Edinburgh’s independent food scene punches above its weight, but the 30 percent app commission is hitting Edinburgh restaurants exactly the way it hits everywhere else.

If your shop does £250 a day on Uber Eats or Deliveroo, you’re handing over £65 to £85 every single day to a platform that didn’t cook the food, didn’t pack it, and didn’t build the customer relationship. Over a year that’s £24,000 to £31,000 of margin gone.

MealShift is the commission-free alternative. We’re launching in Edinburgh this year and the priority postcodes are EH1 (Old Town), EH3 (New Town), EH8 (South Side and Newington) and the immediate surrounding areas.

Edinburgh-specific

Edinburgh has a sharper evening peak than most cities thanks to the hospitality and tourism economy. Restaurants here need delivery capacity that scales with the dinner-time wave without being held to a contract during the quiet hours.

That’s why per-drop pricing fits Edinburgh especially well. You pay only for the drops we actually do. No monthly minimum, no shift booking ahead, no contractual lock-in.

For the daytime cafe and lunch trade in EH3 and EH8, the bundle model (multiple drops grouped into one offer when they’re heading the same direction) keeps the per-order cost down even when individual order values are smaller.

Driving for MealShift in Edinburgh

Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt students looking for flexible income are a strong fit for our driver pool. So are seasoned couriers tired of generic gig-app dispatch that sends them across the city for one drop.

• Per-drop pay or fixed-hourly shifts, your call
• Bundles when two or more drops are going the same way, with bonus pay
• Dispatch starts in your home postcode
• Real human on WhatsApp, not a chatbot
• Car or van

WhatsApp +44 20 8089 1390 with your name and postcode to get on the first-wave list.