What is a cloud kitchen?

A cloud kitchen (also called a ghost kitchen or dark kitchen) is a professional cooking facility that operates multiple restaurant brands for delivery only, with no dine-in customers. The platform manages separate menus for each brand, routing orders to the same kitchen staff who prepare them under the correct brand name.

What is menu engineering?

Menu engineering analyzes each item's contribution margin (price − food cost) against its popularity (% of orders). Items are classified into Stars (high margin, high popularity), Plow Horses (low margin, high popularity), Puzzles (high margin, low popularity), and Dogs (low both). This guides pricing and menu redesign decisions.

How does split payment work?

At checkout, diners can split the bill equally, split by item (each person pays for what they ordered), or enter custom amounts. Each person scans the QR at the table and pays their share independently via Stripe. The order marks as paid when all shares are settled.

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Build a Food Tech Platform with AI - in Hours

ProjectCode generates a complete, production-ready Food Tech Platform from a single natural language prompt. In hours instead of months, you get a React frontend, NestJS REST API, PostgreSQL database, and authentication - fully integrated, live-previewed, and deployed to a URL you own.

Estimated build time: 2–4 hours

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The Challenge

Why building a Food Tech from scratch is hard

Building a Food Tech Platform from scratch requires months of development time and significant engineering resources. Teams struggle to coordinate frontend, backend, database, and authentication while managing food tech-specific business logic, integrations, and role-based access rules.

What's Included

Everything your Food Tech needs

ProjectCode generates a production-ready Food Tech with all the modules your team needs from day one.

Digital menu with QR code table ordering

Kitchen display system with order priority queue

Table-side payment with multiple split options

Loyalty points per order with reward redemption

Catering order management with event scheduling

Cloud kitchen multi-brand management

Menu engineering analytics: contribution margin per dish

Allergy and dietary filter for customer menu browsing

Architecture

How it's built

The generated Food Tech follows production-grade architecture patterns.

React 18 + TypeScript frontend with role-based dashboards tailored for food tech workflows

NestJS REST API with dedicated food tech modules, DTOs, validators, and service layer

PostgreSQL relational schema with normalized tables for all food tech entities

JWT + Google OAuth authentication with granular permission gates per role

Real-time Socket.IO events for live food tech status updates and notifications

Managed hosting with one-click deploy, custom domain, and auto-SSL

Database

PostgreSQL schema designed for Food Tech

ProjectCode generates a normalized, indexed PostgreSQL schema with the right tables and relationships for your use case. You own the schema and can evolve it freely.

menus (id, restaurant_id, name, is_active, languages jsonb, workspace_id)
items (id, menu_id, category_id, name, description, price, cost, calories, allergens jsonb, dietary_tags jsonb, image_url, is_available)
table_orders (id, table_id, session_id, items jsonb, status, special_requests, subtotal, tax, tip, total, paid_at)
loyalty_transactions (id, customer_id, restaurant_id, order_id, points_earned, points_redeemed, balance_after)

schema.sql (preview)

-- Generated by ProjectCode
-- Food Tech Platform schema

CREATE TABLE menus__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE items__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE table_orders__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

CREATE TABLE loyalty_transactions__id (
  id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(),
  updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW()
  -- ... auto-generated columns
);

Tech Stack

Production-ready from day one

Every generated app uses a battle-tested stack you can deploy anywhere and own completely.

Frontend

React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS

Backend

NestJS 10 + Node.js + TypeScript

Database

PostgreSQL (managed or Supabase)

Auth

Email OTP · Google OAuth · GitHub OAuth

Deployment

Managed hosting · Custom domain · Auto-SSL

AI Models

Claude Sonnet · Claude Opus · Kimi

Try It Now

Example prompt to get started

Copy this prompt into ProjectCode and get a working app in minutes.

ProjectCode prompt

Build a food tech platform for a restaurant group with 20 locations using a cloud-first QR ordering model. Include QR code table menus with real-time availability updates, a touchscreen KDS in the kitchen with item status (ordered, preparing, ready), table-side QR payment with split-by-item and Stripe, a loyalty points program earning 1 point per rupee spent with threshold rewards, a catering module for large event orders with pre-order scheduling, cloud kitchen support for running 3 virtual brands from one kitchen with separate online menus, and a menu engineering dashboard showing contribution margin and popularity score per item.

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Deployment

Deploy your Food Tech anywhere

Managed hosting

One-click deploy to a live URL managed by ProjectCode.

Custom domain

Connect your own domain with auto-provisioned SSL via Cloudflare.

GitHub export

Push to your GitHub repo and self-host or deploy via Vercel, Railway, or AWS.

Docker ready

Export a Dockerfile and docker-compose for any containerized environment.

Pricing

Start free, scale as you grow

No per-seat fees. No vendor lock-in. Token-based pricing that scales with your usage.

Free

Start building your first app. Live preview, managed hosting, and full code export included.

Token Packs

From $5

Purchase token packs that roll over every month. Build more, pay only for what you use.

Enterprise

Custom

Custom models, SLA, SSO, and private cloud deployment for large teams.

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FAQ

Common questions about building a Food Tech

Each table has a static QR code. Diners scan it and access the digital menu on their browser - no app download needed. They browse, select items, and submit their order. It goes directly to the KDS. Additional rounds can be added from the same session.

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