Food Ordering App Development Company CISIN is a food ordering app development company that builds custom ordering apps for restaurants, chains, cloud kitchens and delivery startups. Each build covers a customer app for iOS and Android, a restaurant panel, a driver app and an admin dashboard. A first version with ordering, payment and tracking usually goes live in 3 to 5 months.

A basic food ordering app with a customer app, restaurant panel and admin dashboard typically costs $20,000 to $50,000 at CISIN, depending on scope. The price goes up with a driver app, multi-restaurant marketplace features, POS and delivery-partner integrations, and multiple languages. We give a fixed quote after a free scoping call, once the feature list is agreed.

A first version with the customer app, restaurant panel, driver app and admin dashboard usually takes 3 to 5 months at CISIN. A platform with loyalty, POS integration and advanced search takes about 6 to 9 months, and a multi-country, multi-language platform takes 10 months or more.

Most restaurants do both. Marketplaces bring new customers but take a commission on each order, typically 15 to 30 percent. Your own app is for the customers who already know you: you keep the full order value, own the customer data and can reward repeat orders. The usual move is to keep the marketplaces for discovery and push regulars to your app.

A white label app is faster and cheaper to launch because it reuses ready-made ordering modules, which suits a restaurant or chain with a standard ordering flow. A custom build makes sense when your model is different, for example a marketplace with its own commission rules, meal subscriptions or a multi-brand kitchen. At CISIN you own the source code either way.

Yes. We connect your food ordering app to your point of sale so online orders appear in the same system as in-store orders and print in the kitchen. Before quoting, we check whether your POS provider offers an API for online orders, because that decides how the connection is built and how long it takes. Common restaurant POS systems such as Square, Toast and Clover offer one.

Yes. Most food ordering apps we build use a cross-platform framework such as Flutter or React Native, so one codebase runs on iPhone and Android and launches on both app stores the same week. That keeps the build and later updates cheaper than two separate apps. For very high-volume platforms we can build fully native apps instead.

You do. When CISIN builds your food ordering app, the apps are published under your own Apple App Store and Google Play accounts, and the full source code, design files and server access are handed over at launch. You are free to keep working with us, bring the app in-house or move to another team without starting again.

Card payments go through PCI DSS compliant gateways such as Stripe, so card numbers never touch your servers. All traffic between the apps and the backend is encrypted with HTTPS, customer accounts use secure sign-in, and staff access to the admin dashboard is limited by role. Every release is tested before it reaches the app stores.

After launch, CISIN monitors the apps, fixes bugs, updates them for each new iOS and Android release and adds features on a monthly support plan. Most restaurants add loyalty rewards, new locations or delivery partners in the first year. As the product grows you can switch to a dedicated CISIN team billed monthly.

Ask to see food ordering apps the company has already put in the app stores, and talk to one of those customers. Check that you will own the source code and the store listings, that the quote is a written fixed price for an agreed feature list, and that you will test a working build every few weeks. A good development partner will also ask about your POS and delivery setup before it quotes.

We pick the stack per project. Recent CISIN food projects used Flutter and React Native for the mobile apps, Next.js, Vue.js and Angular for web panels, Ruby on Rails and C# for the backend, RabbitMQ for order messaging and AWS for hosting. For a new restaurant app we usually recommend Flutter with a cloud backend, so one codebase covers iPhone and Android.

Yes. Each location gets its own menu, prices, opening hours and delivery area inside one app, and orders route to the right kitchen by the customer's address or chosen store. Head office sees sales and delivery times for every location on one dashboard and can push chain-wide offers or location-only specials.

We build the privacy features these laws expect: clear consent screens, a privacy policy link at sign-up, a way for customers to download or delete their data, and limits on what staff can see. Which law applies depends on where your customers are, so we agree the privacy requirements during scoping and build them into the first version.