Food & Beverage
Food Cart — Online Food Ordering Platform
Client
Naeem Khan
Industry
Food & Beverage
Project overview
Food Cart brings menu browsing, food customization, guest checkout, and order tracking into one customer experience. A connected admin dashboard gives restaurant staff tools to manage incoming orders, create walk-in orders, maintain menus, configure branches, and review sales. The project goes beyond displaying products and collecting checkout details. It handles operational rules such as branch-specific pricing, delivery coverage, opening hours, item availability, and different fulfillment steps for delivery and pickup.
01 / The project
The challenge
A restaurant ordering application needs to make a simple customer journey work within a more complex operation. Customers need to know what they can order, how much it costs, and whether their location is served. Staff need accurate order details and control over a menu that can vary between branches. The central challenge was keeping the storefront and restaurant operations consistent: the selected branch, available items, delivery rules, and final order total all needed to agree.
02 / The project
The approach
The application separates the customer storefront from a protected administration area, with both connected to a Laravel API. React manages the interactive experience, while the backend validates orders and calculates final prices using stored menu and branch data. The customer journey follows a clear sequence: 1. Choose delivery or pickup and provide the relevant location or branch. 2. Browse the menu available for the selected branch. 3. Select item variants, add extras, and adjust quantities. 4. Review the cart and submit contact and fulfillment details. 5. Place the order without creating an account. 6. Check order progress using the order reference and phone number.
03 / The project
Menu browsing and customization
Category navigation, product cards, and item detail dialogs organize the menu into an easy-to-browse interface. Customers can choose available variants and add-ons before adding an item to their cart. The displayed line total reflects their selections and quantity.
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Branch-aware ordering
Delivery matching uses customer coordinates and branch delivery coverage to identify a suitable branch. Branch-specific price and availability settings determine the menu customers see. Changing the branch clears the cart so items from a previous branch are not carried into a new order with different prices.
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Guest checkout and tracking
Customers can complete checkout without mandatory registration. Delivery details include optional information such as a landmark and alternate phone number. An order summary keeps the selected items and charges visible during checkout. After placing an order, customers can check its status. The order page refreshes periodically to show progress through the relevant fulfillment stages.
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Restaurant operations
The admin dashboard connects customer orders with daily restaurant work: - **Order management:** Review orders and move them through validated fulfillment stages. - **Walk-in ordering:** Create counter orders and print receipts from the browser. - **Menu management:** Maintain categories, products, images, variants, and add-ons. - **Branch controls:** Configure branches and override item prices or availability per branch. - **Delivery configuration:** Manage delivery zones, fees, and minimum order requirements. - **Branding and settings:** Update supported storefront content and branding through the dashboard. - **Sales reports:** Review daily order counts, gross sales, delivery fees, average order value, popular items, and branch performance.
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Calculate prices on the server
The backend recalculates order totals from stored prices, selected variants, add-ons, and delivery rules. It also checks that selected options belong to the correct menu item. This keeps order creation independent of totals submitted by the browser.
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Outcome and scope
The implemented application brings customer ordering and restaurant administration into one system. Customers can customize meals and submit guest orders, while staff can manage fulfillment, maintain branch menus, record walk-in sales, and view reports. The project demonstrates full-stack implementation across interface development, API design, relational data, access control, and order validation. Its strongest technical focus is keeping customer-facing behavior consistent with restaurant operating rules. These outcomes describe implemented capabilities. Conversion improvements, revenue growth, and customer adoption have not been measured. Payment support has a defined boundary: JazzCash and Easypaisa are recorded as payment method selections; live gateway processing is not integrated. Live broadcasting also requires deployment verification with a configured service.
09 / The project
Food Cart — Full-Stack Restaurant Ordering Platform
A responsive food ordering application built with React, TypeScript, Laravel, and MySQL. Features guest checkout, customizable meals, branch-specific menus, order tracking, and an admin dashboard for orders, walk-in sales, menu management, and reporting.
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