Services · Mobile app development · Food delivery apps
We provide food delivery app development in Birmingham for takeaways, curry houses, restaurant groups, cloud kitchens and grocers who want customers ordering from them directly. Codeeo designs and builds the ordering app, the kitchen screen, the driver tools and the admin system as one product. It is planned around the city as it is: Ladypool Road and the Balti Triangle on a Friday night, students in Selly Oak, office lunches around Colmore Row and Brindleyplace, and families ordering for the whole household at the weekend.
Codeeo does not have a Birmingham office. We work remotely with clients in the city, holding discovery, reviews and demos by video call, and putting test builds on your phone so the people who run the kitchen can try each feature before it goes live. Managers can join from the kitchen office between services.
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What the app can do
Birmingham's food trade leans heavily on independent and family run businesses, many of them with customers who have ordered from the same kitchen for years. Those customers often still phone in. A good app has to be quicker than the phone call for them, and it has to work for staff who are cooking, packing and answering the door at the same time.
Custom food delivery app development in Birmingham should start with your menu and your busiest night, not a template. The list below is a menu of options rather than a fixed package. We help you choose the few that remove the most friction from your first release, and leave the rest for later.
Banquets, meal deals for four, mix and match sides and half and half orders are modelled properly, so a large household order is built in a few taps. Staff set the rules once in the admin system, such as which naans or rice options a deal includes, and the app enforces them.
Big orders placed quickly without phone calls to check what is included.
Mark dishes and whole menus as halal, vegetarian, vegan or gluten free, and show the certifying body if you use one. Customers filter the menu in one tap, which matters to the many Birmingham households who order on dietary requirements first and cuisine second.
Customers trust what they are ordering before they reach the basket.
Special menus with timed slots for iftar, late night ordering through Ramadan, Eid platters and Diwali sweets boxes taken as pre-orders days ahead. The kitchen sees how many of each it must prepare per slot, so the busiest weeks of the year are planned rather than improvised. Slot caps stop the kitchen overselling a single sitting.
Seasonal peaks become booked revenue instead of missed calls.
Each item records which of the fourteen regulated allergens it contains, visible before payment and printed on the kitchen ticket and bag label. When a supplier changes a sauce or a spice blend, staff update the dish once and the information changes everywhere.
Allergen information that stays accurate when recipes change.
Delivery zones and opening hours can differ for Selly Oak and Edgbaston student streets compared with the suburbs, with late night menus and student offers switched on for term time only. Push notifications for those areas can be timed around term dates rather than sent to everyone. Aston and city centre halls can be handled as their own zone too.
Offers reach students without discounting for every customer.
For kitchens with their own drivers, the app assigns jobs, guides routes and records proof of delivery. Vehicle details sit on each driver profile, which helps when city centre runs go inside the Clean Air Zone within the A4540 Middleway, where non compliant cars and vans are charged.
Fewer surprise charges on city centre deliveries.
Plenty of Birmingham customers prefer to drive over and pick up, particularly from suburban takeaways with parking outside. Customers choose collection, get a ready time and tap a button when they pull up, so staff bring the bag out instead of crowding the counter. Collection orders skip the delivery charge and free up drivers on busy nights.
Quicker handovers and less pressure on the delivery fleet.
Staff take phone orders on the same screen the app uses, attaching them to the customer's account by phone number. Regular callers gradually see their history in the app, which makes switching to ordering online an easy step rather than a new habit.
Phone regulars move to the app without being pushed.
Advance orders for teams around Colmore Row, Brindleyplace and the Jewellery Quarter, plus bulk orders for events and match days, with dietary needs captured per person and invoices for company accounts.
Predictable weekday orders that balance quieter lunch services.
Stamps or points that only apply when customers order through your app, with a favourite order saved for one tap reordering. Marketing messages only go to customers who opted in, and they can change that choice in their account at any time.
Regulars have a reason to order direct rather than through a marketplace.
Who we build for
Online food ordering app development in Birmingham is not one product. A curry house on the Stratford Road, a burger brand cooking from a unit in Digbeth and a grocer delivering to the outer suburbs share some features, but their busiest problems are different. These are the situations we hear about most often and how we would approach the first release in each case. In each case the first release stays small enough to launch quickly, because a working app on a real Friday teaches more than another month of planning.
You already have the trade. What you lack is a direct channel that is faster than the phone and cheaper than marketplace commission. We start with your best selling dishes, deals and delivery area, keep phone orders on the same system, and give regulars a reason to switch through saved orders and rewards. The menu photos and descriptions come from your own kitchen, not stock imagery.
The phone stays; the app simply becomes the easier option.
Several sites mean different menus, hours and catchment areas, and sometimes different local councils. We give each branch control of its own availability while customers use one account, route orders to the nearest open kitchen and give owners combined reporting. Hygiene ratings and registration details are held for each branch separately because each council inspects its own area. Menu changes can be pushed to every branch at once or tested in one first.
Several virtual brands from one kitchen need distinct storefronts, one prep queue and sharp timing between cooking and collection. We set up each brand separately in the app, group tickets by station on the kitchen screen and track prep against driver arrival. Registration and the hygiene rating apply to the kitchen itself, whatever the number of brands.
South Asian, Caribbean, Eastern European and Middle Eastern grocers serve customers across the whole city. Weighed products, cut options for butchers, substitutions, slot booking and Challenge 25 checks at the door for alcohol need a grocery model, not a restaurant one. We build the catalogue so it can be updated from your stock records instead of typed in by hand.
Grocery ordering needs weights, slots and substitutions.
How we work
Before anything is agreed, we review your current ordering setup and tell you honestly whether a custom app is worth it yet, or whether a better website ordering flow should come first. The usual route is a fixed scope first release, followed by a monthly support and improvement retainer. That retainer covers store updates when Apple and Google change their requirements, fixes, and new features such as festival menus or catering. Multi site groups with a longer roadmap sometimes prefer a dedicated team. Whichever route you choose, the people you meet in discovery stay on the project, and everything runs remotely by video call.
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
Cross platform apps for iOS and Android, a web based admin system and a cloud backend that copes with Friday night and festival peaks. Card payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay come through an established UK payment provider. Where your till supports it, orders flow straight into it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A customer app, an admin system and a kitchen screen, with a driver app if you deliver yourself.
The customer side covers menu, basket, address, payment and order tracking. The admin system lets you change dishes, prices, hours and delivery zones without asking a developer. The kitchen screen shows incoming orders with prep times. Kitchens with their own drivers add a driver app for job assignment and proof of delivery. Loyalty, catering accounts and phone order capture are common additions once the core is in place.
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