Perth and Kinross
What commission costs Crieff
There are 10 registered takeaways in Crieff. The delivery platforms have no drivers here — the takeaway loads its own car and pays the commission anyway.
How that number is worked out
The takeaway count is measured. The money is an estimate, and here is the whole of it: 7 of 10 takeaways assumed to be selling through a platform (70%), each taking 300 orders a month at a £20 average order.
- Commission at 16.8% including VAT — £12,096 a year
- The 50p per-order admin fee — £1,800
- The 99p service fee the customer pays — £3,564
£17,460 per takeaway, £122,220 across the town. Both pockets are local: the takeaway pays the first two, the customer pays the third, and all of it leaves. This is the same calculation the front-page calculator runs, so the two agree — check any postcode and see.
On ServeLogic those same 7 takeaways would pay £8,316 for the year — £113,904 staying in Crieff.
Takeaway counts from the Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Open Government Licence v3.0). Retrieved 2026-09-22. Source data.
Why the rate here is lower — and why that is not a saving
Commission is tiered by who delivers. In Glasgow the platforms run their own couriers, and a restaurant using them pays around 30% plus VAT. That is expensive, but it buys something: a delivery network the restaurant does not have to run.
In Crieff there is no such network and there never has been. So every takeaway here is on the self-delivery rate — about 16.8% including VAT on Just Eat, which is the typical one; Deliveroo is similar and Uber Eats a little lower. Roughly half the city rate.
That is not a discount. It is what is left after you supply the driver, the car, the fuel and the insurance yourself. The higher tier is not an option being turned down — it is not on offer at any price. What the lower rate buys is a listing and a checkout.
And every commissioned order still sends a share of a local sale out of the town it was cooked in, to a company that has never opened anything here.