Built for your trade
For takeaways & dark kitchens: your own ordering, not 30% to an app.
The delivery apps take a third and own your customers. We build your own ordering — collection and delivery, card payment, reorder in two taps — and the list that lets you tell regulars about Friday’s special.
The first problem
The apps take the margin
Own ordering with no per-order commission; the apps become a channel, not the business.
The second
Reorders should be one tap
Customer accounts with saved orders and addresses — the regular’s Friday order in seconds.
The third
Quiet nights need a nudge
Offers sent to your own list, tracked by code, without paying anyone for the privilege.
What we’d build
A system the business runs on, from about £13,000
Fixed price agreed after one conversation. A care plan afterwards is about £150 a month — hosting, fixes, updates — and you can stop it whenever you like. You own everything: domain, code, content.
- Own online ordering with card payment
- Collection and delivery windows
- Saved orders and addresses
- Kitchen order screen
- Offers by email and SMS
Straight answers
Delivery drivers and tracking?
Driver assignment and simple status updates; full live tracking is possible but rarely worth it for one kitchen.
Can we keep using the apps too?
Yes — most do, and shift regulars to their own channel over time.
Being found
How takeaways & dark kitchens get found online
Most takeaways & dark kitchens win work from three places: Google’s local results, word of mouth that gets checked online, and the handful of people who search for exactly what you do. A business software built for your trade covers all three — a Google Business Profile that’s complete and reviewed, service pages written in the words your customers use, and a site fast enough that people don’t give up on their phone.
We build the technical side of search into every takeaways & dark kitchen website as standard: proper page titles and descriptions, structured data Google can read, an image on every share, and location pages that are useful rather than spam. The free site check on this site shows you where an existing site stands in twenty seconds.
Your situation, in three taps
What would we actually build for you?
Do you have a website now?
Do customers need to book or buy from you?
Is there admin you’d pay to make disappear?
Proof, not promises
Things we’ve built that takeaways & dark kitchens would recognise
Nearby trades
- Restaurants — tables booked, deposits taken, no third-party cut
- Cafés & coffee shops — found, followed, pre-ordered
- Pubs & bars — tables, events and the Sunday roast, all bookable
- Hotels, B&Bs & guesthouses — direct bookings, without the OTA commission
- Holiday lets & glamping — booked direct, repeat guests kept
- Venues — showrounds booked while you sleep
Sound like you?
Tell us what’s annoying you. You’ll get an honest answer within a working day, and a fixed-price proposal within days if it’s a fit.