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FOOD & RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGY

Restaurant & Food Delivery Software Development, built for the Friday-night rush and the margins behind it.

We build the software that sits between a hungry customer and a hot plate: point-of-sale, kitchen display screens, delivery dispatch, and inventory that updates itself as dishes are sold. Our clients are operators who are tired of handing 20 to 35% of every order to a marketplace, and who want their online orders, kitchen line and couriers working from one live picture.

Restaurant & Food Delivery Software DevelopmentFRI 7:42 PM · RUSHYour app & websiteOnline orderingPOS counterDine-in & takeawayQR table orderTable 7 · scan & pay0% COMMISSIONDIRECT ORDERS + POSNEWCOOKINGREADY#1043QR T71× Margherita2× Lemonade00:48#1039POS1× Ramen bowl1× Gyoza06:12#1037App2× Tacos1× Churros08:55BAGGED#1042App2× Smash burger1× Fries#1042App00:1204:30READYKITCHEN DISPLAY SYSTEMOne live picture · tonightOrdersAvg ticket9m 40sCouriers outFood cost28.4%14614714814956/ 8Same $40.00 order · what you keepMarketplace−$12.00Direct (your stack)−$1.20kept per order+$10.80Dispatch · courier #6Jane · 2.1 kmETA 12 minDELIVERED ✓DELIVERY DISPATCHInventory · auto-deducted per dishBurger buns6462−2Beef patties5856−2Fries (kg)24%18%−6%!Fries below parPO #318 auto-sent to supplier#1042#1044#1045pickup
$470B
Projected global online food delivery and cloud-kitchen market by 2028
<3 Sec
Our design target for an online order to appear on the kitchen screen
1 Screen
In-store, app, phone and aggregator orders on a single kitchen display
Up to 30%
Marketplace commission you can win back on direct orders
THE MARKET SIGNAL

From aggregator dependency, to owning your own guest relationships.

A restaurant that sells only through delivery marketplaces can lose up to a third of every ticket, and never learns who its customers are. The operators doing best right now have built their own ordering channel, tied courier dispatch to what the kitchen is really cooking, and connected their inventory to the till.

01 · FIRST-PARTY ORDERINGGlobal Shift
$182B

Projected direct-to-consumer digital restaurant orders by 2027

Guests will happily order straight from a restaurant's own app or site when the rewards are good and the delivery is accurate.

OPERATIONAL REALITY

Every order that comes through your own app saves 25 to 30% in platform fees, and the guest's order history lands in your CRM instead of someone else's.

02 · GHOST KITCHEN DENSITYKitchen Efficiency
4–8

Virtual brands a single cloud kitchen commonly runs from one footprint

Running several brands out of one kitchen only works if the display software paces work by cooking station, not by which app the order came from.

OPERATIONAL REALITY

One consolidated kitchen screen stops station bottlenecks and duplicate tickets when the dinner rush hits.

03 · LABOR & INVENTORY SQUEEZEMargin Pressure
4–10%

Share of purchased food that never reaches a customer's plate

Ingredient prices move, prep logs get filled in from memory, and shrinkage goes unnoticed until the month-end count. Recipe-level depletion makes it visible as it happens.

OPERATIONAL REALITY

When every POS sale deducts its recipe from stock, reorders can trigger before the walk-in runs dry, not after.

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WHAT'S DRIVING DEMAND

The pressures reshaping how restaurants make money.

High commissions, thin kitchen margins, staff turnover and orders arriving from five different places at once. Restaurants need software that connects the front of house to the back of house, so that hospitality and kitchen efficiency stop pulling in opposite directions.
01 · AGGREGATOR COMMISSIONS

Taking Orders Back from the Marketplaces

Delivery apps typically keep 20 to 35% of each order, and they keep the customer's contact details too. A branded app and web storefront win back that margin and give you a guest list you actually own.

