Delivery is Broken. We're Here to Fix It.
Drivers underpaid. Customers overcharged. Local businesses losing a chunk of every sale.
Dakota Dash flips the script: lower costs for customers, real pay for drivers, and no percentage cut from local stores.
Delivery the Dakota Way – fair, local, and honest.
⭐ The Truth About Big Delivery Apps
Most people have no idea how the system really works.
Drivers know. Restaurants know. The apps just don’t talk about it.
🛑 Drivers routinely get offered $2.50–$3.00 for 25–30 minute trips.
This isn’t a glitch — it’s standard. Reject too many and your account can get restricted. Accept them and you lose money.
🛑 Drivers survive on tips, not pay.
Base pay is often so low that tips are the only thing keeping drivers afloat.
🛑 The part nobody talks about: your tip doesn’t do what you think it does.
You tip to make sure your order gets delivered quickly and handled well.
But on the big platforms, that’s not how it works.
Apps often bundle your tipped order with a low-paying “free delivery” order from subscription programs.
Here’s what actually happens:
You tip generously to make sure your order gets delivered fast.
The app takes your tipped order and bundles it with a $0–$2 order.
The driver is forced to take both together.
Your tip is what makes the bad order worth accepting.
The app pays almost nothing… again.
And you unknowingly paid to deliver someone else’s food.
Your tip didn’t buy better service for you.
It bought the app a delivery they didn’t want to pay for.
🛑 Restaurants can lose up to 30% of each sale to delivery fees.
For many small businesses, those commissions cut directly into already thin margins. Some orders are barely worth making.
🛑 Theft at pickup is a real issue — and mostly ignored.
In busy restaurants, anyone can walk in and grab a bag off the counter.
When that happens:
The restaurant loses product.
The driver often gets blamed.
The customer complains.
And the app shrugs.
There’s very little built-in protection for anyone actually doing the work.
⭐ Dakota Dash Fixes These Problems
✔ Tips stay on your order — period.
We never use your tip to subsidize someone else’s delivery.
No hidden cross-subsidizing. No manipulated “bundles.”
✔ Drivers earn real pay per order — before tips.
No more $2.50 trips.
No more forcing drivers to rely on guilt-driven tipping just to survive.
✔ Restaurants keep their revenue — no percentage taken from food sales.
We don’t take a cut of your menu price.
Instead, we use a simple, transparent monthly plan.
No surprise deductions. No commission on every sale.
✔ Built-in theft prevention at pickup and dropoff.
Each order uses a driver-specific pickup code.
The restaurant enters that code into the tablet to reveal the order.
If the code doesn’t match, the system flags it instantly as a suspicious pickup attempt.
For dropoff, customers can use secure codes too — and if theft is ever reported, code-verified dropoff can be enforced on future deliveries.
✔ Customers pay less while drivers and restaurants earn more.
That’s delivery the Dakota Way: fair, honest, local.
How Dakota Dash Is Different
Customers Pay Less
No bloated “service fees,” no surprise charges. You see the price, you pay the price. Tipping is appreciated, but drivers don’t rely on tips just to survive.
Drivers Earn More
No $2.50 garbage orders. Real pay for real work. Transparent payouts — you’ll know what you earn without playing guessing games with “hidden tips.”
Local Businesses Keep Their Money
No commissions. No surprises.
A simple pricing model that respects your business.
A Movement Born From Everyday People
Dakota Dash didn’t start as a business plan.
It started as a feeling — the feeling every driver gets the moment they realize the system wasn’t built for them at all.
The feeling every small business owner gets when another delivery platform quietly takes a piece of their livelihood.
The feeling customers get when they see fees climbing higher and service dropping lower.
It’s the feeling of being squeezed… unheard… invisible.
So I decided to do something about it.
Not because I had investors or a team or some big corporate roadmap —
but because someone needed to stand up and say:
Enough.
Enough of drivers being treated like disposable labor.
Enough of local businesses giving up their profits just to survive.
Enough of customers paying more because someone else refused to pay fairly.
Dakota Dash was built from the ground up to be more than a company.
It’s a statement.
A rebellion.
A community rising together to take back what’s ours.
This is for the drivers who were told their time wasn’t worth anything.
For the ones who worked late nights, long miles, and came home with barely enough to fill their tank.
This is for the small businesses that built our neighborhoods.
The ones who got punished for trying to offer convenience.
The ones who fed us, sponsored our teams, and kept our towns alive.
This is for every customer who felt guilty tipping more just to make sure the driver didn’t get screwed.
For every person who wanted to support local — but had no real way to do it.
We deserve a system that honors the people who keep it running.
A system grounded in fairness, dignity, and community.
Dakota Dash is that system.
Not a corporation.
Not a middleman.
Not another app trying to squeeze every last cent from the people who actually do the work.
Dakota Dash is a movement back to what matters —
people helping people, communities supporting each other, and fairness as the foundation, not the exception.
This isn’t just delivery.
This is all of us saying:
“We can build something better, together.”
And we’re doing it — right here, right now.
For Drivers
Tired of chasing $2 orders and watching your car fall apart while corporate gets rich?
Dakota Dash is being built so you can make a real living in a growing industry — without depending entirely on tips.
For Local Restaurants & Stores
Stop giving away a percentage of every sale just to offer delivery.
With Dakota Dash, you keep your revenue, attract more customers, and support drivers in your own community.
Dakota Dash is Coming to South Dakota
We’re building this now. If you want to be first in line — as a driver, customer, or local business — drop your email and we’ll keep you in the loop. The plan is to start in Sioux Falls and expand from there.