eOrderSTL Restaurant Online Ordering Built for St. Louis Restaurants
More Than Online Ordering — eOrderSTL Helps Restaurants Grow
eOrderSTL is a locally focused restaurant online ordering and AI-driven delivery platform designed to give St. Louis-area restaurants something they need more than another ordering app: a complete digital marketing and online ordering solution focused on their restaurant and their brand.
National platforms such as DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats have transformed restaurant delivery and provide restaurants access to enormous consumer marketplaces. However, restaurants looking for a more direct relationship with customers also need their own online presence.
That is where eOrderSTL is different.
Instead of placing another restaurant in a marketplace filled with competitors, eOrderSTL gives participating restaurants a dedicated, SEO-optimized ordering website supported by an established St. Louis restaurant marketing network.
The objective is simple:
Help local restaurants generate more direct online orders, strengthen their digital presence, and build long-term customer relationships.
eOrderSTL Features
1. FREE SEO-Optimized Restaurant Website
Every participating restaurant receives a FREE restaurant ordering website that gives customers a convenient way to view the menu and place orders online.
The website is also optimized for search visibility, giving restaurants another digital asset that can potentially appear when consumers search for the restaurant, its menu, cuisine, and related local dining information.
This is more than an order page.
It becomes another online destination for your restaurant.
2. Your Restaurant Without Competitor Advertising
One of the biggest differences between a dedicated restaurant ordering website and a marketplace is what customers see.
Marketplace apps are specifically designed to help consumers browse numerous restaurants.
With eOrderSTL, customers visiting your restaurant’s ordering website are there for your restaurant.
They aren’t presented with a page designed around browsing dozens of competing restaurants before completing their order.
Your menu. Your food. Your restaurant.
3. Reliable Online Ordering
Restaurant customers expect ordering technology to be available when they need it.
eOrderSTL is built for dependable online availability, letting customers access participating restaurant menus and place orders from their phones, tablets, or computers.
4. Mobile-Friendly Ordering
Restaurant ordering is increasingly mobile.
eOrderSTL websites are designed to be mobile-friendly, making it easy for customers to browse menu items and order from smartphones without downloading another app.
5. Exposure on St. Louis Restaurant Review
Participating restaurants receive exposure through St. Louis Restaurant Review, an established local restaurant publication covering restaurants, openings, dining news, and the St. Louis hospitality industry.
Member restaurants can be connected directly with consumers looking for local dining and online ordering options.
6. Exposure on STL.News
Participating restaurants can also benefit from exposure through STL.News, expanding their visibility beyond a traditional restaurant directory or ordering application.
This creates an important distinction between eOrderSTL and a conventional ordering provider.
eOrderSTL isn’t only processing orders. We’re helping promote the restaurants that generate those orders.
7. Exposure on STL.Directory
Member restaurants are also featured through STL.Directory, providing another searchable online presence and another opportunity for consumers to discover the business.
Together, these properties create a growing local digital ecosystem around participating restaurants.
8. Email Marketing
An online order shouldn’t necessarily represent the end of a restaurant’s relationship with a customer.
eOrderSTL supports email marketing strategies designed to help participating restaurants communicate with customers about specials, new menu items, events, and other promotions.
9. SMS Text Message Marketing
Text messaging gives restaurants another powerful way to reach customers quickly.
eOrderSTL can help restaurants incorporate SMS marketing into their overall digital strategy, allowing participating businesses to promote offers and encourage repeat business while following applicable messaging and consent requirements.
10. Social Media Marketing
Restaurants need visibility beyond their own websites.
eOrderSTL supports participating restaurants through social media campaigns designed to increase awareness, promote menu items and introduce restaurants to potential customers.
11. Press Release Distribution
Restaurant openings, anniversaries, new menus, expansions, awards and special events can all be newsworthy.
Participating restaurants have access to press release distribution opportunities designed to increase their digital visibility and communicate important developments.
12. Content Marketing
Search visibility doesn’t come from an ordering page alone.
Quality content can help consumers discover restaurants when researching where to eat, what to order, and which restaurants serve a particular cuisine.
eOrderSTL combines online ordering with content marketing opportunities across the St. Louis Media network.
13. Personal Sales and Service
Restaurants aren’t dealing solely with an automated national platform.
eOrderSTL provides personal sales and service.
We work with local restaurant owners and operators and understand that every restaurant has different needs, menus, customers, and marketing challenges.
eOrderSTL vs. DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats
The major delivery marketplaces offer tremendous consumer reach and can remain valuable sales channels for restaurants. eOrderSTL serves a different purpose: helping restaurants develop a more direct ordering and marketing channel.
| Feature | eOrderSTL | DoorDash | Grubhub | Uber Eats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online restaurant ordering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Delivery solutions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated restaurant ordering presence | ✓ | Available | Available | Available |
| Focused on St. Louis restaurants | ✓ | National | National | National |
| Dedicated SEO-focused restaurant website | ✓ | Online ordering tools available | Direct-ordering tools available | Webshop available |
| No competing restaurants on dedicated ordering page | ✓ | ✓ on direct-ordering product | ✓ on direct-ordering product | ✓ on Webshop |
| Local restaurant publication exposure | ✓ | — | — | — |
| STL.News exposure | ✓ | — | — | — |
| STL.Directory exposure | ✓ | — | — | — |
| St. Louis Restaurant Review exposure | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Email marketing support | ✓ | Marketing tools available | Marketing tools available | Marketing tools available |
| SMS marketing support | ✓ | Varies by product | Marketing tools available | Varies by product |
| Social media campaign support | ✓ | Primarily platform-based | Primarily platform-based | Primarily platform-based |
| Press release opportunities | ✓ | Not a core service | Not a core service | Not a core service |
| Local content marketing | ✓ | Not a core service | Not a core service | Not a core service |
| Personal local service | ✓ | National support | National support | National support |
Features and pricing offered by third-party platforms can change and may vary by market, product and restaurant agreement.
Why Restaurants Should Consider a Direct Ordering Strategy
DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats can introduce restaurants to customers who might otherwise never discover them. That reach has real value.
But restaurants don’t necessarily have to choose between marketplaces and direct ordering.
A stronger strategy is to use marketplace platforms for customer acquisition while developing a direct ordering channel for customers who already know and prefer the restaurant.
Consider a restaurant generating $10,000 per month in marketplace delivery sales.
At a 15% commission, that’s $1,500 before other applicable costs. At 25%, it represents $2,500. At 30%, it represents $3,000.
That is why building direct ordering volume can become increasingly important as a restaurant grows.
The goal isn’t necessarily to eliminate third-party marketplaces.
The goal is to avoid depending on them entirely.
Build Your Restaurant’s Digital Presence
eOrderSTL continually develops new technology, marketing strategies, and systems designed to improve participating restaurants’ online visibility and generate more orders.
Our approach combines:
Online ordering + AI-driven delivery + SEO + local media exposure + content marketing + social media + email + SMS + personal service.
Instead of relying on one app to generate orders, participating restaurants can develop a broader online presence built around their own restaurant.
Join the eOrderSTL Restaurant Network.
Your restaurant already works hard to earn loyal customers.
eOrderSTL helps you turn those customers into direct online orders while introducing your restaurant to new customers across our growing St. Louis digital network.
Get your restaurant online and discover what a locally focused restaurant ordering and marketing platform can do for your business.
Join eOrderSTL today.
Call or Text: 417-529-1133
Email: Marty@STLMedia.Agency