Oracle has announced that GloriaFood, the free WordPress ordering widget used by restaurants around the world, is being retired in 2027. If your menu, your orders and your bookings currently sit inside that hosted widget, now’s a sensible time to move them onto your own site — for free. DineKit is a free, open-source, native WordPress plugin: your menu, your online ordering, your table bookings, your payments and your customer data all live where they belong, on your own domain, not on someone else’s servers. It runs worldwide, and everything installs as one plugin — no upsell ladder.
Here are the facts, without the panic.
Oracle, which owns GloriaFood, has announced that the service is being retired in 2027. That’s the headline fact — we won’t guess at reasons or invent a precise date beyond that, because Oracle hasn’t published one.
What we do know is how GloriaFood was built, and why that matters now. GloriaFood was never a WordPress plugin in the true sense — it’s an embedded widget: a window on your website pointing at a system that runs entirely on Oracle’s own servers. Your menu, your order history and your customer details all lived over there, not on your site. That was fine while the lights were on. With a retirement date attached, it means every restaurant using it needs a plan for where that menu, those orders and those customers go next.
The good news is that switching doesn’t have to be disruptive, and it doesn’t have to cost anything. DineKit is a genuinely free, open-source WordPress plugin built to do the same job — menu, ordering, bookings, payments — natively, inside your own site, wherever in the world you trade. For a full feature-by-feature look at how the two compare, see our detailed GloriaFood alternative page.
An honest comparison of where each one stands.
| What you need | DineKit | GloriaFood |
|---|---|---|
| How it runs | Native WordPress plugin | Embedded widget on Oracle’s servers |
| Who owns the data | You — it lives in your own WordPress database | Oracle / GloriaFood |
| Price | Free & open-source, no upsell ladder | Free today — being retired in 2027 |
| Works worldwide | Yes — self-hosted, your own currency, menu display localised across ~43 countries, region-aware allergens | Hosted service, wherever it still runs |
| Commission-free online ordering | Free, live today — eat-in, takeaway and delivery, keep 100% | Yes, while the service lasts |
| Table bookings | Free, live today — floor plan, deposits, waitlist | Yes, while the service lasts |
| Card payments | Free, live today — your own Stripe account, Apple Pay + Google Pay | Yes, while the service lasts |
| POS | Full POS, free, live today — partial refunds and an editable service charge included | Paid add-on |
| Kitchen Display (KDS) | Free, live today — per-round coursing tickets, kitchen-TV mode | Not offered |
| Installable staff app | Free, live today — installable app (PWA) with multi-tablet live sync | Not offered |
| Loyalty | Free, live today — points earned and redeemed on the bill | Not offered |
| Support | Built-in support tickets inside the plugin, plus a wordpress.org forum | Vendor support, while the service lasts |
| Ongoing development | Actively developed | Being wound down |
Most restaurants can be fully moved across in an afternoon.
From Plugins → Add New in your WordPress dashboard, search “DineKit” and click Install, then Activate — or grab it from our download page. It’s free, with no sign-up ladder to climb, and it runs on any WordPress host anywhere in the world.
If your menu already lives in a spreadsheet, fill in DineKit’s CSV template and import it in one go — dishes, prices, descriptions, dietary tags, allergens and photo links — or type it straight into the builder. Either way you re-create your dishes, prices and allergens in DineKit’s menu builder, with region-aware allergen labelling — the UK’s 14 statutory allergens and Natasha’s Law are pre-seeded as one example, and you can add your own custom allergens for wherever you trade. Most menus take well under an hour, and you can print fresh QR table cards as soon as you’re done.
Turn on commission-free online ordering for eat-in, takeaway and delivery, and switch on table bookings. Connect your own Stripe account so card payments and deposits land in your bank, not a third party’s. See the full features overview for everything else that’s included — Kitchen Display, POS, loyalty, the installable staff app and more.
Publish your DineKit menu, point your QR codes and social links at it, and once you’re happy everything’s working, remove the GloriaFood widget from your site.
Moving off GloriaFood costs nothing and takes an afternoon. DineKit gives you the same menu, ordering, bookings and payments — plus a POS, Kitchen Display, loyalty and an installable staff app — free, open-source, and living on your own WordPress site for good, wherever in the world you trade.
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