02 · OMNICHANNEL TICKETING

One Queue for Every Order

A counter with separate tablets for Uber Eats, DoorDash, the phone line and dine-in is exactly where tickets get lost. We pull every channel into one ingestion layer and route each ticket to the right kitchen station.

03 · DYNAMIC DRIVER DISPATCH

Couriers Who Arrive When the Food Does

Send a driver too early and they crowd your pickup shelf. Send them too late and the food sits. Prep estimates tied to live kitchen load let us time dispatch to when plating actually finishes.

04 · RECIPE INVENTORY DEPLETION

Stock Counts That Keep Up with the Menu

A weekly count can't keep pace with a busy weekend. Deducting the grams of cheese, protein and produce in every ticket gives managers a running cost-of-goods figure instead of a month-end surprise.

05 · KIOSK & QR DINE-IN

Ordering at the Table Without Waiting for a Server

When you're short-staffed at 8pm, tables wait. QR ordering, split-bill payment and self-order kiosks keep tables turning, and well-timed upsell prompts tend to lift average order value.

06 · LOYALTY & PERSONALIZATION

Loyalty Programs Guests Actually Use

Paper punch cards rarely survive a wallet. Rewards tied to ordering habits, dietary tags and local offers give guests a reason to come back sooner.

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SOFTWARE WE SHIP

Production-grade food tech for franchises, QSRs and cloud kitchens.

From a point-of-sale that keeps working when the Wi-Fi doesn't, to cold-chain sensors that write your HACCP logs for you, we build distributed software that holds up during the busiest hour of the week.

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SYSTEM TOPOLOGY

Unified POS & Payment Terminal Engine

A cloud-connected POS with split billing, offline transaction queuing, hardware peripheral support and live terminal sync across the floor.

PRODUCTION PIPELINE FLOWLIVE TELEMETRY
PHYSICAL POS
In-Store POS
Hardware Barcode Scanners
REAL-TIME SYNC
Sync Engine
Sub-Second WebSockets
CENTRAL TRUTH
Central Odoo ERP
Warehouse & 12K SKUs
PROVEN OUTCOME
Electron, React Native, Go, Stripe Terminal, SQLite.
Enterprise Scale Deployment

Engineered for sub-second response times and complete multi-tenant isolation under peak operational loads.

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APPLIED FOOD AI

Practical machine learning working inside real kitchens.

We add models to order intake and prep workflows where they cut waste or save a cook's time: forecasting rushes, pacing couriers, checking packed orders and tuning the digital menu.

01 · DEMAND & PREP VOLUME FORECASTING

Weather- and Event-Aware Prep Prediction

Time-series models that read your historical POS data, local events and the weather forecast to estimate how many of each dish you'll sell hour by hour.

Production ReadySub-second SLA
02 · PREDICTIVE COOK-TIME & DISPATCH SYNCHRONIZATION

Kitchen Pacing and Dynamic ETA Engine

Models that combine ticket state and, where cameras are installed, kitchen vision to predict when plating will finish, so the courier is called at the right moment.

Production ReadySub-second SLA
03 · VISUAL QUALITY & PORTION CONTROL INSPECTION

Camera-Assisted Check at the Packing Station

Edge cameras above the pack line that check trays for missing drinks, sauces and sides, and for portions that are off.

Production ReadySub-second SLA
04 · DYNAMIC MENU ENGINEERING & SURGE MARGINS

Margin-Aware Menu Layout and Item Ordering

Reinforcement-learning experiments on item position, pairings and bundles, constrained by kitchen capacity and how long ingredients will keep.

Production ReadySub-second SLA
UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE 01 · REAL-TIME ORDER ROUTING

Omni-Channel Kitchen Prep & Dynamic Dispatch Pipeline.

How online storefronts, in-store QR kiosks, and aggregator webhooks converge into one normalized ticket queue, paced across hot and cold prep stations with zero counter clutter.

Step 01

Ingestion & Normalize

DoorDash, Uber Eats, branded iOS/Android apps, and dine-in QR orders land in a single webhook gateway. Customer notes and modifiers map to universal internal SKUs.

