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.
restaurant online ordering system
Starter
Free to start
Online order fee
from 1%
Included
ordering, KDS, ready board
What Plate fixes first
Web, QR, and kiosk ordering that all land in the same kitchen queue
Menus, modifiers, 86ing, and pricing managed in one place
Order-ready alerts on a public board and by text, no extra hardware
Ordering should sell the food and steady the line.
Take pickup, delivery, and dine-in orders from your own branded page instead of renting space on a marketplace.
Send every order straight to a multi-station kitchen display so the line never waits on a printer.
Manage menus, modifiers, availability, and 86'd items once and have every channel update instantly.
Keep your margin with low per-order pricing instead of the 15-30% a third-party app takes.
Best fit
Best for operators who want ordering they actually own
Restaurants tired of handing 20-30% of every ticket to a delivery app
Multi-station kitchens that need orders routed, not just printed
Owners who want the guest data, not a marketplace's walled garden
The software earns trust by handling the hard parts cleanly.
01
Online ordering should feed the kitchen, not just the checkout
Plenty of tools can capture an online order. Far fewer get that order onto the line cleanly. If the order prints on a single slip and someone has to sort it by hand, the software has only moved the bottleneck one step down the counter.
Plate connects the ordering page directly to a multi-station kitchen display so each item routes to the right station the moment it is placed. The guest gets confidence, and the kitchen gets a queue instead of a paper pile.
02
The menu is the product, so it has to stay accurate everywhere
Nothing frustrates a guest faster than ordering an item that is already sold out. When the menu, modifiers, and availability live in one system, an 86 at the line updates the ordering page instantly instead of hours later.
Plate keeps one source of truth for the menu so pricing, modifiers, photos, and availability match across QR tables, the web page, and the kiosk without duplicate entry.
03
Owning the order means owning the relationship
When a marketplace owns the checkout, it owns the customer. You do not get the email, you do not control the experience, and you pay for the privilege on every ticket.
Plate puts ordering on your own domain and keeps guest contact and order history with you, so repeat orders, promos, and loyalty are yours to build on instead of rented.
The practical questions usually decide the switch.
How is Plate different from a delivery marketplace?
Plate runs ordering on your own branded page and routes orders straight to your kitchen display. You keep the guest relationship and pay a low per-order fee instead of a 15-30% marketplace commission.
Does Plate handle pickup, delivery, and dine-in?
Yes. Plate supports pickup, delivery, order-ahead, and dine-in QR ordering from the same menu, all landing in the same kitchen queue.
Do I need special hardware for the kitchen?
No. The kitchen display and public ready board run in any browser on a tablet or screen you already have. No proprietary terminal is required.
Next step
See how Plate fits your kitchen before you change anything.
If you are comparing ordering platforms, look at the ordering flow, the kitchen flow, and the ready board together. That is where Plate usually wins the decision.