Own the order.Keep the margin.
High volume, thin tickets, tighter margins than anyone outside the business realises. Cafés and quick-service live or die on throughput and on what the aggregators leave behind. We build direct ordering that’s yours — so the margin is yours too.
This page is for café and quick-service operators selling at volume on thin margins.
Restronaut builds direct online ordering on your own domain — so repeat guests and the margin on every order stay yours, not an aggregator’s — plus free calculators to check the economics first.
At your volumes, small leaks are the whole month.
A few points of commission or a badly-priced combo isn’t rounding error when you’re turning hundreds of tickets a day. It’s the difference between a good month and a flat one — and most owners can’t see it clearly enough to fix it.
The aggregators own your customer
Every order through a third-party app is a guest whose name, number, and repeat business you never see — minus a commission that takes a real bite out of an already-thin ticket.
Margin leaks hide in plain sight
Food cost creep, a combo priced on a hunch, delivery that loses money once you net out the fees — at café and QSR volumes these add up fast, and they rarely show up on one clean line.
Your busiest hour is your worst tech moment
A slow ordering flow or a kiosk that stalls at the lunch rush doesn’t just annoy people. It’s covers you didn’t turn — the most expensive kind of downtime you have.
Direct, fast, and priced to actually work.
We’ve worked the peak. We build ordering that holds up when it’s slammed, keeps the guest relationship yours, and comes with the tools to check the numbers before you commit to anything.
Direct ordering that’s yours
Custom online and in-store ordering on your own domain — so repeat guests come back to you, not to an app that rents you your own customers and takes a cut each time.
See our workBuilt for the rush
Fast, honest ordering flows that hold up at peak — because we’ve stood on the line during the rush and know exactly what a stalled screen costs you in turned covers.
Know your numbers before you build
Free operator tools to pressure-test the economics before you spend a dollar: food cost, labor cost, break-even, and delivery margin. The same math we run on our own projects.
Open the free calculatorsBuild it, or let us run it
Take the keys at launch, or keep us on to run ordering, campaigns, and menu updates while you run the floor. Either way it’s custom, and either way it’s built to your margins.
Three ways to work with usBuild. Run.
Or take over.
Every engagement is custom. The pricing is too. Pick the mode that fits where you are — we'll scope the rest on a call.
Build
We design, build, and ship the digital systems your restaurant needs. You take the keys at launch and run them with your own team.
Best for operators with in-house ops or marketing capacity
Build + Operate
We build it, then keep running it. Menu changes, campaigns, review replies, integrations, monthly ops reports — we're your outsourced digital team.
Best for operators who'd rather focus on the floor than manage tech
Take Over
Already on Squarespace, Zomato, Petpooja, Toast, OpenTable? We audit what you have, fix what's broken, integrate what's disconnected — and only rebuild what's worth rebuilding.
Best for operators with existing tools that mostly work
No fixed plans, no SaaS subscription.
Every project is scoped and quoted to the work.
✓ Honest, fixed quotes in writing · ✓ No surprise invoices · ✓ Cancel ops anytime
Common questions
Why build direct ordering instead of relying on aggregators?
Every order through a third-party app is a guest whose name, number, and repeat business you never see, minus a commission from an already-thin ticket. Direct ordering on your own domain keeps the guest relationship and the margin yours.
Will the ordering flow hold up during the rush?
That is what it is built for. We have stood on the line at peak, and we design ordering flows to stay fast when it is slammed — a stalled screen is covers you did not turn.
How do we check the economics before committing to a build?
Use our free operator calculators — food cost, labor cost, break-even, and delivery margin — to pressure-test the numbers before you spend anything. It is the same math we run on our own projects.
Want the order — and the margin — back?
Book a call. Tell us how you’re selling today, and we’ll show you honestly what going direct actually changes for a business your size.