Round Rock, TX skyline editorial
LocationsWilliamson County, Texas2026-05-12

Dell's Hometown.How a Williamson County tech suburb feeds donut pilgrims, AAA baseball, and Austin's family overflow.

Round Rock sits fifteen miles north of Austin on Interstate 35, in Williamson County. The city was named for a literal round anthracite rock in the bed of Brushy Creek that marked a Chisholm Trail crossing in the 1850s. In 1994 Dell moved its global headquarters from Austin to a campus on Parmer Lane. The two anchors that followed, a 1926 donut shop and an AAA baseball stadium, together still outline the ordering economy of the city today.

The city in numbers
  • Combined sales tax8.25%
  • Dell HQ workforce~13,000
  • RRISD enrollment~52,000
  • Dell Diamond capacity8,500
  • Pop growth (5 yr)+18%
Section I

The campus, the diamond, the donut, and the rock.

Round Rock organizes itself around four anchors and one spine. Interstate 35 runs north-south through the city. North of University Boulevard, the Dell campus on Parmer Lane defines the corporate weekday economy. East of I-35 at Palm Valley, Dell Diamond hosts the Round Rock Express from April through September. South in Old Town, the literal round rock at the Brushy Creek crossing sits one block from the Mays Street donut shop that has been frying since 1926.

I-35 NORTHI-35 SOUTH → AUSTINBRUSHY CREEKTHE ROUND ROCK (1850s)DEKDELL HQ (Parmer Ln)DELL DIAMONDKALAHARIRR DONUTSOLD TOWNrockLA FRONTERATX STATE RROUTLETS @ RRNSWE

Round Rock anchor map. Dell HQ (north), Dell Diamond (east of I-35), Kalahari Resorts (Kenney Fort), Round Rock Donuts and Old Town (south of Brushy Creek), La Frontera (south I-35 at University), and the literal round rock that named the city. Not to scale.

Main north-south spine through Round Rock

Interstate 35

I-35 corridor

Six lanes plus access roads. The city's catering vehicles, Uber Direct couriers, and Express baseball game-day traffic all funnel along this spine.

Global headquarters, ~13,000 employees on campus

Dell Technologies HQ, Parmer Lane

Parmer Lane / North RR

Multi-building campus. Round 1 building, Round 7 building, and the Customer Solution Center. The largest corporate catering buyer in Williamson County by a wide margin.

AAA baseball stadium, ~8,500 capacity

Dell Diamond, Round Rock Express

Palm Valley Boulevard

Houston Astros AAA affiliate. April through September home schedule. July 4 fireworks game is the highest single-night volume of the year.

Indoor waterpark resort and convention center

Kalahari Resorts Round Rock

Kenney Fort Boulevard

Opened November 2020. One of the largest indoor waterparks in the United States. Conventions year-round, peak family weekends, in-room catering pull from neighboring restaurants.

Legendary glazed-donut institution since 1926

Round Rock Donuts (Mays Street)

Old Town

Cooking Channel featured. Daily 4 a.m. fryer start. The single most photographed orange-glaze ring in Williamson County. Drive-through plus inside line, year-round.

Main Street, City Hall, civic anchor

Old Town Round Rock historic district

Main Street / Round Rock Avenue

Pre-Dell historic core. The original round rock crossing at Brushy Creek sits one block south. Locally owned restaurants, walkable Main Street, and the civic anchor.

Regional retail and restaurant cluster

La Frontera shopping center

I-35 at University Boulevard

200-plus shops and restaurants. The dominant sit-down dining anchor on the south end of the city. National chain density layered with Round Rock independents.

Health-professions branch campus

Texas State University Round Rock campus

University Boulevard

Round Rock Higher Education Center. Smaller than the San Marcos main campus. Local lunch and study-session dinner pull from students and staff.

