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Restaurant Ordering & Kitchen Display System

Customers order from a QR code at the table or online. Orders appear instantly on kitchen screens, and the front of house sees status and takes payment.

ReactNode / ExpressMongoDBSocket.ioStripePWA
Guest menu on a phone, with modifiers
Kitchen display: new, preparing, ready
Owner reports: sales and prep time

Screens are illustrative layouts of the product, not client screenshots.

Overview

What it is

A QR-code ordering system with a kitchen display. Guests scan, order and pay at the table or online; tickets show up instantly on the right kitchen station; staff track status from a tablet.

The problem

Why it was needed

Paper tickets and shouted orders caused mistakes and slow tables, and third-party ordering apps took a large cut and owned the customer relationship.

Instantorders reach the right station in real time
Table or onlineone menu, two ways to order
Multi-sitereports per location

Features

What We Built

QR table ordering

Guests order and pay from their phone, no app to install.

Kitchen display

Tickets by station with timers, bump buttons and recall.

Menu management

Categories, modifiers, allergens and live availability.

Payments

Card payments and split bills through Stripe.

Staff tablet

Table status, call-waiter alerts and order edits.

Multi-location

Owner view across sites with sales and prep-time reports.

Architecture

How It Fits Together

  1. Guest PWAmenu, cart, pay
  2. Node / Express APIorders, menu, auth
  3. Socket.ioticket events
  4. Kitchen displayper-station screens
  5. MongoDBorders and menus
  6. Stripepayments

Order events fan out over WebSockets, so the kitchen, floor and guest all see the same status.

Roadmap

From Idea to Launch

A typical delivery roadmap for a project of this kind.

  1. 1

    Discovery

    1 week
    • Map the service flow and stations
    • Menu and modifier structure
    • Payment and tip rules
  2. 2

    Ordering app

    2 weeks
    • Guest PWA with QR table codes
    • Cart, modifiers and checkout
    • Menu admin
  3. 3

    Kitchen and floor

    2 weeks
    • Real-time kitchen display
    • Staff tablet view
    • Printer fallback
  4. 4

    Multi-location

    1-2 weeks
    • Tenant and site model
    • Reports and exports
    • Role permissions
  5. 5

    Launch

    1 week
    • Soft launch in one venue
    • Peak-hour load testing
    • Staff training

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