Restaurant Discovery & Smart Ordering Platform

A customer-facing restaurant platform combining discovery, QR dine-in ordering, pickup, shared carts, payments, reservations, reviews, and real-time order experiences.

Restaurant Discovery & Smart Ordering Platform project

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About the project

A modern restaurant discovery and ordering experience designed around the complete customer journey. Users can discover restaurants, explore menus, reserve tables, order through QR-based table sessions or pickup workflows, collaborate on shared orders, split payments, track orders, manage their account, and receive real-time updates across a multilingual interface.

Platform

Digital Business Platform

Frontend

React / Vite

Focus

SaaS · Commerce · Content

Problem Statement

Restaurant customers often move between separate tools for discovery, menus, reservations, ordering, payments, receipts, and reviews. Dine-in groups also face friction when sharing orders and dividing payments. The challenge was to create a connected experience that supports both individual customers and collaborative table sessions while remaining fast, accessible, and easy to use.

Solution

Built a customer-focused restaurant platform that unifies discovery, reservations, QR dine-in ordering, pickup, menu customization, collaborative carts, order management, split payments, Stripe and cash payments, real-time notifications, reviews, receipts, favorites, account settings, and multilingual experiences through reusable domain-driven workflows.

Strategic Impact

Creates a connected digital restaurant journey from discovery through post-order engagement, reducing friction across dine-in and takeaway experiences while providing a scalable frontend architecture for restaurant commerce, payments, customer engagement, and international expansion.

Key Features

A complete restaurant customer experience covering discovery, reservations, ordering, collaborative dining, payments, tracking, reviews, and account management.

Restaurant Discovery

Search restaurants using location, cuisine, price, service, rating, and distance filters with sorting and pagination.

Map-Based Discovery

Explore nearby restaurants through geolocation-aware search, interactive maps, and restaurant markers.

Restaurant Details

Explore restaurant information, menus, categories, offers, reviews, ratings, payment options, locations, and contact details.

Table Reservations

Create, review, manage, and cancel restaurant reservations directly from the customer experience.

QR Dine-In Ordering

Scan restaurant and table QR codes to start secure digital dining sessions and access table-specific ordering.

Shared Table Sessions

Multiple customers can join the same dining session using a PIN and participate in collaborative table ordering.

Digital Menu

Browse categories and products with search, dietary filters, allergens, nutrition details, reviews, and customization options.

Shared Cart

Add, update, customize, and remove items while supporting participant-aware carts and synchronized order summaries.

Order Management

Create draft orders, modify selections, confirm orders, access history, and monitor active restaurant orders.

Split Payments

Select individual orders or items, assign payments, pay for another participant, add tips, and prevent payment conflicts.

Flexible Payments

Support card and wallet payments through Stripe alongside restaurant cash-payment requests.

Pickup Ordering

Place takeaway orders with scheduled pickup times, persistent sessions, menu customization, cart, payment, and tracking.

Live Order Tracking

Follow active orders through dedicated tracking experiences for both dine-in and pickup workflows.

Real-Time Notifications

Receive customer-specific updates through resilient real-time channels with reconnection and synchronization handling.

Reviews & Ratings

Submit restaurant, session, and item reviews with ratings, written feedback, images, editing, and deletion.

Favorite Restaurants

Save preferred restaurants to a personal favorites collection for faster future access.

Customer Account

Manage profile details, profile images, email, phone number, password, preferences, and account information.

Order History

Access previous orders, detailed order information, receipts, invoices, and historical customer activity.

Receipts & Invoices

View localized transaction documents and generate downloadable receipt and invoice files.

Multilingual Experience

Localized navigation, content, metadata, API requests, and RTL support provide an international customer experience.

Authentication & Security

Email authentication, OTP verification, Google OAuth, password recovery, protected experiences, and secure session handling.

Accessibility Controls

Persistent theme and font scaling preferences complement accessible UI components, labels, keyboard interactions, and RTL layouts.

Privacy Management

Customers can access privacy workflows for personal-data export and account deletion requests.

Guest Ordering

Low-friction guest identity allows customers to participate in ordering experiences without completing a traditional account flow.

Dashboard interface

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Platform interface

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