Historic low water crossing

Brushy Creek (the literal round rock)

Old Town

The literal large round anthracite rock in the bed of Brushy Creek that named the city. Marked the Chisholm Trail crossing in the 1850s. A National Register marker stands at the spot today.

Premium outlet shopping

Outlets at Round Rock

South I-35

Outlet mall with national restaurant chains at the perimeter. Saturday volume spike, weekday lull. Tour bus catering windows during the holiday season.

Section II

The Round Rock restaurant economy, six numbers wide.

Williamson County collects a half-percent local tax. Round Rock collects a full one percent on top of the Texas state 6.25 percent rate. The combined 8.25 percent is the rate every Round Rock restaurant remits on every prepared-food ticket. The other five numbers show where the demand sits.

The single biggest single corporate buyer in the metro is Dell. Roughly thirteen thousand employees on the Parmer Lane campus consume Dell-procured catering at scale, with predictable spikes around quarterly earnings windows and the September company kickoff. Outside Dell, RRISD with its fifty-two thousand K-12 students is the family-casual demand engine. The five-year population growth, plus eighteen percent, is housing-cost overflow from Austin walking up I-35.

restaurants in city limits

~620

Round Rock food-and-beverage establishments registered with the Williamson County health department, 2024 count. Includes full service, quick service, and on-premise foodservice at Kalahari, Dell Diamond, and the Outlets.

Source: Williamson County and City of Round Rock licensing rolls

median dinner check, family casual

$28.40

Field-sample median for two adults plus tip on a I-35 corridor family casual menu in 2024. Higher at La Frontera sit-down, lower at Old Town counter service. Tex-Mex platters bracket the median; sushi and steakhouse skew higher.

Source: DirectOrders Round Rock operator panel, 2024

combined sales tax on prepared food

8.25%

Texas state 6.25 percent plus Williamson County 0.5 percent plus City of Round Rock 1.0 percent. Round Rock collects city local sales tax in full. Restaurants must remit on prepared-food sales; pickup, delivery, and catering all fall under the same 8.25 percent rate.

Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, City Sales and Use Tax Rate table

Dell Technologies Round Rock workforce

~13,000

Dell global headquarters since 1994. The Parmer Lane campus is the city's largest single employer and the single largest corporate catering buyer in Williamson County. Quarterly earnings weeks and the September company kickoff drive predictable catering spikes.

Source: Dell Technologies Investor Relations, City of Round Rock economic development

RRISD K-12 enrollment

~52,000

Round Rock Independent School District is the largest district in Williamson County and the seventh-largest in Texas. The district feeds family-casual ordering patterns, weekday dinner pickup, and a strong Friday football and weekend tournament catering economy.

Source: Round Rock Independent School District public reports

Round Rock population growth, 5 years

+18%

Round Rock added population at a pace nearly triple the US average over the past five years, driven by Austin housing-cost overflow into Williamson County. The pattern is family households, dual-income tech workers, and a suburban dining demand profile.

Source: US Census Bureau ACS 2024, City of Round Rock planning department

Section III

Nine cuisine lanes feed Round Rock.

Round Rock cuisine reads like Austin's family-friendly suburban shadow with two distinctive surprises. The first surprise is the Indian cluster, sized by Dell tech-worker family demand and the I-35 South Asian community spanning Round Rock and Cedar Park. The second is the Filipino-American share, tied to UT Austin and tech-employer migration.

The lanes are not exclusive. The Tex-Mex chart slice captures both chain Tex-Mex and Mexican-Mexican rooms like Mesa Rosa. The American-casual lane includes burgers, family casual, and Round Rock independents.

Approximate share of Round Rock restaurants by cuisine0%5%10%15%20%25%22%American casual18%Tex-Mex11%BBQ10%Pizza9%Sushi8%Indian5%Filipino5%Italian12%Other

Approximate share by restaurant count, not by revenue. The actual revenue mix skews more heavily toward American casual and Tex-Mex.

