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While others feed the platforms. These restaurants own their revenue.

Over 500 independent restaurants stopped splitting their earnings with DoorDash, Grubhub, and Clover. They switched to Innowi. They kept the money. Here's proof.

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FEATURED - CASE STUDY · DEC 2023 – DEC 2025

How Pho Ha Plus saved $28,932 in 3rd-party delivery app fees and took back control of online orders

Pho Ha Plus partnered with Innowi in December 2023 to reduce reliance on costly third-party delivery apps and grow direct customer engagement. Two years later, the numbers tell the full story.

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Dec 2023 – Dec 2025
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At 20% fees
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The challenge

Pho Ha Plus had been serving the San Jose community since 2018. By 2023, a large and growing share of their online orders came through DoorDash and UberEats, which meant a large and growing share of their revenue was leaving the restaurant before Ivy Tran could do anything
about it.

Third-party commissions were eating 20–28% of every delivery order. Beyond the cost, Ivy had no visibility into who her delivery customers actually were. No email address, no phone number, no order history, all of that data belonged to the platforms, not to her restaurant.

We wanted to reduce our dependence on third-party delivery apps and have more control over our online orders. We felt like we were working for DoorDash instead of for ourselves.
Ivy Tran, Owner · Pho Ha Plus

The solution

Pho Ha Plus partnered with Innowi in December 2023. The transition took 48 hours. Innowi implemented a fully branded direct ordering experience on Pho Ha Plus’s own domain — customers could order directly, pay directly, and Ivy kept 100% of the order value.

What Innowi implemented
Branded website with direct online ordering, Google Business Profile optimisation, local SEO, email and SMS retention campaigns, loyalty and rewards program, and social media support, all managed through the Innowi platform.

Before Innowi

Heavy reliance on DoorDash and UberEats for all online orders
20–28% commission on every delivery order
Zero ownership of customer data, emails, phones, history
No way to re-market to existing customers directly
Invisible on Google, no optimised Business Profile

After Innowi

Branded direct ordering page, zero commission
Full customer database, every direct order captured
SMS and email campaigns driving repeat visits
Loyalty program, points on every order
Google Business Profile optimised, calls and traffic up

The results - Two years later

Two years after the switch, the cumulative results are clear. Pho Ha Plus generated $144,662 in direct online sales across 3,174 direct orders sales that would previously have had $28,932 removed by third-party platform commissions before Ivy saw a cent of it.

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Online orders placed Directly
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Google visibility - the second win
Beyond the direct ordering savings, Innowi's Google Business Profile optimisation and local SEO work produced a second measurable outcome: Pho Ha Plus became significantly more discoverable online.
Calls from Google
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Direction requests
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Website clicks
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The customer experience

Customers noticed the change too. Ivy reports that feedback on the ordering experience has been consistently positive — the branded page is faster, cleaner, and more intuitive than ordering through a third-party app. The absence of competing restaurant ads on the Innowi ordering page means customers who arrive intending to order from Pho Ha Plus actually order from Pho Ha Plus.

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