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An ordering and service system for a restaurant: the floor, the kitchen and the menu working from one view of the evening.
- Dated
- 2025
- Product type
- Web application
- Technologies
- 4
The system, across devices
The short version
Why it exists.
Every build here answers a specific operational problem. This is the one it answers.
- 01
What was wrong
Orders written on pads and shouted through a hatch. The kitchen could not see what was coming, the floor could not see what was ready, and a sold-out dish was discovered by a waiter apologising for it.
- 02
What we built
Orders taken on the floor land in the kitchen as they are entered, with a prep queue that reflects what the kitchen can actually do, table state on one board, and a menu that marks an item unavailable everywhere at once.
- 03
What changes
The kitchen sees the evening before it arrives, the floor knows what is ready without asking, and an item taken off the menu disappears from every pad instantly.
What it does
The parts that matter.
Not a feature list — the four things this product is actually for.
Orders that arrive instantly
Entered on the floor, visible in the kitchen before the waiter has turned around.
A queue the kitchen can read
Prep ordered by what the kitchen can actually start, not by when the ticket was printed.
The floor on one board
Which tables are seated, waiting, served or ready to turn — without walking the room.
A menu with one source
Mark a dish unavailable once and it is gone from every screen taking orders.
How it is built
The technologies.
Chosen because they suit the problem and because a team other than ours can maintain them.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- WebSocket
This build has a full interactive system behind it in the showcase — the storefront, the operations side, and the connection between them.
Open the systemStart a project
You have seen what we build. Now let us build yours.
Tell us which part of the business you want to run better. We will come back with how we would approach it, what it would take, and whether we are the right people for it.
- 01An engineer reads the brief — not a sales inbox.
- 02You get a written response on approach, risk and rough shape of effort.
- 03If it looks like a fit, a call to pressure-test the scope.