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Restaurant technology case study connecting online ordering, POS, kitchen displays and marketplace order ingestion.
Project overview
DinDin is a connected restaurant technology suite spanning customer ordering, point of sale, restaurant administration, kitchen display systems, and customer-facing displays. The platform coordinates menus, modifiers, tables, orders, payments, staff, printers, reporting, reservations, delivery, and multi-location restaurant operations.
The challenge
Restaurant orders arrive from several channels and must stay consistent from customer checkout through payment, preparation, fulfillment, and reporting. Each restaurant also needs its own menus, devices, staff access, and operating configuration.
Technical approach
A multi-tenant Laravel backend centralizes restaurant data and APIs for the web ordering experience, POS, KDS, and customer display. Real-time kitchen events synchronize order and item status, while device and printer configuration routes work to the correct operational surface. The same order model also accepts normalized Grubhub and DoorDash confirmations from the Gmail ingestion pipeline with marketplace identifiers and duplicate protection.
Super-admin back office
The super-admin back office used to manage every restaurant on the platform: account status, package/billing tier, and an import path from the legacy Dindin system. Restaurant names and emails are blurred for client privacy.
Restaurant storefront & menu
A restaurant's storefront page: hours, contact details, and a full categorized menu with popular items surfaced first, generated from the same menu data restaurant staff manage themselves.
POS order taking
The POS order-taking screen: a category-tabbed menu grid on one side and a live, per-guest order summary with modifiers and tip on the other, ready to send straight to the kitchen.
Split payments
Checkout supports splitting a ticket by amount, by guest, or a custom number of ways, with card, cash, and integrated-payment options on the same screen.
Table map & seating
Floor-plan tools for hostess and floor staff: a visual table map plus seating-area setup, so front-of-house layout matches how each restaurant actually seats guests.
Products and interfaces
Platform breadth
Evidence
Business context
Online ordering, point of sale, administration, kitchen displays, and customer displays form one operating workflow. Marketplace ingestion and connected services extend that workflow to external order sources rather than leaving each integration as a separate process.
The counts below describe platform surfaces, integration sources, and reporting scope. They do not establish order volumes, revenue growth, reduced wait times, or independently measured reliability.
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Questions and answers
DinDin is a connected restaurant technology suite spanning customer ordering, point of sale, restaurant administration, kitchen display systems, and customer-facing displays. The platform coordinates menus, modifiers, tables, orders, payments, staff, printers, reporting, reservations, delivery, and multi-location restaurant operations.
The work includes Restaurant and super-admin back office, Point-of-sale application, Customer online-ordering website, Android kitchen display system, Android customer display system, Restaurant and reporting APIs, Printer, receipt, and device integrations, Marketplace and delivery integrations.
Muhammad Muzammil Qureshi served as Chief Technology Officer, with responsibility spanning technology direction, architecture, delivery, and the operating systems described in this case study.
DinDin uses Laravel 11 · Livewire 3 · React 19 · Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · Android.
Grubhub and DoorDash confirmations are ingested through a Gmail pipeline and normalized into the same order model as native orders, with marketplace identifiers and duplicate protection so a delivery-app order is never counted twice.
Yes. The POS checkout screen supports splitting a ticket by amount, by guest, or a custom number of ways, so a table can pay together or separately without re-entering the order.
Orders placed at the POS or on the online ordering site synchronize in real time to the kitchen display system, so kitchen staff see live status updates without polling or manual re-entry.
Yes. A super-admin back office lists every restaurant on the platform with its account status and package or billing tier, and supports importing restaurants from the legacy Dindin system.
Sales, payments, employee performance, and menu performance are each their own reporting group, giving owners and managers visibility into the numbers that matter for their side of the business.
The platform handles printer, receipt, and device configuration directly, and includes dedicated Android apps for the kitchen display system and customer-facing display screens.
