Hospitality & Food Direct Conversion 2026

Scaling Direct Revenue and Bypassing Third-Party Commissions

+145%DIRECT ORDERS
−28%APP RELIANCE

Scaling Direct Revenue & Bypassing Third-Party Commissions

Restructuring native ordering architecture and search intent capture to shift customer buying habits away from high-commission third-party aggregators.

The problem

The commercial bottleneck

Confidential Profile A multi-location premium burger and dessert brand in the Midlands. Identifying details withheld under commercial confidentiality.

The client was bleeding profit margins. While their daily order volume was high, over 70% of their transactions were processed through third-party delivery aggregators taking massive commission cuts.

Their native website was invisible for local search terms. When hungry users searched for their exact brand name, the aggregator websites ranked higher than the restaurant itself. Furthermore, the client's existing mobile checkout process was complicated, causing massive cart abandonment and forcing frustrated users back to the delivery apps.

Profit Drain (Aggregator Flow)
1. User Search Intent
2. Aggregator Directory App
3. 30% Margin Commission Cut
Direct Profit Machine (Our Engine)
1. Local SEO Interception
2. Frictionless Mobile Checkout
3. 100% Retained Profit Margin
The solution

The technical protocol

We executed a complete structural overhaul focused strictly on driving direct conversions and bypassing the aggregator platforms entirely.

Local Search Interception

We deployed advanced LocalBusiness schema markup and restructured their domain hierarchy. This forced the search engines to rank the client's actual website above the Just Eat and Deliveroo directory pages for their own branded search terms.

Branded SEOLocal SchemaDomain Restructuring

Frictionless Mobile Engineering

We stripped the bloated code from their native ordering system. We engineered a lightning-fast, mobile-optimised checkout process that allowed a user to place an order in under three clicks.

Mobile CROSpeed EngineeringUnder 3 Clicks

Direct Retention Campaigns

We deployed Meta Ads targeting their historical customer database with specific incentives to download the native app or order directly from the new website, actively shifting customer buying habits away from third-party platforms.

Meta AdsDatabase RetargetingApp Installs
Direct order growth dashboard showing upward revenue trajectory
Straight from the platform

The numbers, unedited

Direct order growth dashboard capturing total sales scale and customer acquisition retention across all target postcodes.

+145%
Direct Orders
−28%
App Reliance
<1.2s
Load Speed
The result

The data outcomes

By engineering their website into a high-converting primary sales asset, we fundamentally repaired their profit margins and reclaimed their customer data.

  1. Dramatically shifted user buying habits

    Resulting in a 145% increase in direct, commission-free online orders within 60 days.

  2. Secured absolute top organic ranking

    Pushed third-party aggregator platforms down the search results page for all branded queries.

  3. Eliminated mobile ordering friction

    Dropped mobile load times to under 1.2 seconds, bringing cart abandonment rates to an all-time low.

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