the situation you are in right now. Ask how the vendor gets paid before you rebuild on them.
Is going on DoorDash a reasonable replacement?
It is the fastest option and the most expensive one. Marketplace commission runs 15–30% of every order at published rates, and the customer relationship belongs to the marketplace. It works, but it is a different business decision than replacing an order button.
See it answer a call
Call the demo line and try to trip it up. It takes an order, prices it, and sends it to a kitchen screen — no signup, no sales call first.
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