Business automation · Concept / demo build
Restaurant ordering and kitchen system
Ordering, payments and a live kitchen display in one dashboard for a restaurant team.
Overview
In a busy restaurant the same order passes through several hands: the till, the kitchen, the pass. Each handoff is a chance for a mistake. This concept treats the order as a single record that moves through states, so everyone sees the same thing at the same moment.
The problem it explores
Order intake, payment and kitchen coordination often rely on manual steps that slow service and invite mistakes.
Design decisions
One order, many views
Front of house, kitchen and management read the same order record. The kitchen display shows only what the cooks need: items, timing and status.
Status changes are one tap
Moving an order from preparing to ready is a single action on the kitchen screen, designed for wet hands and a loud room.
Reporting comes from the same data
Sales charts and popular-items lists are read straight from orders, so there is no separate report to reconcile at the end of the day.
What the concept includes
- Live kitchen orders with preparing, ready and delivered states
- Recent orders table with customer, items and total
- Sales overview chart and popular menu items
- Dine-in and takeaway order types
- Online payments through Stripe
Under the hood
A React front end uses a Django API for orders and menu data, with PostgreSQL as the source of truth and Stripe handling payments. Order updates are pushed to the kitchen screen so it never needs a manual refresh.
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