Where you can order

Layout does not have a partner list. It orders through the website the restaurant already runs, which is why the answer is usually yes, even for a single cafe nobody has heard of.

The short version

If a restaurant, cafe or coffee shop takes orders on its own website, Layout can almost certainly order from it, chains and independents alike. You do not need to check a list first: ask for the place by name and Layout tells you if it cannot reach it.

There is no city list either. Layout is not rolled out market by market, because the restaurant's own ordering site is the integration.

What stops an order

A handful of real limits, none of them about how big the restaurant is:

• No online ordering at all. A phone-only restaurant has nothing for Layout to drive.
• Ordering only inside the restaurant's own app. With no website checkout, there is no way in.
• The item is not sold online. Some restaurants publish a shorter menu online than the one on the wall.
• The store is closed. Layout checks hours, and a closed store is a no rather than an order that quietly fails.

The places pages

Layout keeps public pages for restaurants it knows about, grouped by city, at layout.link/places. They are useful for a browse, and they are not a limit: plenty of restaurants Layout can order from have no page there yet.

Business details on those pages, such as hours, ratings and reviews, come from Google and can be out of date. Prices and availability are confirmed against the restaurant's own site when you order, and that is the number on your receipt.

The help center keeps the current picture at where you can order. How Layout picks a store when you name a chain is in how an order works.