Build an App for Your Restaurant
Third-party delivery apps take 15–30% of every order and own your customer data. You do the cooking; they keep the relationship. For a restaurant running on thin margins, that's the difference between profit and just surviving.
Your own app flips it back: customers browse your menu, order pickup or delivery, book a table, and join your loyalty list — and you keep 100% of the revenue and every phone number. One regular who orders direct instead of through an aggregator can be worth thousands a year.
Appy Club builds it for you from a plain-English description. Menu, online ordering, reservations, and a mailing list — a real app you own, live on the web today, no developer required.
Everything a restaurant app should have
What you can do with it
- ✓Take pickup and delivery orders direct — keep the 30% the apps skim
- ✓Let guests book a table online instead of calling during the dinner rush
- ✓Show a beautiful, always-up-to-date menu with photos and prices
- ✓Collect emails and phone numbers to fill slow nights with a single text
- ✓Run limited specials and pre-orders for holidays and events
What could this be worth?
Play with your numbers — what could this become?
The restaurants app market — a quick reality check
An honest snapshot so you build with your eyes open.
- · Delivery marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats — 15–30% fees)
- · POS add-ons (Toast, Square Online)
- · No online ordering at all (still common for independents)
Independent restaurants are a massive, fee-fatigued market actively looking to escape marketplace commissions and reclaim customer data.
Post-2020, owners realized aggregators own their customers; 'order direct' and first-party loyalty are the loudest growth levers in the industry.
Win as the zero-commission, own-your-customers alternative — a branded app for the price of a coffee, not 30% of every ticket.
Restaurants app — frequently asked
Your one-shot design prompt
An art-directed prompt written for a restaurants business — services, prices, palette and motion spec included. Click build, or copy it anywhere.
You are a senior brand designer shipping the launch site for a real local business. Build a complete one-page site for Nonna's Kitchen — "Order direct. Skip the fees.". Write ALL the copy yourself in the business's voice: specific, confident, zero lorem ipsum and zero filler. ART DIRECTION — warm appetite — rich duotone food gradients, editorial menu typography. Primary color #b91c1c, accent #f59e0b; build a full palette around them (backgrounds, text, muted tones) with body-text contrast of at least 4.5:1. Fonts via a Google Fonts link in the head: "Fraunces" 500/600 for headlines, "Karla" for body. THE BUSINESS — services and real prices to use verbatim: - Margherita pizza — $16 (Wood-fired) - Rigatoni alla vodka — $19 (Chef's pick) - Garlic focaccia — $8 - Tiramisu — $9 (House-made) LAYOUT, top to bottom: 1. Slim nav — the business name, Menu / Hours anchors, and an "Place order" button. 2. Hero — appetite-first: headline from "Order direct. Skip the fees.", one sensory sentence, "Place order" CTA, proof line "★★★★★ 4.9 from 800+ diners". 3. Menu — "Build your order": the items below as a beautifully typeset menu with names, prices, and notes; group sensibly. 4. Order/visit band — order-ahead or reservation call-to-action with a supporting line. 5. Gallery strip — four CSS-gradient food/scene tiles (no photos needed). 6. Hours & location — a clean two-column block. 7. Footer — contact, socials, one-line story. MOTION: confident. Hero words rise 20px with a 80ms stagger on a cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1) curve; section reveals are quick (300ms) with a slight 1.02 scale settle; cards lift 5px with a shadow on hover; stats count up once on reveal. Respect prefers-reduced-motion: disable reveals, show everything. RULES: fully responsive at 375 / 768 / 1280 — nothing may overflow horizontally. Semantic HTML with labeled form fields and visible focus states. All artwork is CSS gradients or inline SVG — no external images, no libraries. Content must be complete and readable with JavaScript disabled; motion is an enhancement. Forms are front-end only until connected — say so in a small honest note near the submit button.