Plate ordering platform

Online orderingthat feeds the kitchen, not just the checkout.

Plate gives restaurants and food trucks one system for QR, web, and kiosk ordering, a multi-station kitchen display, public ready boards, waitlists, reservations, and truck stops. You keep your guest list and your margin instead of renting them from a marketplace.

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Owner order fee

from 1%

Marketplace cut

kept off your ticket

Included

ordering, KDS, ready board

Kitchen linelive

#1042

Grill · 2 items

4:12

#1043

Fry · pickup

1:38

#1044

Cold · dine-in

just in

Order ready

#1039

Ready for pickup · guest texted.

Up now6

Cooking11

Next stop

Today · 5pm

Riverside Brewing

Order-ahead open, 38 tickets pre-sold before the window opens.

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Why operators switch

Your food already earns the visit.The software should help you sell it and get it out clean.

Restaurants and trucks need ordering that feels effortless to guests and dependable to the line. The order path should be quick on a phone, the kitchen should route by station, and the counter should page guests instead of shouting numbers.

What improves first

Guests get a faster path from scan to confirmed order.

The kitchen sees one routed queue instead of a printer jam.

The counter clears because guests are paged when food is up.

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What the platform covers

The system feels complete because the workflow is complete.

Plate covers the ordering path, the kitchen line, the ready board, the wait, and the truck schedule, so front and back of house always look at the same live truth.

Ordering orchestration

QR at the table, web order-ahead, and kiosk all flow into one queue with modifiers, live 86ing, pickup timing, and pay-at-table handled in a single authored ordering flow.

Web, QR, and kiosk in one queue

Modifiers, 86ing, and pricing in one place

Pickup, delivery, and dine-in together

One authored ordering surface

Plate keeps QR tables, web order-ahead, kiosk, modifiers, and 86ing inside one ordering flow, so the guest never feels the platform stitching separate tools together and the kitchen sees one queue.

Multi-station kitchen display

Every item routes to the right station the moment it lands, with ticket timers and an expo view that keeps the plate together instead of curling on a single printer.

Station-level routing

Ticket and prep timers

Expo bump and recall

Ready boards & alerts

A public order-ready board and text-when-ready alerts clear the crowd from the counter and the food-truck window without anyone shouting order numbers.

Public ready board

Text-when-ready paging

Runs on any screen

Waitlist & reservations

Guests join remotely, get an honest wait quote, and get paged by text, with reservations and walk-ins sharing one floor view that flows straight into ordering.

Remote self-check-in

Reservations + walk-ins in one view

Seats hand off to ordering

Food-truck stops

Publish where you are parked next and let the IOX bay network slot your truck into open venue bays so the calendar fills with less back-and-forth.

Publish stops and hours

Bay-scheduling network

Payments & open tabs

Keep open tabs on the guest's phone for effortless reorders, collect pay-at-table, and settle through a developer-friendly processor you choose instead of a bundled rate.

Open tabs and fast reorders

Bring your own processor

Direct-to-operator settlement

Pricing that keeps your margin

Start free.Pay a small per-order fee, not amarketplace commission.

A delivery app can take 15-30% of every ticket. Plate charges a low per-order fee, keeps ordering on your own domain, and lets you bring your own processor, so more of each order stays with you.

Free to startFrom 1% per orderNo hardware lock-in

Why operators like the model

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Keep more of every ticket

with a low per-order fee instead of a double-digit marketplace commission on each order.

Own the guest relationship

because ordering runs on your domain and the guest list and order history stay with you.

Run on hardware you already have

since the kitchen display and ready board are web-based, with no proprietary terminal required.

Launch sequence

A tighter path to live.

Getting Plate live is a focused project: build the menu, wire the money flow, publish the ordering journey, and give the team one clean place to run service.

Build the menu once

Model items, modifiers, stations, and availability into a single source of truth that every channel reads from.

Wire the money flow

Connect a developer-friendly processor, set pickup pacing and per-window limits, and decide how tabs and deposits behave on a rush.

Publish the ordering journey

Launch branded QR, web, and kiosk ordering on your own domain, or drop Plate ordering into the site you already have.

Run service from one screen

Route tickets to the line, page guests from the ready board, and watch ticket times so the rush self-corrects.

Part of the IOX network

Grow with IOX.One account layer across a family of ordering and booking brands.

Plate plugs into a wider IOX account and commerce layer, so returning guests move through checkout faster and cross-promotion gets easier. As the network grows, so do the ways to reach guests who already know the flow.

IOX Skape IOX Blade IOX Stage IOX Drift IOX Grit

Partner referral

Love Plate? Introduce us to another operator.

Send us a non-IOX business owner who is a real fit and earn a share of net profit from that client for years. A good recommendation becomes a real revenue stream.

net profit sharemulti-yearnon-IOX referrals

Why the network matters

Shared IOX accounts help returning guests check out faster because their identity and history already exist.

That makes cross-promotion more believable, marketing to guests who already know the IOX ordering experience instead of teaching a new system every time.

Next step

Bring ordering, the kitchen, and the ready board onto one system.

If you are comparing ordering platforms, decide whether you want branded ordering on your own domain, see how the low per-order fee beats a marketplace commission, and launch without a hardware project.

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Explore by use case

Start with the bottleneck you are trying to fix first.

Whether you need to launch online ordering, add QR at the tables, tighten the kitchen line, run a truck window, or move off an all-in-one system, these pages walk through how Plate fits the decision.

restaurant online ordering system

Restaurant Online Ordering System

Plate is a restaurant online ordering system for pickup, delivery, and dine-in QR ordering that sends every order straight to the kitchen display and keeps guests updated on a live ready board.

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QR Code Menu Ordering

Plate turns every table and counter into a QR ordering point. Guests scan, browse a live menu, order, and pay from their phone while orders route straight to the kitchen display.

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Food Truck Ordering App

Plate gives food trucks order-ahead and at-window ordering, a live ready board so guests know when to come back, and a bay-scheduling network that tells fans exactly where the truck is parked next.

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Kitchen Display System

Plate's kitchen display system routes every order to the right station, tracks ticket times, and syncs with an expo screen and public ready board so the whole line stays in rhythm without paper.

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Restaurant Waitlist Software

Plate's waitlist and reservation tools let guests join remotely, get accurate wait quotes, and receive a text when their table is ready, all tied to the same system that runs ordering and the kitchen.

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Toast alternative for online ordering

Toast Alternative for Online Ordering

Plate is a Toast alternative for online ordering that gives restaurants and food trucks branded ordering, a multi-station kitchen display, ready boards, and waitlists without locking you into one processor or proprietary hardware.

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Guides from the Plate team

Short reads for operators who want a smoother line.

QR menu playbooks, food-truck wait-time fixes, KDS vs paper, and an online-ordering launch checklist help you set Plate up so the kitchen thrives on day one.

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