American casual / burgers

22% share

Family-casual chains and Round Rock independents. Mighty Fine Burgers, The League Kitchen, Greenhouse Craft Food. Highest weeknight pickup share.

Tex-Mex / Mexican

18% share

Texican Cafe, Mesa Rosa, Salt Lick adjacent Tex-Mex grammar. The Hispanic share of Williamson County keeps the menu plural rather than chain-flattened.

BBQ (Texas style)

11% share

Salt Lick presence, Stiles Switch (Austin reference), Greenhouse smoke programs. Brisket, pork ribs, sausage, beef cheeks. Friday and Saturday peak.

Pizza

10% share

Mandola's, Mod, Pizza Hut founder-state density. Tuesday and Friday family-night peak. School-event group orders run high here.

Sushi / Japanese

9% share

Dell-adjacent demand. Lunch on weekdays, dinner across the I-35 corridor. Tech-worker office orders skew sushi for staff lunches.

Indian

8% share

Round Rock and Cedar Park together host one of Central Texas's largest South Indian communities. Dell tech-worker family demographic. Sun on the Rock, Tarka, Kanak. Weekend buffet plus weeknight pickup.

Filipino / Pan-Asian

5% share

Round Rock and Pflugerville together host a meaningful Filipino-American community linked to UT Austin and tech employers. Lechon, lumpia, halo-halo, Sunday family-meal orders.

Italian

5% share

Mandola's Italian Market, Carrabba's, family-owned trattorias. Sunday family meals and special-occasion sit-down.

Other (Mediterranean, Vietnamese, Thai)

12% share

Urban-Vegan, Vietnamese pho rooms, Thai counter service, Mediterranean grills. The long-tail spread reflects suburban dining maturity.

Section IV

The Round Rock operator year, anchored to baseball, Dell, and the school district.

Round Rock's restaurant calendar runs on four overlapping cycles. The Express baseball season at Dell Diamond runs April through September with a July 4 fireworks game that is the highest single-night volume of the year. Dell's quarterly earnings weeks plus the September company kickoff drive corporate-catering spikes. The RRISD school year sets the weekday family-casual rhythm. Kalahari Resorts feeds a year-round convention slate.

December is the single biggest civic month, driven by the Old Settler's Park Christmas lights drive-through and the Dell holiday catering peak.

Round Rock operator demand by month025507510065Jan70Feb78Mar88Apr92May90Jun100Jul88Aug94Sep86Oct82Nov96DecEXPRESS BASEBALL SEASON (APR-SEP)D = Dell earnings catering weekDDDDIntensity index 0 to 100. July is peak. December is the holiday spike.
Januarymid
  • Dell Q4 earnings catering week (late Jan to early Feb)
  • Kalahari convention slate kicks off year
  • RRISD spring semester returns, weekday family-casual rebuilds
Februarymid
  • Valentine's Day sit-down peak at La Frontera and Old Town
  • Dell fiscal year kickoff team dinners
  • Round Rock Chamber annual gala
Marchhigh
  • SXSW spillover from Austin (lodging overflow to RR hotels and Kalahari)
  • RRISD spring break catering and family travel
  • Texas Independence Day (March 2) civic events
Aprilhigh
  • Round Rock Express Opening Day at Dell Diamond
  • Chalk Walk Festival, Old Town
  • Dell Q1 earnings week catering pull
  • RRISD prom and end-of-year-event ramp
Maypeak
  • RRISD graduation week catering peak
  • Express baseball weekly home stands
  • Memorial Day Old Town events, BBQ pickup spike
  • Dell internal recognition events
Junepeak
  • Express baseball full-season volume
  • Kalahari summer-camp convention slate
  • Family-travel I-35 pull through Round Rock
  • Father's Day BBQ and steakhouse peak
Julypeak
  • Round Rock Express July 4 fireworks game, single highest-volume night
  • Frontier Days Old Town parade
  • Kalahari peak family-vacation week
  • Dell mid-year executive offsites
Augusthigh
  • Dell Q2 earnings catering week
  • RRISD back-to-school catering and meet-the-teacher events
  • Express baseball final regular-season home stands
  • Kalahari pre-school-year weekend overflow
Septemberpeak
  • Dell company kickoff (annual all-hands, multi-week catering pull)
  • RRISD Friday football schedule begins
  • Express baseball playoff push
  • Kalahari fall-conference window opens
Octoberhigh
  • RRISD homecoming and Friday-night football peak
  • Halloween Trick-or-Treat on Main Street, Old Town
  • Kalahari fall conventions and seasonal events
  • F1 Austin spillover lodging in Round Rock hotels
Novemberhigh
  • Dell Q3 earnings catering week
  • Thanksgiving Old Town tree lighting
  • Outlets at Round Rock holiday tour-bus catering
  • Kalahari Thanksgiving family-weekend peak
Decemberpeak
  • Christmas at Old Settler's Park lights drive-through (the single biggest civic event of the year)
  • Dell corporate holiday catering peak
  • RRISD winter break family travel and catering
  • Kalahari Christmas-week resort peak
Section V

