Which Lunch Delivery Services Offer Corporate Accounts?
Short answer: which lunch delivery services offer corporate accounts? Four of them run dedicated programmes for office lunch. ezCater is catering-first, built for scheduled bulk orders and now rebranded as a full "workplace food platform." DoorDash for Business, Grubhub Corporate Accounts, and Uber Eats for Business are built for daily individual-employee ordering with one consolidated bill. Every one of them puts a marketplace — and a commission — between the office and the restaurant. There's a fifth option nobody selling you a login mentions: asking the restaurant to set up a corporate account with you, directly.
If you're an office manager who just typed that exact question into Google, here's exactly what each option costs and where going direct beats all four.
Which lunch delivery services offer corporate accounts?
ezCater, DoorDash for Business, Grubhub Corporate Accounts, and Uber Eats for Business are the four with a dedicated corporate/business programme — group ordering, spend budgets, and one consolidated invoice instead of forty individual expense claims. The sign-up section and comparison table below break down exactly how each one works, what it costs, and who it actually fits.
What a corporate account actually gets you
Before comparing platforms, it helps to know what you're buying — and what the benefits of a corporate account actually are versus everyone just expensing lunch individually. A corporate account is a specific bundle of features:
- Centralised invoicing. One monthly bill instead of forty employees expensing lunch individually.
- Spend controls. Per-person budgets, daily/monthly caps, and admin approval on what qualifies.
- Group ordering. One shared cart or one delivery window so the office isn't fielding fifteen separate couriers.
- An admin dashboard. Someone in the office can see who ordered what, set restaurant allow-lists, and pull reports.
Not every business needs all four. A five-person startup ordering lunch on Fridays needs group ordering and not much else. A 200-person office with an expense-policy audit trail needs all of it — which is exactly why the big platforms built enterprise tiers.
The four corporate-account platforms, compared
| Platform | Built for | Group ordering | Billing | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ezCater | Catering plus a recurring "Meal Program" (formerly Relish) meal plan | Order-ahead catering, or a recurring daily/weekly/monthly meal schedule with an average $15-per-meal subsidy (US figure — set your own budget outside the US) | Central dashboard, invoice-based | Offices that want catering and a rotating daily-meal option across 100,000+ US restaurants |
| DoorDash for Business | Daily individual meals + catering | Shared cart for small teams, with per-person budgets | Free to sign up, no minimum order — $0 delivery fees and reduced service fees on eligible orders, plus 5% credit back on pickup with DashPass for Employees | Teams wanting flexibility across restaurant choice with no signup cost |
| Grubhub Corporate Accounts | Daily meals, self-service or enterprise | Basic Group Orders (capped at 20 employees) or Scheduled Team Orders with admin checkout | Invoicing on Enterprise accounts | Larger orgs wanting expense-code reporting and a dedicated success manager |
| Uber Eats for Business | Daily meals, vouchers for events | Shared cart with auto-checkout and daily reminders | Corporate account, e-receipt forwarding (e.g. into Concur) | Multi-city or international teams — over 11,500 cities across 45 countries, with 1.2 million merchant partners |
Sources (as of August 2026): ezCater — Recurring Employee Meals, Grubhub for Business — Group Ordering, DoorDash for Business — DashPass for Employees, Uber Eats for Business.
Two things worth noticing in that table. ezCater started as the one most people mean when they say "catering," not "lunch delivery" — book ahead for Thursday's board meeting. In April 2026 it rebranded from a one-off catering marketplace into what it now calls an "enterprise-grade workplace food platform," folding recurring meal plans, spend management, and enterprise integrations into the same product. And none of the four platforms publish restaurant-side commission rates on their own marketing pages. Those are negotiated per merchant agreement, and usually only visible to the restaurant — not the office ordering from it.
How do I set up a corporate account for office lunch?
This is the part comparison articles usually skip, and it's the exact question behind most of the searches that land here. Signing up is faster than most office managers expect — none of the four require a sales call to get started at the self-service tier.
