How we make money

1 · Affiliate commissions

When you click through to some meal delivery services from our pages and make a purchase, we may earn a commission from that service or its affiliate network. This costs you nothing extra. Pages containing these links carry a disclosure near the first link.

• We link to services whether or not they pay us, and we include direct (non-commission) links where relevant.
• Commission rates and relationships never influence scores, rankings, or how prominently a brand appears. The scoring formula is public on our methodology page and contains no commercial input.
• We do not accept payment to write, improve, suppress or remove a review or score.

2 · Who owns this site

Because of that, we hold those two brands to stricter rules than everyone else:

• They are badged ("Owned by our parent company") every single place they appear — tables, lists, review pages, comparisons.
• They are permanently excluded from our ranked "best of" lists. They can have review pages scored by the identical public rubric, but they never occupy a rank position.
• Review data and moderation rules apply to them exactly as to every other brand — including negative findings, which we publish.

We don't describe this site as independent, and won't. What we can offer instead is something checkable: a published formula, dated and attributed sources, and own-brand exclusion from rankings.

3 · Advertising & featured placements

We may in future run display advertising or clearly-labelled "Featured" placements. If we do: featured placements will be labelled, shown in a fixed position that is not a rank, will not move when you sort a table, and will remain excluded from scores and "best of" claims. Display ads will be visually distinct from editorial content.

4 · What we compare

We track most, but not all, of the Australian meal delivery market — the current roster is on Brands we track, and that page notes the categories we don't yet cover. Absence from the roster means we haven't verified a brand's data yet, not that we recommend against it.