Eleven restaurants outline the Round Rock food map.

These are not chosen by Yelp star count. They are chosen because they trace the four anchors of the city. Round Rock Donuts traces the donut pilgrimage. Salt Lick traces the Texas BBQ presence. Texican Cafe traces the suburban Tex-Mex sit-down. Sun on the Rock traces the South Asian Dell-tech-worker dinner economy. Each one tells you something about how a Round Rock kitchen plans a Friday night.

The Stiles Switch reference is intentional. The Austin BBQ canon and the Salt Lick canon together set the smoke grammar that Round Rock catering buyers source from for Dell company events and large RRISD tournaments. A Round Rock operator who does not have a relationship with a serious Austin or Driftwood smoker has a thin large-format catering offer.

Old Town / Mays Street100/100

Round Rock Donuts

Original orange-glazed yeast donut, 4 a.m. fryer cycle, since 1926

Featured on the Cooking Channel and Texas Monthly. Drive-through line wraps the block on weekends. The single most-photographed restaurant in Williamson County.

I-35 corridor80/100

Salt Lick BBQ presence (Round Rock satellite)

Driftwood-style Hill Country BBQ, post oak smoked brisket and ribs

Driftwood flagship runs the family-history brand. The Round Rock-area presence brings the Salt Lick grammar to Williamson County diners and catering buyers.

Williams Drive / north RR75/100

Texican Cafe Round Rock

Round Rock Tex-Mex institution, family-size combo platters

Multi-decade Williamson County restaurant. The reference Tex-Mex sit-down for Round Rock weekday dinner and weekend family gathering.

I-35 / Avery Ranch75/100

Mighty Fine Burgers

Texas-grown beef burger, hand-cut fries, fresh limeade

Austin-born family-casual burger brand. The Round Rock locations anchor a weeknight pickup pattern across the Williamson County family households.

Avery Ranch / Forest Creek65/100

The League Kitchen and Tavern

Family casual gastropub, brunch ordering for AYSO and Little League weekends

Round Rock weekend-sports family-anchor brand. Catering and to-go ordering scales with RRISD sports calendars.

Old Town / Round Rock Avenue60/100

Greenhouse Craft Food

Locally sourced craft menu, smoked-meat plates, weekday lunch peak

Old Town-anchored chef-driven kitchen. A reference of the post-Dell Round Rock dining maturity, sourced locally with a smoke program.

Round Rock Avenue45/100

Urban-Vegan

Plant-based menu, smoothie bowls, Buddha bowls, weekend brunch pull

Reflects the suburban-dining diversification across Williamson County and the dual-income family demand pattern.

La Frontera south / Avery Ranch60/100

Mandola's Italian Market

Family-owned Italian, fresh pasta, panini, gelato

Austin Mandola family brand with multiple Round Rock-area locations. The reference Italian sit-down across Williamson County weekends.

