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New York City, NY

Ghost Kitchens & Restaurant Delivery in New York City, NY

There are 45,519 restaurants in the New York-Newark-Jersey City 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.

New York City by the Numbers

Restaurant figures for the New York-Newark-Jersey City 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.

  • 45,519Restaurants in the metro area
  • 460,000Food delivery orders a day (est.)
  • 5,800New restaurants a year (est.)
  • 4,600Restaurant closures a year (est.)
  • 583,736Restaurant workers in the metro area

What Re-Typing Orders Costs in New York City

Every delivery order typed by hand from a tablet into the POS takes staff time. At an average restaurant wage of $22.22 an hour in the New York-Newark-Jersey City 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.

New York City order math
Average restaurant wage
$22.22/hr
Days open a year
360

Staff time spent re-typing orders, per year:

$10,666

What vGrubs Does for New York City Restaurants

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

Running a ghost kitchen in New York City? See vGrubs for ghost kitchens →

Where New York City Eats

New York is known for pizza by the slice, bagels and Jewish deli pastrami. Chelsea Market is a food hall in the former Nabisco factory, and Flushing and Jackson Heights in Queens are known for Chinese, South Asian and Latin American food.

  • East Village
  • West Village
  • Chinatown
  • Williamsburg
  • Flushing
  • Arthur Avenue

vGrubs works for restaurants in every part of New York City, from East Village to Arthur Avenue.

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 New York City 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 New York City 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City 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 New York City 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 $22.22 an hour in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area, re-typing 40 delivery orders a day at 2 minutes each costs about $10,666 a year in staff time. vGrubs sends those orders straight into your POS instead.

The minimum wage in New York City is $17.00 an hour (State of New York, New York City rate), in effect since January 1, 2026.

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

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