Hospitality • Ordering + POS • UK

Leaving Toast and Deliveroo commission behind — a direct-order platform for a UK restaurant group.

A UK hospitality group (5 sites, casual dining) was giving up 28% of every online order to Deliveroo while paying Toast £6k/month for an EPOS their staff didn't like. We shipped a replacement — website, direct ordering, KDS and custom EPOS — in eight weeks.

Client(name withheld — reference available)
IndustryHospitality & Restaurant
ServiceBespoke + Hospitality
Timeline8 weeks to live
Team2 engineers + 1 designer

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The problem

Four systems, three suppliers, one kitchen.

Online orders came through Deliveroo, Uber Eats and a dated direct-ordering widget that hadn't been updated in two years. Each had its own tablet. Staff copied tickets onto paper. The kitchen display was a laminated sheet on a clip. When a supplier changed a menu item, someone had to edit it in five places.

The approach

Kill the aggregators on direct orders. Keep them for discovery.

The economics are simple: 28% commission on a direct order is pure loss. But Deliveroo drives new customers. So we built a direct-order site strong enough that existing customers would use it, while keeping the aggregator integrations for discovery. Menu items live in one place and publish everywhere.

What we built

One platform, five surfaces.

Outcomes

Measured over the first quarter live.

28%
Commission saved on direct orders
£6k/mo
Toast licence retired
8 wk
Idea to live in 5 sites
42%
Of online orders now direct (was 11%)

Client quote

"We budgeted for a year of payback. It paid back in four months. The kitchen staff stopped asking for it by the second week."
Operations ManagerUK restaurant group (reference available on request)

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Tech stack

What we used.

Next.jsNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLStripe TerminalTwilio (SMS)Deliveroo APIUber Eats APISunmi hardwareAWS London

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