Sunrise Road / Brushy Creek55/100

Mesa Rosa Mexican Restaurant

Sit-down Mexican, fajita and combo plate grammar, weekend family ordering

Round Rock long-running family Mexican sit-down. A reference for the Williamson County Hispanic-Mexican dining diet, separate from the Tex-Mex chain template.

Round Rock Indian corridor60/100

Sun on the Rock

South Indian dosa, biryani, weekend buffet

Round Rock and Cedar Park anchor the Central Texas South Indian community. Sun on the Rock and nearby Tarka and Kanak rooms feed Dell-adjacent tech families.

Burnet Road, Austin (cross-reference)35/100

Stiles Switch BBQ (Austin reference)

Central Texas BBQ post-oak smoked brisket

Not in Round Rock proper, but Stiles Switch and the Austin BBQ scene set the smoke grammar that Round Rock catering buyers source from for company events.

Section VI

Seven Round Rock neighborhoods, seven different call mixes.

Old Town runs in English with a long-resident grammar. La Frontera runs in suburban-bilingual English and Spanish. Avery Ranch and Parmer Lane carry the highest South Asian share in Williamson County. Forest Creek and Teravista are the higher-income family suburbs. The neighborhood you operate in dictates the bilingual Voice AI config and the curbside pickup choreography your kitchen needs to ship on a Friday night.

The Parmer Lane corridor is the most distinctive lane. Roughly thirty percent of the inbound restaurant phone calls along Parmer come from South Asian admin assistants booking Dell catering for tech teams. A Voice AI offering that supports Hindi and Tamil in addition to English unlocks an order book that an English-only phone system cannot reach.

ZIP 78664

Old Town Round Rock (Main Street, Round Rock Avenue)

Round Rock Donuts, Greenhouse Craft Food, Urban-Vegan, the historic round rock at Brushy Creek, City Hall

English-first long-time-resident calls, weekday lunch crowd, Saturday foot traffic

Caller language mix

EN 70ES 15HI/TA 8FIL 4Other 3
ZIP 78664

La Frontera (south I-35 at University)

200-plus shops and restaurants, Mandola's, Texas Roadhouse, P.F. Chang's, regional sit-down chains

Suburban family English-Spanish bilingual, weekend dinner heavy, Texas State student lunch

Caller language mix

EN 58ES 24HI/TA 10FIL 5Other 3
ZIP 78664 / 78665

Forest Creek (golf community, east of I-35)

Forest Creek Golf Club, The League Kitchen, family-casual restaurants on Forest Creek Boulevard

Higher-income family English-first calls, weekend brunch, Sunday post-golf ordering

Caller language mix

EN 76ES 12HI/TA 7FIL 3Other 2
ZIP 78681

Brushy Creek (north central)

Brushy Creek Sports Park, family dining at Brushy Creek and Avery Ranch crossover

Suburban family heavy, RRISD school-zone English plus growing South Asian share

Caller language mix

EN 62ES 14HI/TA 18FIL 4Other 2
ZIP 78665

Teravista (golf community, southeast Round Rock)

Teravista Golf Club, suburban restaurant pads adjacent to Kalahari and Dell Diamond

Family suburban higher-income English-first, Express baseball weekend cross-pull

Caller language mix

EN 72ES 14HI/TA 9FIL 3Other 2
ZIP 78717 / 78613

Avery Ranch (west Round Rock crossing into Cedar Park)

Mighty Fine, Mandola's, The League Kitchen, family-casual restaurants on Parmer Lane

Younger families, Indian and South Asian heavy, Dell tech-worker dual-income pattern

Caller language mix

EN 50ES 12HI/TA 28FIL 6Other 4
ZIP 78664 / 78717

Parmer Lane / Dell campus corridor

Dell campus, corporate-catering pull, fast-casual lunch pads, sushi rooms, Indian and Vietnamese

Tech-worker lunch heavy, mid-day English-Hindi-Tamil-Mandarin, large-order catering for Dell events

Caller language mix

EN 48ES 10HI/TA 30FIL 7Other 5
Section VII

Three Round Rock operator profiles that DirectOrders is built for.

