Your most loyal regulars deserve more than a Yelp check-in and a punch card.
We build custom mobile apps for restaurants, bars, and food and beverage groups — loyalty programs, mobile ordering, table reservations, and the push notification channel that brings guests back. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Your regulars check in on Yelp, collect points on a physical card that gets lost, order through Uber Eats on a slow night, and you have no way to reach them between visits — because their data is on every platform except yours.
Your best customers visit twice a month. Between those visits, you have no way to reach them. No push notification. No offer. No "we saved your usual table on Friday." They're on your POS as a transaction record, but they're not in any channel where you can have a relationship.
Third-party apps have filled that gap — your guests order on Uber Eats, collect points through a Fivestars card, make reservations through OpenTable, and accumulate purchase history on none of those platforms because the data stays with the aggregator. You pay commission on the ordering, a per-cover fee on the reservation, and a monthly fee on the loyalty system. Your guest data is scattered across four vendors.
The brands that are growing loyalty without growing ad spend have one thing in common: a branded mobile app where points, ordering, and reservations live in one place, and a push notification channel that costs nothing per message instead of $0.40 per SMS. When a quiet Tuesday needs a boost, they send a push to the 3,000 people who've ordered in the last 90 days. Covers fill in two hours. They didn't pay DoorDash anything.
A branded app is the loyalty flywheel that accumulates with every visit instead of resetting every time a guest switches platforms.
A branded app where loyal guests order, earn points, make reservations, and receive your offers — with a customer database you own and a direct communication channel that doesn't cost you a per-cover commission.
Loyalty and rewards
Points per dollar, visit streaks, birthday rewards, and milestone unlocks — visible on the home screen so guests open the app even when they're not ordering.
Mobile ordering with table, pickup, and delivery support
Tap-to-order with modifier support, saved orders, and Apple Pay / Google Pay checkout. Orders land directly in your POS (Toast, Square, or printed ticket).
Table reservations with deposit and waitlist
Date picker, party size, special requests, and optional deposit for peak nights — no OpenTable commission.
Push notifications with segmentation
Broadcast to all guests, or target by recency, order frequency, or loyalty tier. "Slow Tuesday" promotions, new menu launches, and VIP-only events sent in seconds.
Guest profile and visit history
Guests see their own history, points, and upcoming reservations. You see every visit and purchase in a segmentable dashboard. Built with Expo and React Native for iOS and Android, Convex for real-time order state, Stripe for payments, and POS API integration for order routing.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A branded app where loyal guests order, earn points, make reservations, and receive your offers — with a customer database you own and a direct communication channel that doesn't cost you a per-cover commission.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Restaurants operate on thin margins and can't carry open-ended technology debt. Fixed scope means the loyalty engine, the ordering flow, the reservations, and the push system are all priced and committed before we start. You know the investment, you know the ship date, and you know what goes live before the next big season.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
No. Most restaurants run both in phase one — OpenTable for discovery and overflow reservations, the app for direct bookings from loyal guests. Over time, as the app user base grows, the split shifts toward direct.
We integrate with your POS (Toast, Square, Clover, or a direct ticket printer) so mobile orders appear exactly the same as in-person orders. No separate tablet on the pass.
The math depends on your average order value and loyalty visit frequency. A typical restaurant sees payback within 6 to 12 months once 500 to 1,000 active app users are placing one incremental visit per month above their baseline.
Loyalty, mobile ordering, reservations, and push notifications on iOS and Android typically runs $50k–$90k depending on POS integration complexity and whether delivery logistics are in scope. Fixed-price.
Most restaurant apps ship to the App Store and Google Play in 12 to 16 weeks.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.