- DoorDash for Business — go to business.doordash.com, click "Get Started," and add a payment method. There's no signup fee and no minimum order, so you're ordering within minutes; no quote or sales rep needed at the self-service level.
- Uber Eats for Business — same pattern at uber.com/business: create an account, add a card or invoicing details, and invite employees. Larger teams needing Concur/expense-tool integration get routed to a sales contact for that setup.
- Grubhub Corporate Accounts — Basic Group Orders are self-service through Grubhub's own business signup, no sales call needed, but capped at 20 employees per order. Scheduled Team Orders and Enterprise tiers (the ones with a dedicated success manager and expense-code reporting) go through a request-a-quote form — that's the "can I get a quote" step most searchers are hitting.
- ezCater — build your first catering cart without signing in, but you'll need a free ezCater account (email and password, a few seconds) to complete checkout. For the recurring Meal Program, request it through their corporate-solutions team instead, which runs through a discovery call and account setup (users, subsidy amount, payment/invoicing) before you're live — closer to a guided onboarding than an instant self-serve signup.
The self-service tiers (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub Basic) are live the same day. The enterprise tiers (Grubhub Scheduled/Enterprise, ezCater's Meal Program) go through a quote request or discovery call first — plan for a short onboarding conversation, not an instant login.
What the office pays vs what the restaurant pays
A corporate account changes how you pay, not what the restaurant keeps — and that's easy to miss. The office side is often genuinely low-friction: DoorDash for Business charges no signup fee and no minimum order, and eligible orders get $0 delivery fees plus a 5% pickup credit through DashPass for Employees. You mainly pay for what employees actually order.
But the restaurant on the other end is still paying the platform's standard marketplace commission on every one of those orders, same as any other order through that app. On DoorDash specifically, that commission scales by service tier — we break the exact rates down order-by-order in our DoorDash commission math. That commission doesn't disappear because the order came through a "Business" account instead of the consumer app. It's baked into the same menu prices you're ordering from, which is one reason marketplace menu prices tend to run higher than a restaurant's own price list. Run your own numbers with the commission calculator before assuming a "Business" account is cheaper than it looks.
Restaurants know this. A lot of independent kitchens are already fielding office orders informally over WhatsApp or a phone number. Given the choice, they'd rather set up your company's account directly than eat another cut of every order (see the DoorDash commission math for exactly how much) for the privilege of being found in an app.
The catch with all four
None of this is a knock on ezCater, DoorDash, Grubhub or Uber Eats — they solve a real problem, especially at scale. But three trade-offs show up consistently for offices that outgrow the free trial:
- You're choosing from whoever's signed up, not who's actually good. Your restaurant options are whichever kitchens in your postcode opted into that specific marketplace — not necessarily the place your team actually likes.
- Commission is in the price, quietly. You won't see a separate "platform fee" line most of the time — it's already folded into what the restaurant charges on the app, versus what they'd charge you directly.
- Enterprise features often mean enterprise minimums or contracts. The features that make a corporate account worth having — dedicated support, expense-code reporting, a success manager — tend to sit behind the higher-tier plans, not the free self-service sign-up. Grubhub's own Basic tier caps out at 20 employees per order before you're pushed toward that quote-based Enterprise conversation.
The direct alternative nobody puts in a comparison table
Here's the option that doesn't show up when you search "corporate lunch delivery accounts." No marketplace has a reason to tell you about it. Ask the restaurant your office already orders from — or wants to — to set up a corporate account with you directly.
For a restaurant running a WhatsApp order line and a digital menu, this isn't a big lift. It's a dedicated WhatsApp number for office orders, a short "Office Lunch Menu" so nobody's choice-paralysed on a Monday, and a monthly invoice instead of forty card swipes. We cover the full restaurant-side setup — menu packaging, intake, and billing — in our corporate lunch orders playbook, and the deposit/invoicing mechanics for larger one-off orders in our catering and bulk orders guide.