Each Round Rock operator profile carries a distinct shape of demand, a distinct shape of pain, and a distinct configuration of DirectOrders that solves it. The Old Town family restaurant is the most common. The Dell-adjacent corporate catering operator is the most concentrated. The I-35 family casual is the largest by total weeknight volume.

A common operator pattern in Round Rock is to start as the I-35 family casual, build a wedge of Dell catering through repeat admin-assistant bookings, and graduate into a hybrid that runs a dine-in floor plus a meaningful weekly corporate-catering book. That hybrid is the highest-margin Round Rock operator profile and the one that benefits most from the same-day payout treadmill and the multilingual Voice AI tooling.

Persona 1

The Old Town family restaurant

Main Street / Round Rock Avenue

Operator shape

Locally owned, sit-down with weekday counter-pickup volume, Old Town foot traffic plus Saturday tourist flow from the historic round rock and the donut line. Two POS terminals, one bartender, one host. Family operates the kitchen and the floor.

Pain today

DoorDash and Uber Eats together pull twenty-eight percent of every ticket out. The Friday and Saturday volume mostly comes from those apps. The owner has never owned the customer. The owner cannot text the regular about a pickup running late.

DirectOrders fit

DirectOrders branded ordering page from the restaurant's own URL, a tap-to-call number that routes to bilingual English-Spanish Voice AI for off-hours, Uber Direct stock-out fallback to the restaurant's runner first, same-day Stripe payouts on Sunday.

Persona 2

The Dell-adjacent corporate catering operator

Parmer Lane / north Round Rock

Operator shape

A six-to-twelve year-old catering kitchen that took off when Dell hit headcount scale. Standard offering is the platter board (sandwiches, salads, sliders), the breakfast box (egg, breakfast taco, fruit), and the Indian or Asian large-format tray for Dell tech-worker offsites. Average ticket $250 to $1,800. Lead time 24 to 48 hours.

Pain today

Dell procurement portals fragment ordering. Repeat buyers (admin assistants on a Dell team) want a single account they can spin up monthly invoices against. No single tool today offers Hindi-Tamil Voice AI for the South Asian admin-assistant population that books most of the recurring orders.

DirectOrders fit

DirectOrders corporate-catering portal with departmental invoicing, monthly statements, Hindi and Tamil bilingual Voice AI option for callers who prefer, calendar-blocked Dell campus delivery windows, and a chef console that flags the Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 earnings weeks plus the September company kickoff cycle.

Persona 3

The I-35 family casual

La Frontera / Avery Ranch / Forest Creek

Operator shape

A regional-chain or independent family-casual restaurant on the I-35 corridor. Weekday dinner driven by RRISD school-zone families. Weekend lunch driven by sports parents from Round Rock soccer fields, Round Rock Sports Center, and Brushy Creek Sports Park. To-go and curbside is forty to fifty percent of orders.

Pain today

On a typical Friday at 6:30 p.m. the host stand is on hold, the phone is ringing, and the curbside lot is full. Curbside arrivals do not match the POS. The team is stacking to-go bags on the bar. There is no way to predict the Saturday-morning sports-tournament catering ask until Friday night.

DirectOrders fit

DirectOrders curbside check-in with arrival pings to the line, RRISD calendar-aware catering windows that surface Friday-night football and Saturday tournament group orders, Voice AI that handles off-hours Friday calls about pickup timing, and same-day Stripe payouts every weeknight.

Section VIII

The Dell earnings catering cycle, four corporate waves a year.

