Grubhub API
Grubhub's developer portal documents a full Marketplace API with webhooks, but credentials arrive only after a partner form, kickoff call and pilot. Auth is a bespoke HMAC MAC header rather than OAuth, and there is no self-serve sandbox or SDK.
Frequently asked questions
Grubhub scores D on Supergood's API Report Card. Grubhub's developer portal documents a full Marketplace API with webhooks, but credentials arrive only after a partner form, kickoff call and pilot. Auth is a bespoke HMAC MAC header rather than OAuth, and there is no self-serve sandbox or SDK.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Grubhub is a US food ordering and delivery marketplace founded in Chicago in 2004, merged with Seamless in 2013, acquired by Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021 for $7.3 billion and sold to Wonder Group (Marc Lore's food hall and delivery company) on January 7, 2025 for an enterprise value of $650 million including $500 million of senior notes.
Restaurants & Food Service, with campus dining, corporate ordering and some retail. Restaurants receive Grubhub orders on a tablet, by fax or phone, or directly in a POS through an integration; managers update menus and hours in Grubhub for Restaurants (or in the POS once integrated), run promotions, review weekly statements, dispute refund adjustments within 30 days and respond to reviews.
375,000 merchants in over 4,000 US cities per the November 2024 acquisition announcement, but only about 6.3 percent of US food delivery sales at the end of 2024 (Earnest Analytics), a distant third to DoorDash and Uber Eats and shrinking.
Menus and prices, merchant hours and delivery boundaries, orders with diner names, addresses, phone numbers and special instructions (PII), driver location and ETA data, order adjustments and refunds, promotions, payout statements and reporting.
Twenty-two year old company. The MAC authentication scheme and /pos/v1 endpoints date from the 2015 era (sample client IDs carry 2015 issue dates), and an older Zendesk help center still hosts parallel documentation.
A small restaurant owner who chose the 15 percent commission tier found they were effectively paying about 35 percent of sales once delivery and service fees were added. An owner could not see how much the restaurant had earned in the merchant app and had to call Grubhub to find out. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include DoorDash, Uber Eats, Olo, ChowNow, Toast. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. There is no official Grubhub MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Grubhub doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.