Food Delivery App Development Agency

Restaurant menus, orders, and dispatch — start with a handful of kitchens, not a DoorDash replica.

Food delivery is three companies: restaurants, riders, and hungry people. MVPs that try to automate all three launch empty. We start with menus and orders for a small set of kitchens, with dispatch that can be a human.

If you already have restaurants and riders, we can automate more in v1. If you have neither, software will not save you.

Timeline: 4–6 weeksPrice: From $5,800Fixed price — no hourly billing

Why food delivery app development is easy to get wrong

Menu + modifiers are a product by themselves

Driver tracking sold as 'just Google Maps'

Commission logic and restaurant payouts ignored

What we build

Customer ordering

Browse, cart, checkout, order status.

Restaurant dashboard

Accept, prep time, 86 items.

Courier tools

When you have people to assign.

Admin

Restaurants, zones, and refunds.

Typical features in v1

Modifiers

Size, extras, allergies — this is where food UIs get real.

Pickup-first option

Skip riders entirely for a first test.

Development process

1

Supply

How many restaurants on week one?

2

Pickup vs delivery

Delivery needs couriers. Pickup does not.

3

Build menus + pay

Then status. Then riders.

4

Pilot

One neighborhood.

Recommended stack

  • React NativeCustomer (and courier)
  • Next.jsRestaurant and admin
  • StripeCustomer charge + restaurant payout
  • Supabase RealtimeOrder tickets

What you get

  • Customer app
  • Restaurant dashboard
  • Payments
  • Optional courier app
  • Full source code

Planning resources

FAQ

Cost to build a food delivery app?

A menu + order + restaurant dashboard MVP is typically from $5,800. Full three-sided with live GPS is a larger fixed quote. Feature tables live on /cost/food-delivery.

Do we need a driver app in v1?

Not if you start with pickup or a handful of dedicated drivers on WhatsApp. We will say so.

White-label DoorDash?

No. We build your branded stack. We do not resell a clone script.

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