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Grow your restaurant on Talabat, Deliveroo, Keeta, Noon Food and Careem

What we learn while running delivery storefronts every day: how listings get ranked, what makes a hungry customer tap, and the small fixes that keep a page healthy.

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Agencies · Costs

How to choose a Talabat and delivery app agency in Dubai: 9 questions to ask before you sign

An agency can rebuild your storefront and grow your orders, or cost you margin and access. Nine questions that separate the two, and how we answer them ourselves.

· 7 min read

Platforms

Deliveroo UAE is now part of DoorDash: what changes for restaurants

DoorDash now owns Deliveroo. A year later, the app has added table bookings in Dubai. What has changed for restaurants, what has not, and what to prepare.

· 5 min read

Rankings · Operations

Delivery app orders suddenly dropped? Nine things to check, in order

A sudden drop almost always has a cause you can find in one hour. Nine checks, from the fastest to the slowest, before you launch a discount.

· 6 min read

Platforms · Getting started

Keeta in the UAE one year on: what restaurants should know before joining

Launched in Dubai in September 2025, Keeta now covers the seven emirates. What it offers restaurants, who its programmes are for, and how to prepare your storefront.

· 5 min read

Platforms · Getting started

How to get your restaurant on Talabat, Deliveroo, Keeta and Noon Food in the UAE

Signing up is the easy part. What decides your first month is what the storefront looks like on the day it goes live. Here is what to prepare, in order.

· 6 min read

Money · Platforms

Talabat commission in the UAE: what you really keep per order

The rate in your contract is not what you keep. Real figures from invoices in Dubai, the lines owners miss, and a table to fill in with your own numbers.

· 6 min read

Platforms · Promotions

Talabat UAE in 2026: the programmes restaurants can use, and the ones to think twice about

Talabat UAE ran several programmes for restaurants in 2026. Here is what each one offered, who could join, and the questions we ask before a client signs up.

· 6 min read

Platforms · Costs

Talabat, Deliveroo, Keeta, Noon Food or Careem: which delivery apps should a UAE restaurant be on?

Five apps, five different audiences. What each one is, what restaurants really pay on it, and the order we open them in when a Dubai restaurant asks where to start.

· 7 min read

Platforms

How to give an agency access to your delivery apps without sharing your password

An agency asks for your Talabat login. Stop. There is a safer way, and any serious partner will use it.

· 4 min read

Rankings · Platforms

How to get more orders on Talabat in Dubai

Orders on Talabat come from four steps: being seen, being opened, being ordered, being ordered again. Find the one that leaks, and fix it before you pay for anything.

· 6 min read

Rankings · Platforms

How to rank higher on Noon Food in the UAE

Noon Food customers often came to the noon app for something else. Here is how to show up in front of them, and how to make them order once they do.

· 5 min read

Rankings · Platforms

How Deliveroo ranks restaurants in Dubai

Deliveroo is one of the few apps that writes down how it ranks restaurants. Here is what it says, in plain words, and what you can do with it in Dubai.

· 5 min read

Platforms · Costs

Keeta vs Noon Food: commissions and growth for restaurants in the UAE

Two challengers to Talabat and Deliveroo. What they really take per order, where their customers come from, and how to decide if one is worth opening.

· 6 min read

Menu · Platforms

Using Foodics, Deliverect or GrubTech? Edit your menu in the right place

You fixed a dish name on the app. Two days later, the old version is back. If you use a POS connection, here is why, and how to stop it.

· 4 min read

Menu · Platforms

How to optimize your menu visibility on Talabat

A customer opened your Talabat page. Will they see the dishes that make you money? A practical guide to the menu itself, category by category.

· 5 min read

Promotions · Costs

The real cost of a 50% discount on delivery apps

A big discount brings orders back. Used the wrong way, it makes you lose money on every one. Here is the maths, in dirhams, and the right way to use it.

· 5 min read

Rankings · Platforms

How delivery apps decide who shows up first

Ranking on Talabat, Deliveroo, Noon Food and Keeta is not luck. Here are the signals these apps read, and the ones you can actually change this week.

· 3 min read

Photography · Menu

Menu photos that get the tap

A practical checklist to run before your next shoot, and a way to judge the photos already sitting on your storefront today.

· 3 min read

Menu · Search

Naming dishes so customers can find them

Customers search inside delivery apps using the words they speak at home. Your menu should answer in the same words, without turning into a keyword list.

· 3 min read

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