What a restaurant app includes
- A customer app and/or website — menu, cart, checkout, order tracking
- A kitchen/admin view — incoming orders, menu and price management
- Online payments with receipts, and offers or coupons
- Optional: a delivery-rider app and live order tracking
Realistic price ranges
A single-restaurant ordering app (your brand, your outlets) typically costs $8,000 – $25,000 and launches in 8–12 weeks including app-store publishing. Add multiple outlets, a rider app and live delivery tracking and it grows from there. The economics are compelling: if an aggregator takes 25% per order, your own channel pays for itself once modest volume moves to it — and the customer data stays yours.
Own channel vs aggregator
Aggregators bring reach but take a cut and own your customer relationship. Your own app keeps the margin and the data. Most restaurants end up using both — the aggregator for discovery, their own app for repeat regulars, where the commission hurts most.
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