Custom Software for Restaurants
Restaurant software that runs your way — not the other way around
You didn't open a restaurant to babysit five apps and a stack of tablets. We build software around the way your place actually runs, delivered in weeks and quoted in writing before we start.
Sound familiar?
- Reservations scattered across OpenTable, phone calls, Instagram DMs, and a paper book, and somehow a six-top still gets double-booked on Friday night.
- Food cost is a guess. You know margins are slipping, but the numbers live in invoices, a POS report, and a spreadsheet nobody updates.
- Staff scheduling happens in a group text, and every swap turns into a twenty-message thread you have to referee.
- Three delivery tablets chirping on the counter, each with its own login, its own printer quirks, and its own way of ruining a rush.
- You're the only person who knows how it all fits together — which means you can never actually take a night off.
What we build for restaurants
Reservation & waitlist manager
One screen for every booking: online, phone, and walk-in. Guests get an automatic confirmation and a reminder before they arrive, and your host stand sees the same bookings the kitchen does.
Food cost dashboard
Plate costs, ingredient price creep, and margin by menu item, pulled together automatically instead of reconstructed from invoices at 1 a.m. Know which dishes make money before the month is over.
Staff scheduling app
Build the week's schedule, publish it to everyone's phone, and let staff request swaps that you approve with one tap. Swaps happen in the app instead of the group text.
Order aggregation
Orders from your own website, plus delivery platforms where your account can get integration access, flow into one screen. We confirm what's possible before quoting.
Frequently asked questions
How much does custom restaurant software cost?
Our standard rates are a $650/month platform fee plus $49/month for each staff member who signs in, adjusted to your project and confirmed in a written quote before anything is built. Five people logging in — say the owner, a GM, the chef, and two shift leads — comes to $895/month; if the whole crew signs in to trade shifts, each of them counts, and the quote shows that up front. The monthly fees cover hosting, monitoring, backups, security updates, bug fixes, and email support. Text messaging, if you use it, is billed separately. Changes after launch are $150/hour, done only after you approve them in writing, and a bigger build can carry a one-time fee, also quoted first. We've broken down the real numbers in our guide to what custom software costs a small business.
How long does it take to build?
A single tool, like a scheduling app or a reservation book, typically takes 1–2 weeks; a fuller system that ties reservations, food cost, and scheduling together typically takes 4–8 weeks. Those are ranges from our past projects in other industries, not promises. AI-assisted development is a big part of why it's weeks rather than months.
We're restaurant people, not tech people. Is that a problem?
Not at all. That's exactly who this is built for. You describe how your restaurant actually runs, in plain English, and the software gets shaped around that. We build the screens around the tasks your staff already do. Email support is included, and hands-on training for your team can be added to your quote.
Can you pull in our existing reservation and sales data?
Yes. Whether your history lives in spreadsheets, a reservation platform, or your POS exports, we bring it over, and the migration is scoped and priced in your written quote. You start day one with your real data, not an empty screen. If you're wondering whether it's time to make the jump, here are the signs you've outgrown spreadsheets.
Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you what it costs to fix.
A short conversation about your restaurant, then a written quote. Free, no pressure.
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