What you get going direct that the marketplaces don't offer:
- No commission baked into the price — the restaurant isn't paying a delivery-app commission on every order, so there's more room to negotiate a fair office rate.
- No contract, no employee cap, no monthly minimum — it's an ongoing relationship with one kitchen, not a subscription to a network with a 20-person ceiling on group orders.
- A real relationship with the kitchen — special requests, dietary swaps, and rush orders go to a person who knows your office, not a support queue.
The trade-off is real too: you're now sourcing from one restaurant instead of choosing from a directory, and there's no polished admin dashboard unless the restaurant builds one. For a five-to-thirty-person office ordering from two or three regular spots, that trade is usually worth it. For a 500-person company across four cities that needs SAP Concur integration and per-department budget codes, it isn't — that's the job DoorDash for Business, Grubhub Enterprise, or Uber Eats for Business were built for.
When the marketplace platforms are still the better call
To be fair to them: some needs genuinely favour a marketplace over one kitchen. Restaurant variety across a whole city, expense-software integration out of the box, or the same ordering system standardised across multiple office locations — a marketplace corporate account does that job a single restaurant relationship can't. Uber Eats for Business covering over 11,500 cities across 45 countries exists precisely because "just ask the restaurant" doesn't scale past one office — that reach is also why Uber paused most of a planned 2026 European push (five of seven new markets shelved in July, per TechCrunch) to focus on the cities it already serves rather than losing it. Use the tool that matches the actual problem — this isn't an argument to cancel a corporate account that's working.
Frequently asked questions
Which lunch delivery services offer corporate accounts? ezCater, DoorDash for Business, Grubhub Corporate Accounts, and Uber Eats for Business all run dedicated corporate/business programmes with group ordering, budgets, and centralised billing.
How do I find a lunch delivery service with a corporate account? Start with the four above — they cover the vast majority of offices, from a five-person startup to a 500-person multi-city company. If none fits your city or restaurant mix, ask a restaurant your office already orders from whether they'll take a direct standing order with monthly invoicing instead.
How do I set up a corporate account for office lunch? On the self-service tiers (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub Basic) it's a business-portal signup and a payment method — active the same day, no sales call. See "How do I set up a corporate account for office lunch?" above for the platform-by-platform steps, including the direct-with-a-restaurant route.
Can I get a quote for a corporate account? Yes, on the enterprise tiers. Grubhub's Scheduled Team Orders and Enterprise plans, and ezCater's recurring Meal Program, both go through a request-a-quote or discovery-call step rather than instant sign-up — see the sign-up section above for which is which.
Does Grubhub have a corporate account? Yes — Grubhub Corporate Accounts covers both a self-service Basic Group Orders tier (capped at 20 employees per order, no sales call needed) and an Enterprise tier with expense-code reporting and a dedicated success manager, which is quote-based.
What are the benefits of a corporate account with a lunch delivery service? The main four: one consolidated invoice instead of forty individual expense claims, per-person spend budgets, one shared group cart instead of fifteen separate deliveries, and an admin dashboard for reporting. Not every office needs all four — a five-person team mostly just wants the shared cart.
Is there a minimum order for corporate lunch accounts? It depends on the platform and tier — DoorDash for Business, for example, has no stated minimum order requirement and no signup fee. Enterprise tiers with dedicated support may come with volume expectations. A direct arrangement with a restaurant is typically negotiated case by case, with no platform-imposed minimum at all.
So, which lunch delivery services offer corporate accounts? ezCater, DoorDash for Business, Grubhub Corporate Accounts, and Uber Eats for Business — pick by team size and city coverage, or skip the commission entirely and ask your regular kitchen to bill you directly.
If you're the restaurant reading this instead of the office manager, the corporate lunch orders playbook walks through exactly how to package and price this so it's worth doing. And our commission math shows why a direct office account tends to be one of the highest-margin things a small kitchen can add.