Thinking of Ordering From DoorDash? Order Direct Instead.
Same kitchen, same cooks, same menu prices—and a much bigger share of what you spend actually stays in Las Vegas. Here is exactly what changes when the order comes straight to us.
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The Best Mexican Food in Las Vegas, However You Found Us
If you came here looking for the best Mexican food in town, you landed in the right place—this is where you get the most delicious Mexican food you will ever taste, and it comes out of our kitchen on East Twain Avenue 24 hours a day.
Tacos on soft corn tortillas with onion and cilantro. Tortas gigantes that live up to the name. Quesadillas, flautas, burritos, soup served with lime and cilantro on the side, and aguas frescas poured straight from the vitrolero. Nothing on that list tastes any different depending on which app you came through—but what happens to your money does.
Thank you for landing here.
We know you were browsing DoorDash, or were about to, and we are genuinely grateful that you ended up on our page instead and are thinking about ordering from us directly. That one decision matters more to a independent taquería than most people realise. Here is the arithmetic behind why.
Where the Money Actually Goes
Delivery marketplaces charge on both ends of the same order—the restaurant on one side, you on the other. Stacked up, it can reach nearly half the value of what you ordered.
If the order goes through DoorDash
Up to 48% of one order
| Who pays it | What it is | How much |
|---|---|---|
| The restaurant | Marketplace commission | up to 30% |
| The restaurant | Card processing | about 3% |
| You | Service and delivery fees | up to 15% |
| Taken out of one order | up to 48% | |
DoorDash publishes three US partnership tiers at 15%, 25% and 30% commission. Card processing is roughly 3% on top. Then the service, delivery and small-order fees land on your side of the bill.
If you order direct from us
A small ordering fee
- A small ordering fee, and that is it. Nothing else is added.
- The restaurant pays no commission at all.
- Because of that, the menu prices are the same as calling us or walking in.
- What you spend stays with the kitchen, the staff and the neighborhood.
No tier, no plan, no commission. The small ordering fee is the whole story, and the food is priced exactly as it is on the board above our counter.
Ordering Direct Keeps the Money in Las Vegas
A commission does not stay in the neighborhood. It leaves it. When up to 30% of an order is taken off the top before we have paid for a single tortilla, that money goes to a company headquartered somewhere else entirely.
Order direct and it stays here—in wages for the people cooking at 3 a.m., in the produce and meat we buy, in the rent on a building on East Twain Avenue. That is what keeping money in the local economy actually looks like: not a slogan, just where the dollar sits at the end of the night.
Comparing the Other Apps?
We have written the same honest breakdown for each one. The names change; the shape of the stack does not.
DoorDash is a trademark of its respective owner. Las Famosas de Jose is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by DoorDash. The figures above are the upper end of commission and fee ranges that delivery marketplaces publish or that are widely reported; the exact rate depends on the platform, the plan a restaurant is on and the market. Our point is the shape of the stack, not a quote for any one order.
Skip the Middleman. Keep the Flavor.
Order straight from Las Famosas de Jose and pay a small ordering fee instead of a stack of them. Open 24 hours a day at 577 E Twain Ave.