Is delivery worth it at all for a restaurant?

For most operators it is — it adds reach and revenue that dine-in alone cannot. The point is not to avoid delivery but to run it with open eyes: know the true per-order contribution, decide how much volume runs through a third party versus your own channel, and never treat app revenue as if it carries the same margin as a table. Delivery run deliberately is an asset; delivery run blind is a quiet leak.

From Aggregator Economics 2026: What Delivery Really Costs in the UAE, KSA and India — the full reading, with the method behind this answer.