Services · Mobile app development · Restaurant apps
Codeeo delivers restaurant app development in Saudi Arabia for restaurant groups, franchise operators and growing local brands that want a direct line to their guests in every city they trade in. We build your own app for table reservations, order ahead for pickup, delivery by your own drivers, corporate and event catering, and menus that differ by city and branch. It is designed Arabic first, follows Saudi rules on menus, invoices and personal data, and stays under your brand rather than an aggregator's.
A brand that opens in Riyadh, then Jeddah, then the Eastern Province soon finds that one menu and one set of hours do not fit everywhere. The app has to keep the brand consistent while letting each city and branch run its own day.
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What a national restaurant app needs
Restaurant ordering app development in Saudi Arabia is shaped as much by national rules as by guest habits. The Saudi Food and Drug Authority asks restaurants to show calories and common allergens on their menus, and that applies to digital menus too. ZATCA's Fatoora system governs how every sale is invoiced. The Personal Data Protection Law, overseen by SDAIA, sets how guest data is collected and kept. And mada remains the card most Saudi diners reach for first.
On top of that, a national brand faces different cities with different rhythms: the late dinners of Jeddah, the office lunches of Riyadh, pilgrim seasons in Makkah and Madinah, and the commuter flow between Dammam and Al Khobar. The capabilities below are what we plan for brands working across that map. Discovery decides the order, and most groups launch with a smaller set in their lead city before adding catering, delivery or deeper reporting as further cities come online.
Head office sets the master menu, brand and core prices. Each city can add regional dishes or adjust prices, and each branch manages its own availability and opening hours. A launch item can go live in one city as a test before reaching every branch.
One brand, with menus that fit each city's guests.
Calories, allergens and other required details sit in the menu data for every item and modifier, so they appear the same way in the app as on printed menus. When a recipe changes, the kitchen team updates it once and every branch follows.
Menu disclosures stay consistent across every city.
Guests choose a city, a branch and a seating area, then book with optional deposits on busy nights. Regulars who travel between cities find their preferences and history waiting at any branch of the brand.
A loyal guest in Riyadh feels known in Jeddah too.
Timed collection slots, "I've arrived" alerts and car details for kerbside handover, which suits a country where most diners drive. Each branch sets its own preparation buffers to match its kitchen and its traffic.
Pickup works the same way at every branch, whatever the city.
Brands with their own drivers can add delivery zones per branch, address capture that supports the Saudi National Address, and driver handover from the dashboard. Brands that rely on marketplaces for delivery can leave this out and focus the app on direct guests.
Delivery is an option you switch on, not a dependency.
Company accounts with several authorised staff, catering menus with minimum quantities, quote requests and approval flows. Invoices can carry the client's VAT number and be paid by card, bank transfer or SADAD, depending on what your finance team supports.
Catering grows into a national line of business with proper records.
mada, Apple Pay, credit cards and STC Bank through a licensed Saudi gateway, with Tabby and Tamara available for larger orders. Payment settlement can be split by branch or legal entity for franchise structures.
Guests pay the way they prefer and money lands in the right account.
App orders pass to the POS or ERP that already issues your Fatoora compliant invoices, including refunds and credit notes. Guests receive the invoice with its QR code by message or inside their order history.
Every app sale is invoiced the same way as a counter sale.
Dashboards for head office, area managers and branch managers, each limited to what they should see. Compare bookings, pickup times and catering across cities, and spot a branch falling behind before guests notice.
National decisions are made from one set of numbers.
Hosting chosen with Saudi data residency in mind, role based staff access, encrypted data and audit logs. We work with your IT team on National Cybersecurity Authority controls where your group or its partners require them.
Guest data is protected to the standard Saudi rules expect.
Who this is for
National restaurant brands in Saudi Arabia are built in different ways: homegrown chains expanding from their first city, franchisees running international names, groups with several concepts, and new brands planning their first cities. Each needs a different first release, and each needs the app to grow without being rebuilt when the next city opens. Brands that combine these situations, such as a franchisee also running its own homegrown concept, are common, and the platform is planned to carry both.
Many Saudi brands start in one city and grow outward. The app built for the first city often hard codes things that break later, such as a single menu or a single set of hours. We design the data from the start for several cities, then launch where you trade today, so adding Dammam or Abha later is configuration, not a new project. Regional dishes, such as a Hijazi special for the western branches, can be added to one city's menu without touching the rest.
Build for the second city before you open it.
Franchise operators need an app that follows the brand owner's standards while meeting Saudi rules on Arabic content, menu disclosures, payments and invoicing. We work within the brand guidelines, connect to the systems the franchise requires and keep the Saudi specific parts clearly separated, so brand reviews and local compliance do not slow each other down. Where the brand owner supplies a global app, we can assess whether a Saudi build or a local extension of theirs serves your guests better.
Groups with a burger brand, a café and a fine dining room can run separate apps on one shared platform, or one group app with each concept inside it. We help you choose based on how different the guests are. Either way, the back office, payments, reporting and guest data are shared, which keeps running costs and staff training under control. A guest who orders coffee from one concept can be invited to book a table at another, with consent, because the guest record is shared.
Shared platform, separate guest experiences.
Brands launching in the Kingdom often open in Riyadh first, then add Jeddah and the Eastern Province. We plan the app alongside your opening schedule: what the first branch needs on day one, what the third branch needs when catering starts, and what the national version looks like. That keeps the first release small without boxing you in. Opening day promotions can be limited to the new city, so existing branches are not flooded with the same offer.
How we work together
As a restaurant app development company in Saudi Arabia with people in Riyadh, we can meet your head office there in person, and we work with branches in other cities by video call. Most groups start with a fixed scope first release in one city, then move to a retainer that covers new cities, menus and seasonal features. Groups with several concepts or an aggressive opening plan often take a dedicated team drawn from our Riyadh, Dubai and Karachi offices. Each later city launch is planned as a short project of its own, with menus, staff training and a pilot branch.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Restaurant mobile app development in Saudi Arabia usually means one Flutter or React Native codebase for iOS and Android, a web dashboard for head office and branches, and a cloud backend hosted to meet Saudi data residency expectations. We pick the stack around your POS, ERP and in house team.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on how many cities, concepts and integrations go into the first release.
A single brand launching in one city with pickup and reservations is a much shorter project than a multi concept group launching in three cities with catering and delivery. Your POS and ERP integrations, the volume of menu content and how quickly decisions are made at head office all affect the plan. We agree the timeline after discovery and write the rollout order for later cities into it.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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