Case Study · Uber Eats

A flat $6K,
doubled in six months.

Through all of 2025, Buckhead Pizza Co.’s Uber Eats sales sat flat around $6,000 a month with no marketing running on the platform. Management began in January 2026 and the account doubled in six months — without giving away the margin.

Concept
Pizzeria · Atlanta, GA
Channel
Uber Eats · Delivery
Sales growth
+105% · Jan–Jul 2026
Payout band
65–74% every month
01
The Results

Doubled, Not Discounted

+105%
Monthly sales
$6,506 → $13,307 · Jan to Jul 2026
+95%
Monthly orders
150 → 292 · June peak 343 (+129%)
~$41
Average ticket
Stable all year — growth is volume, not price
65–74%
Payout share
Every single month — margin protected
$13.5K
New plateau
May, June and July all cleared $13,300
~$29.7K
Above-baseline sales
On $6,354 of marketing investment
02
The Before

Twelve Flat Months

Through 2025, monthly Uber Eats sales averaged roughly $6,000 and never left the $4,900–$7,500 band. Orders ranged 126–173 per month. No marketing was running on the platform at all.

A note on sources: 2025 figures come from a manually maintained sales sheet, while 2026 figures come directly from Uber Eats reporting. To keep every claim on one consistent instrument, all growth figures here are measured within 2026 — the 2025 series is shown only as context for the starting point, and January 2026 ($6,506) matches that flat baseline almost exactly.

The Read
The break in the curve lands exactly where management started. Twelve flat months, then +29% in the first fully-managed month, then a new $13.3–13.5K plateau by May.
03
Month by Month

Orders, Sales & Payout

“Payout” is the money Uber actually deposits to the restaurant — gross sales minus commission, marketing and fees. It is the metric that decides whether the channel is profitable.

Month (2026)OrdersUber Eats SalesPayoutPayout %
January · management starts150$6,506$4,72273%
February217$8,407$6,23774%
March223$9,000$6,60873%
April281$10,982$7,71870%
May328$13,515$9,34669%
June343$13,528$9,42970%
July292$13,307$8,61065%
The Three Curves
Orders roughly doubled, sales more than doubled, and the payout share stayed in the 65–74% band the entire time — right where it sat before we invested a single marketing dollar. The growth did not cost the store its margin.
04
The Investment

A Dial, Turned Deliberately

Marketing on the account is a graduated offer program: start small, scale with proof.

Month (2026)Marketing investment% of salesSales
January$3014.6%$6,506
February–March~$300/mo3–4%$8,400–9,000
April–June$776–1,240/mo7–9%$11,000–13,500
July$2,64919.9%$13,307

Measured against January’s $6,506 run-rate, February through July produced roughly $29,700 in sales above baseline on $6,354 of total marketing investment. Uber additionally co-funded $614 in ad spend across the period, $531 of it in July.

July, Pushed
Investment scaled to $2,649 (19.9% of sales) and payout eased to 65% — the low end of the healthy band, and a deliberate test of how far the volume dial goes before margin complains.