Restaurant App Development Services

Most of the price is connecting the app to the till you already use, because the till holds your menu, prices and tax rules and the app has to match them exactly. Each till brand, whether that is Toast, Square or Clover, is separate work with its own approval, so supporting two costs close to twice. The customer screens are the cheaper half.

Three to five months to build, but the date you can switch it on belongs to your till provider. They review and approve any app that pushes orders into their system before releasing live credentials, and that queue runs on their calendar, not ours. We submit early and keep a tested build waiting so nothing stalls once approval arrives.

Yes, and at one site first. Ordering, card payment and a menu pulled live from your till is enough to see whether customers use it; bookings, loyalty and delivery follow. The one thing we would not defer is taking a dish off sale everywhere the moment the kitchen runs out. A menu that lies costs you more than a missing feature.

We build ordering apps that talk to till systems, take card payments through providers such as Stripe, and keep menus, modifiers and prices in step across sites. We also know where these go wrong: staff habits, printer queues, sold-out items. For restaurant references specifically, we introduce clients privately instead of naming them here.

A menu with photos and allergen information, ordering for collection or the table, payment, table booking and a loyalty scheme. Allergen accuracy stays legally with your kitchen under UK and EU food information rules; we build the fields, the warnings and the record of who changed what. Push notifications sell more than the rest combined, used sparingly.

Honestly, below about five sites a custom app rarely pays for itself, and we will say that on the first call. An off-the-shelf ordering product sitting on top of Toast or Square will cost less than a year of your own app's upkeep. Come to us for a group, several brands, or volumes those products cannot handle. You own everything we build.