Step 02

Station-Split & Pacing

Items split automatically: grill tickets, fryer orders, and cold bar items route to dedicated touchscreen KDS units. Cook timers sync so all components finish simultaneously.

Step 03

Assembly & QC Check

Packing station display shows full order check. Overhead camera vision checks bags for missing sides and drink cups before bag sealing and receipt stapling.

Step 04

Timed Driver Hand-off

Courier dispatch triggers dynamically when order is 3 minutes from plating. Couriers walk in as bag hits the warm shelf, slashing curbside wait time by ~8 minutes.

INTERACTIVE MARGIN SIMULATOR

Recipe Depletion & Waste Savings Calculator.

See how replacing periodic manual inventory counts with real-time recipe ingredient depletion and predictive weather-based prep schedules recovers lost food margin.

OPERATIONAL STORE COUNT12 Locations
AVERAGE MONTHLY FOOD SPEND / STORE$25,000
Annual Gross Food Cost$3,600,000
Target Recoverable Food Margin (4.2%)$151,200
Over-PortioningStandardized recipe cards on prep stations reduce portion variance by 1.8%.
Spoilage EliminationWeather-linked prep forecast avoids over-thawing bulk proteins.
Automated ReorderingSuppliers receive EDI orders when depleted inventory crosses PAR limits.
FEATURED WORK & CASE STUDIES

Proven track record with industry leaders.

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FOOD AND RESTAURANT TRANSFORMATIONStandards we build to: PCI-DSS (card data handled through certified payment processors)100% Milestone Delivery

Terraza Montemar: Odoo restaurant POS with AI table delivery and ATH Móvil

A Puerto Rico seafood restaurant runs on a custom Odoo POS: kitchen display and printer, an AI app that assigns waiters to deliver ready dishes, QR tipping on bills and ATH Móvil payments.

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THE FOOD & RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE

Built by engineers who understand the operational reality of this industry.

We don't ship generic boilerplate software. Our architectures are modeled on the real physical constraints, low-latency protocols, and stringent compliance requirements of your vertical.

01ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Mission-Critical Reliability Under Load

Systems designed with distributed resilience, graceful offline degradation, and high-concurrency event brokers to eliminate outages during peak demand cycles.

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02REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

Compliance Built into the Core Schema

Architectures natively mapped to Standards we build to: PCI-DSS (card data handled through certified payment processors) and global data privacy standards, ensuring audit-readiness from day one.

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03INTEGRATION FLUENCY

Direct API & Hardware Peripheral Sync

Seamless integration with third-party aggregators, legacy ERPs, payment gateways, and hardware telemetry without fragile middleware layers.

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04OPERATIONAL UX

Frictionless Ergonomics for Field & Staff

High-contrast, responsive interfaces optimized for rapid keystrokes, touch terminals, and cross-platform mobile access in high-pressure operational environments.

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05PRIVATE AI GOVERNANCE

Deterministic AI with Complete Audit Trails

Predictive and generative AI workflows governed by human-in-the-loop review, strict confidence thresholds, and dedicated zero-retention private endpoints.

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06TOTAL IP OWNERSHIP

100% Contractual IP Ownership & Source Code

Every line of code, Docker file, CI/CD pipeline, and database schema belongs unconditionally to your organization from the first commit.

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— FOOD & RESTAURANT TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURAL FAQS

Answers for CTOs, Operations Heads, and Enterprise Founders.

Our POS and KDS stations are offline-first. They use a local SQLite database and discover each other over the local network (mDNS), so tickets keep printing and cooking. Transactions queue in the background and sync once broadband or cellular failover is back.
PROCESS

Idea to Market–Ready Product

We turn your idea into a secure, compliant, and test-ready product in weeks, not months.

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Day 1 – 2

Inquiry & Scoping

We rapidly decompose requirements, pressure-test commercial viability, and align technical scope before capital is committed.

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