/covid-restaurant-booking

Free booking system for pickup and delivery during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic

Help restaurants survive the coronavirus pandemic with a free online ordering service

There are many restaurants that only served people in-house before the pandemic.

Two user groups

  1. Fancy sit-down places that costs a lot of money and do not deliver

  2. Cash-only mom-n-pop places that have do not deliver. They are fundamentally incompatible with the credit-card systems of uber eats, grubhub, and seamless, and those services are too expensive anyway.

Let's focus on mom-n-pop.

This is a huge change for them! They need online ordering systems! They haven't yet found good software to help them manage online orders, deliveries, and pickups.

  • They have razor thin margins, so they cannot afford many of the online-order services

  • They want to keep their staff employed, so they pay waiters and such to deliver food, instead of paying 3rd party delivery services

  • Pickup lines can't get big during the pandemic, so they need time-slot reservations for pickups

Solution: free and open source online ordering service

  1. Allows people to order for pickup or delivery, with the option to pay in cash

  2. Allows restaurants to set limits on number of deliveries or pickups per time slot

More requirements being roughed out in this google doc

I'm a restaurant owner or employee

  • Join the discussion at https://discord.gg/5cfdhp

  • Tell us what you need! We're listening and we want to help you as quickly as possible

  • Star this repo

I'm a software engineer looking to help out

We can run a free version on an amazon server while the pandemic continues, and we potentially add a paid tier or ask for donations if the costs get too high, but always provide the source code with instructions on how to setup your own server, if someone wants to reduce costs