Dell's fiscal year runs February through January. Four earnings calls a year drive predictable catering windows: late February (Q4 results), late May (Q1), late August (Q2), and late November (Q3). The week before each call, Dell internal teams run pre-brief sessions, working dinners, and conference-room lunches. The September company kickoff layered on top is the single largest non-earnings catering wave of the year, a multi-day all-hands that pulls catering from dozens of Round Rock kitchens at once.

An operator who configures their DirectOrders calendar to pre-stage these four windows wins repeat books from Dell admin assistants. An operator who treats each week as a flat baseline misses the volume.

Dell Round Rock corporate-catering pull, indexed025507510078Q4 (late Feb)82Q1 (late May)86Q2 (late Aug)80Q3 (late Nov)98SEP CO. KICKOFFWeeks of the calendar year. Blue bars are Dell quarterly earnings catering pull. Red bar is the September company kickoff. The line is the weekly baseline.
Section IX

Four languages, one phone line.

A Round Rock kitchen routing an Old Town pickup at 11 a.m., a Parmer Lane Dell catering ask at 1 p.m., and an Avery Ranch family dinner at 6 p.m. is fielding three different language contexts on the same phone line. English is the floor. Spanish is the second language of Williamson County. The Dell South Asian share makes Hindi and Tamil meaningful for any operator working the Parmer Lane corridor.

DirectOrders Voice AI ships English and Spanish on every plan. Hindi and Tamil are configurable for restaurants on the Dell corridor or with admin-assistant booking patterns. The phone tree picks the language from the caller's first sentence. No menu, no dial-1.

Languages on the Round Rock phone line

Englishincluded

~100 of EN baseline

Old Town long-time residents, RRISD families, Express baseball game-night callers, Kalahari guests

Spanishincluded

~65 of EN baseline

Williamson County Hispanic share, family-Mexican restaurants, Mesa Rosa diet, La Frontera weekend dinner

Hindiconfigurable

~40 of EN baseline

Dell tech-worker admin assistants, Parmer Lane corridor, weekend family-buffet bookings at Sun on the Rock and Tarka

Tamilconfigurable

~28 of EN baseline

Dell South Indian engineering community, recurring weekday office catering, biryani large-format orders

Filipino (Tagalog) optionalconfigurable

~14 of EN baseline

Round Rock and Pflugerville Filipino-American community, Sunday family-meal orders, lechon catering

Section X

The math on a $250 Round Rock catering order.

A typical Dell-adjacent catering ask is a $250 platter plus drinks for a team meeting on Parmer Lane. Through a third-party marketplace at a roughly twenty-seven percent take rate, the restaurant nets about $182. Through DirectOrders direct ordering, the restaurant pays the credit-card cost plus a flat platform fee, netting roughly $215. Stretched across a single Q1 earnings week with twelve such orders, the gap is about $400. Across a year of recurring Dell bookings, it pays for the whole platform several times over.

$250 corporate catering ticket, two channel costsMARKETPLACE (27% commission)$182 restaurant net$68 feeDIRECTORDERS (flat plan + card cost)$215 restaurant net$35+$33 per orderStretched across a year of Dell catering12 orders/wk × ~30 active wks × $33 saved = ~$11,880/yrDirectOrders plan at $249/mo = $2,988/yrNet to operator: ~$8,892 retained per year, before brand and CRM lift

Illustrative math at a $250 ticket with a 27 percent marketplace commission compared to a direct order paid through DirectOrders Stripe. Actual marketplace rates vary by deal and category. Card processing assumed at 2.9 percent plus $0.30 plus a flat platform amortization.

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References

Where the Round Rock numbers come from.

Every figure on this page traces to a public or operator-side source. The list below is the documentation trail. If a Round Rock number is missing a citation, it is a directional field estimate from the DirectOrders operator panel, flagged as such.

Sources verified May 2026. Restaurant and demographic data shifts; we resample twice yearly. Page last updated 2026-05-12.

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