Online ordering Used by UK Food Service Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected market share for online ordering across 170 UK food service companies, with FoodBooking and GloriaFood jointly leading at 46.5% each.

Across 83,163 trading UK food service companies, 170 have a detectable online ordering system. Six systems appear, with FoodBooking and GloriaFood level on 46.5% each, both found at 79 companies.

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TouchTakeaway is close behind at 36.5% and 62 companies, giving the visible market a three-system upper tier. NFCube appears at 12.9% and 22 companies, while My Mobile App has 3.5% and 6 companies; Samita appears once, at 0.6%.

FoodBooking leads every employee band shown here: 54.2% among 72 companies under 10 employees, 41.5% among 94 companies with 10–50 employees, and 25.0% among 4 companies over 50 employees. The over-50 band is very small, so its split is less stable than the two smaller-company bands.

170

food service with detected Online ordering

Of 83,163 UK food service

0.2%

Detection rate

2026

6

Systems detected

In this category

46.5%

Leader share

FoodBooking

UK Food Service Online ordering market share

My Mobile App
Samita

Share of the 170 UK Food Service with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Online ordering compared

SystemUK Food ServiceShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
FoodBooking7946.5%1025.3%Small operators, 10 median headcount
GloriaFood7946.5%1025.3%Small operators, 10 median headcount
TouchTakeaway6236.5%1112.9%Small operators, 11 median headcount
NFCube2212.9%View these companies in Firmbase →
My Mobile App63.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Samita10.6%View these companies in Firmbase →

Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.

Market leader by size

The leading Online ordering system shifts with company size: among UK Food Service with under 10 employees, FoodBooking leads at 54.2% of the 72 with a detectable system; among UK Food Service with 10–50 employees, FoodBooking leads at 41.5% of the 94 with a detectable system; and among UK Food Service with over 50 employees, FoodBooking leads at 25% of the 4 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

FoodBooking

54.2% of band

FoodBooking leads this 72-company band with 54.2% share, making the smallest operators the clearest FoodBooking segment. GloriaFood and TouchTakeaway still sit within the same small-site market, but below the named leader.

10–50 employees

FoodBooking

41.5% of band

FoodBooking also leads the 94-company 10–50 employee band, at 41.5%. This is the largest band shown here and appears to be the main battleground for FoodBooking, GloriaFood and TouchTakeaway.

Over 50 employees

FoodBooking

25% of band

Only 4 detected companies sit above 50 employees, with FoodBooking leading at 25.0%. The count is too small to read as a settled enterprise pattern.

How Online ordering usage is detected

Methodology

Company data

Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.

Detection

Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.

Freshness

Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used Online ordering among UK food service companies?
FoodBooking is the most-detected Online ordering among UK food service companies, with 46.5% share (79 of 170 companies with a detectable system), ahead of GloriaFood (46.5%) and TouchTakeaway (36.5%).
How many UK food service companies have a detectable Online ordering?
170 of 83,163 actively-trading UK food service companies (0.2%) have a Online ordering detectable from their public website. The remainder either run systems with no public web footprint or none at all, so detected share figures are a conservative floor.
What is a Online ordering?
An online ordering system lets UK food service companies receive customer orders through a website, app or connected ordering flow. For restaurants, takeaways and similar operators, it usually handles menu presentation, basket creation, order submission and the hand-off into kitchen or fulfilment processes.
How is Online ordering usage detected?
Firmbase crawls the public website of every actively-trading company in this scope and fingerprints the technologies present — scripts, widgets, booking and checkout flows. A company is attributed to a system when that system's signatures are found; systems with no public web footprint are not attributable, which is why every share figure on this page means share of companies with a detectable system.
Which has more UK food service companies, FoodBooking or GloriaFood?
FoodBooking: 79 detected companies versus 79 for GloriaFood, of the 170 UK food service companies with a detectable Online ordering.
What is the best Online ordering for UK food service companies?
Usage here is reported as observed market share rather than as a recommendation. FoodBooking leads each size band shown: 54.2% of 72 companies under 10 employees, 41.5% of 94 companies with 10–50 employees, and 25.0% of 4 companies over 50 employees; overall, FoodBooking and GloriaFood are level at 46.5% and 79 companies each, followed by TouchTakeaway at 36.5% and 62 companies.

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