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DevelopmentFor Restaurants

Web Application Development for Restaurants.

Web apps and complex sites that do real work, not just look good. Designed and shipped for restaurants, not generic templates with restaurants swapped in.

Why this matters

Why restaurants need Web 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 Web Application Development engagement for restaurants reflects that. We build web applications: customer-facing apps, internal dashboards, data-heavy portals, and complex content sites that go well past a brochure. 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.

  • Design system in Figma plus a coded component library
  • Application screens, dashboards, and authenticated views
  • Responsive layouts at 360, 768, 1024, 1280, and 1536 breakpoints
  • Postgres data layer with migrations, plus a CMS layer where public content needs one
  • Authentication and role-based access via Clerk, WorkOS, or Auth.js
  • Typed REST or tRPC API with form handling and spam protection
  • GA4, Plausible, or PostHog analytics setup
  • Sitemap, robots.txt, and OG image generation for public surfaces
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

Web Apps proposal turnaround

Our Restaurants-specific approach

How Web Apps runs in restaurants, operationally.

  • Redirect map on day one

    Even brand-new sites have legacy URLs to honor, orphaned PDFs, archived blog posts, vendor microsites. Missing a 301 is how organic traffic dies on launch day, so the redirect map is week-one work, not a launch-day checklist.

  • Performance budget held through deploy

    Largest Contentful Paint under 2 seconds on a 4G mobile connection. Cumulative Layout Shift under 0.05. We hit it on every preview deploy, not just at launch, and we keep hitting it for 90 days after.

  • Editorial workflow, not a CMS dump

    We default to Sanity, Contentful, or MDX-on-GitHub depending on team size. Editors get a workflow they will actually use, preview environments, scheduled publishes, and roll-back if anything breaks.

  • Measurement wired before the homepage is approved

    GA4 events tied to revenue, not pageviews. Meta CAPI on day one for any site that will run paid traffic. The dashboard tells the truth before the brand approves the design.

FAQ

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