For restaurants
A branded ordering app for restaurant takeaway and pickup
A Bite2Byte restaurant app is a takeaway and pickup app the restaurant owns, built to carry a large menu with variants and add-ons, pace the kitchen through service, and bring diners back with loyalty rewards. It works on web, iOS and Android, and orders are paid through the restaurant's own Stripe account, so takings arrive without marketplace commission.
The short answer
- Menus carry variants and add-ons, so dishes with sizes, sides or spice levels are ordered correctly.
- Pre-orders and scheduling give the kitchen a paced queue instead of a burst of simultaneous orders.
- Loyalty points, punch cards and milestone rewards bring diners back, and a till scanner covers orders taken in person.
- Payments settle into the restaurant's own Stripe account, with 0% marketplace commission on orders.
- A live orders dashboard keeps front-of-house and kitchen staff on the same queue during service.
Menus built for real restaurant complexity
A restaurant menu is rarely a flat list. There are proteins with a choice of sides, mains with spice levels, and add-ons that change the price. The menu manager is built for that: variants and add-ons are set per dish, and staff edit prices, descriptions and availability live, without touching code or waiting on a developer.
When a dish runs out mid-service it is snoozed in one tap, so it stops showing as orderable, then switched back on once the kitchen restocks. The same menu drives the customer ordering flow and the vendor dashboard staff work from.
What a restaurant gets
One branded app covers ordering, loyalty and the staff side of service.
Menu manager with variants and add-ons
Set up sizes, sides, spice levels and extras once, so complex dishes are ordered correctly every time.
Pre-orders and scheduling
Diners order ahead for a pickup time, which gives the kitchen a queue it can see coming.
Loyalty and punch cards
Points on every dollar, punch cards and milestone rewards, plus a barcode wallet card and a scanner so orders taken at the till earn points too.
Live orders dashboard
Front-of-house and kitchen staff work from one real-time queue as orders come in.
Promo codes
Percentage or fixed discounts with time windows, caps and minimum-order rules, for a quiet night or a set menu.
Payments via your own Stripe account
Takings settle directly to the restaurant, with 0% marketplace commission on orders.
Getting a restaurant online
Build, store submission, hosting and updates are all handled for you.
- 1
Hand over the menu
An existing Uber Eats or DoorDash listing, or a menu file, is imported with its photos, and each dish's variants and add-ons are set up.
- 2
Build and store submission
The branded app is built and submitted to the App Store and Google Play under the restaurant's own name.
- 3
Open for orders
Web ordering launches first and the native apps follow store review. Staff run service from the live orders dashboard.
Pacing the kitchen at peak service
Peak service is where ordering friction shows up: too many orders landing in the same minute, with no view of what is coming next. Pre-orders and scheduling spread that load, so the kitchen has a queue it can see ahead of time instead of a burst it has to react to.
The paced queue also tells staff what is due when, so a customer is not left at the counter waiting on an order that has not been started. Pickup and scheduled pre-orders are what run today. Native courier delivery, with instant quotes, dispatch and live tracking, is built into the platform and arrives with the public launch.
Questions, answered
- Can the app handle a large menu with variants and add-ons?
- Yes. The menu manager supports variants such as size or spice level and add-ons that change the price, so a complex dish is set up once and ordered correctly every time.
- Does the app do delivery as well as pickup?
- Pickup and scheduled pre-orders are live today. Native courier delivery, including instant quotes, dispatch and live tracking, is built into the platform and arrives with the public launch.
- How does the kitchen avoid being overwhelmed at peak times?
- Pre-orders and scheduling let customers choose a pickup time, so orders arrive as a paced queue on the live orders dashboard instead of landing on the kitchen all at once.
- Can we run promo codes for quieter nights?
- Yes. A promo code can be a percentage or a fixed discount, with time windows, caps and minimum-order rules, so a restaurant can target one night or one menu without discounting everything.
- Do we need a developer to set this up?
- No. The build, store submission, hosting and updates are handled as part of setup, and the menu manager and dashboard are made for restaurant staff to run day to day.
Walk through it for your restaurant
Book a demo and we will map your menu's variants and add-ons, then talk through pricing for your restaurant's size and volume.
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