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DevelopmentFor Restaurants

Mobile Application Development for Restaurants.

iOS and Android apps users actually open more than once. Designed and shipped for restaurants, not generic templates with restaurants swapped in.

Why this matters

Why restaurants need Mobile Apps built around their unit economics.

Most restaurants are operating on sites or software stacks built three to five years ago for a different version of the buyer. Third-party ordering apps take 18-30% per order and own the customer data, so there's no direct channel to fall back on. The infrastructure decisions that compound are the ones made with the operator in the room, not the ones made in a vacuum.

Inparlor's Mobile Application Development engagement for restaurants reflects that. We build production mobile apps in React Native plus Expo, with native modules where they matter. The deliverables below are scoped against the unit economics, per-order fee on third-party apps of 18-30%.

Where most agencies treat restaurants as another vertical to learn on, we treat the vertical as the starting point. Loyalty and reorder are locked inside a platform the operator can't customize or export from. We will tell you on the first call which of those constraints is binding and which is solvable inside the engagement.

What we deliver

Scope built for restaurants.

  • iOS and Android apps from one React Native codebase
  • Native modules for camera, push, biometrics, or BLE where required
  • App Store and Google Play listing assets
  • TestFlight and Play Internal Testing distribution
  • Submission to App Review on your developer account
  • Push notifications via OneSignal or Expo
  • Subscription management via RevenueCat or Stripe
  • Crash reporting via Sentry
Restaurants benchmarks

Real numbers from the vertical.

18-30%

Per-order fee on third-party apps

$25-$65

Average check (casual)

$95-$250

Average check (fine dining)

20-45%

Repeat visit rate (90 days)

48 hours

Mobile Apps proposal turnaround

Our Restaurants-specific approach

How Mobile Apps runs in restaurants, operationally.

  • React Native plus Expo until you have a reason to leave

    We have shipped to 5M+ US users on React Native. Performance is not the bottleneck for 90% of consumer apps, App Review and store optimization are.

  • Native modules only where they earn their place

    BLE, ARKit, on-device ML, low-latency audio, yes. Pull-to-refresh, gradients, push, no. We tell you which bucket your features sit in during scoping.

  • Store optimization runs alongside the build

    We model your category's keywords, generate listing variants, and run A/B tests on the App Store and Play listing within the first month of launch, not after.

  • OTA updates from launch via Expo

    Copy and content changes ship the same day. Native binaries go through App Review every 3-6 weeks on a fixed cadence. Your team is never blocked on a hotfix.

FAQ

Restaurants buyers ask us this most.

Ready to start?

Get a proposal for Restaurants mobile apps.

We respond within 48 hours with scope, pricing, and the team that would actually run the engagement.

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Or explore the full Mobile Application Development page · Restaurants hub