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Houston, TX

Ghost Kitchens & Restaurant Delivery in Houston, TX

There are 12,942 restaurants in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area. vGrubs gives yours, or your ghost kitchen, one screen for DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, sends every order straight into your POS and adds virtual brands to the kitchen you already have.

Houston by the Numbers

Restaurant figures for the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Figures marked est. are worked out from that data; the sources at the foot of the page show how.

  • 12,942Restaurants in the metro area
  • 180,000Food delivery orders a day (est.)
  • 1,600New restaurants a year (est.)
  • 1,300Restaurant closures a year (est.)
  • 285,514Restaurant workers in the metro area

What Re-Typing Orders Costs in Houston

Every delivery order typed by hand from a tablet into the POS takes staff time. At an average restaurant wage of $14.70 an hour in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area, those minutes add up. vGrubs sends DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders straight into your POS, so that time goes back to your guests.

Houston order math
Average restaurant wage
$14.70/hr
Days open a year
360

Staff time spent re-typing orders, per year:

$7,056

What vGrubs Does for Houston Restaurants

Every part of delivery in one place: the apps, your POS, drivers, your own online ordering and support.

Running a ghost kitchen in Houston? See vGrubs for ghost kitchens →

Where Houston Eats

Houston is known for Tex-Mex, with fajitas popularized locally at the Original Ninfa's on Navigation Boulevard, and for Viet-Cajun crawfish. Chinatown along Bellaire Boulevard and the Mahatma Gandhi District are centers of Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian and Pakistani restaurants.

  • Montrose
  • The Heights
  • Chinatown
  • EaDo
  • Midtown
  • Rice Village

vGrubs works for restaurants in every part of Houston, from Montrose to Rice Village.

Bagel Boss

Bagel Boss

How Bagel Boss eliminated tablet chaos and cut order management overhead across all locations.

Before vGrubs, we had 4 tablets per location and someone dedicated just to managing orders. Now it's all in our POS automatically.
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Island Bagel Bar

Island Bagel Bar

Zero Missed Orders Since Day One

How Island Bagel Bar consolidated 5 delivery apps into one screen with zero hardware changes.

Setup was incredibly fast. We were live the same day. Our staff stopped juggling tablets immediately.
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Frequently asked questions.

Schedule a Free Demo

Start with a licensed commercial kitchen and a store on DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub for each brand you plan to sell. vGrubs then puts every brand and every app on one screen and sends each order to the kitchen as it arrives. Already running a Houston restaurant? You can skip the new kitchen: vGrubs adds delivery-only brands to the one you have.

Use the kitchen you already have. vGrubs matches proven virtual brands to what your Houston kitchen can cook, sets up their menus, pricing and listings on DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, and runs campaigns that bring customers to them. You cook the orders as usual, at no extra cost.

Yes. vGrubs brings your DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub orders onto one screen and into your POS, and vDrive sends your own delivery orders to Uber Direct, DoorDash Drive or another fleet for a flat fee, from $3.25 under 5 miles, with no commission.

Yes. vGrubs connects DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and more for restaurants anywhere in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area. Every order shows up on one screen or goes straight into your POS.

DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. vGrubs sends their orders straight into Toast, Clover, Square, Lightspeed and more, and Houston restaurants without a POS can use vTablet, one tablet for every delivery app.

Yes. vTablet puts every delivery app on one tablet that accepts and prints orders automatically, and your first vTablet and printer are free.

At an average restaurant wage of $14.70 an hour in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands metro area, re-typing 40 delivery orders a day at 2 minutes each costs about $7,056 a year in staff time. vGrubs sends those orders straight into your POS instead.

The minimum wage in Houston is $7.25 an hour (State of Texas), in effect since July 24, 2009.

Your vGrubs subscription is 100% free until it makes you more profitable, and there is no upfront cost.

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