Services · Mobile app development · QR menu apps
Codeeo provides QR code menu development UK hospitality businesses can own outright: table ordering, pay at table, click and collect and a central menu admin for restaurant groups, pub companies, hotel brands, contract caterers and franchise networks. The UK is one market for payments and data law, but four nations for food rules. Calorie labelling, food hygiene display and some licensing details change at the border, and a platform serving sites across Britain and Northern Ireland has to know which rules apply where.
We design that logic into the menu database rather than leaving managers to remember it. Codeeo works with UK clients remotely from our teams in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, with discovery, reviews and rollout planning held by video call. The result is a platform under your brands, connected to your tills and payment providers, that your own team can run day to day without calling us for every price change.
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Platform capabilities
A single venue needs a good menu. A national estate needs a system: one source of recipe and allergen data, rules that follow each nation's law, integrations with whatever tills each acquired brand happens to run, and reporting that head office trusts. The capabilities below are the building blocks we use for UK groups. Not every estate needs all of them in the first release; the rollout plan decides the order. Each guest facing screen is built against WCAG 2.2 so disabled guests can order independently, which supports the reasonable adjustments duty under the Equality Act 2010 in Great Britain and the separate disability legislation in Northern Ireland. The menu runs in the browser from the QR code, with an optional branded app for loyalty. Later releases build on the same data, so nothing is thrown away as the estate grows.
Each site is tagged with its nation, and the menu applies the right rules automatically. Calorie display switches on for qualifying sites in England, Scottish sites follow Scottish practice, and hygiene information follows the scheme used locally. A single dish record serves every site, with the rules applied at the point of display.
Managers never have to remember which law applies at their site.
Recipes, portion sizes, the 14 regulated allergens and kcal values live in one database that feeds every menu, every till and every delivery listing. When a supplier changes an ingredient, the change flows through the estate instead of waiting for each site to update a PDF.
One correction fixes every menu at once.
Businesses with 250 or more employees must show kcal per portion at the point of choice in England, including online menus, apps and third-party platforms, with the statement that adults need around 2,000 kcal a day. We calculate the values from recipe data and keep them in step with portion changes.
Calorie compliance becomes a data job, not a reprint job.
Groups built through acquisition often run several POS systems. We connect each through its own API where available and normalise orders into one format, so reporting compares brands fairly and the guest experience stays consistent across the estate.
Mixed tills stop blocking a single guest experience.
Apple Pay, Google Pay and card payments through your acquirer, with pay by bank through Open Banking where your provider supports it. Card numbers never touch your platform; the acquirer tokenises them, which keeps your PCI DSS burden light.
Guests pay how they prefer and finance reconciles in one place.
Service charges are displayed before payment with a clear note on whether they are optional, and tips are recorded per site and shift. Reports support the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, which covers England, Wales and Scotland, while Northern Ireland sites follow their own employment law.
Payroll gets the figures it needs to allocate fairly.
Head office sets the core menu and price bands, regions add local dishes and suppliers, and site managers control availability. Approval steps stop a local change from breaking brand standards or allergen accuracy.
National consistency with room for local character.
Receipts, accounts and loyalty data collected under UK GDPR, marketing consent captured separately as PECR requires, and analytics cookies held until the guest agrees. Data maps and retention rules are documented for your data protection lead.
Guest data you can use without regulatory worry.
Orders, average spend, wait times, dish performance and drop off points compared by brand, region and site, with exports for finance and board packs. Reports are designed with your operations team so they answer the questions you actually ask on Monday morning.
Decisions based on the whole estate, not a few loud sites.
The same menu data feeds table ordering, click and collect from your own site and the listings you hold on delivery marketplaces. Prices, availability and calorie values stay aligned across every channel, and orders placed through your own channel keep the guest relationship and data with you rather than the marketplace.
Every channel shows the same dish, price and allergen record.
Who this is for
A national platform earns its keep when the same menu problem repeats across dozens of sites. These are the four types of UK business we most often plan for. Each has a different first release and a different rollout order, and discovery decides which pattern your estate follows. For restaurant QR menu development UK groups commission, the first question is always how many systems, brands and nations the platform has to span.
Some groups arrive with a patchwork: a free QR tool at one brand, a POS vendor's module at another and printed menus everywhere else. Bringing those onto one platform is often the first win, because allergen and calorie data stop drifting apart between brands.
Sites in England and Scotland, perhaps with a few in Wales, all running the same brand. The menu needs nation-aware rules for calories and hygiene schemes, one allergen database and consistent design. We usually pilot in one English and one Scottish site so both rule sets are tested before wider rollout. Once both pass, regional waves can follow the same tested configuration.
Pilot in two nations, not one.
Hundreds of pubs, varied buildings and mixed technology. Table ordering, age check prompts for alcohol that hand off to staff under each premises licence, and reporting by area manager matter most. Tenanted or leased sites may need a lighter version that operators can opt into. Pub gardens and large rooms gain the most, because guests no longer leave their table to queue at a single bar.
Managed and tenanted sites often need different terms.
Hotel restaurants, workplace canteens, university outlets and stadium kiosks, each with different payment rules. Room charging, staff card payments and cashless kiosks sit on one platform, with integrations to property and workplace systems where they offer APIs. Each outlet type keeps its own payment rules, while the catering client receives one set of reports across every location.
Integration options are confirmed per client system.
Franchisees need local control of opening hours and availability, while the franchisor protects the menu, the brand and the allergen data. We build role based permissions and franchise reporting so each party sees what its agreement allows, and onboarding a new franchisee is a configuration task rather than a new build.
Permissions follow your franchise agreement.
How we work together
Groups usually start with a fixed scope pilot so both sides can prove the platform on real sites. The national rollout then runs either as a monthly retainer or with a dedicated team that stays with the platform as it grows. Cost is driven by the number of brands and POS systems, the nations covered, the payment providers involved, whether a native app is needed and the reporting depth head office expects. Digital menu development UK estates need is rarely priced per site alone, because shared components get cheaper to roll out as more sites join.
Pilot findings feed straight into the rollout scope, so later waves are priced on what the pilot actually showed rather than on assumptions made before any site went live.
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
Our usual pattern is a lightweight browser menu, server infrastructure in British or European regions with data residency written down, and a documented API so your own team or another supplier can extend the platform. Native apps are added for loyalty when the data supports it. For QR code ordering system development UK estates plan over several years, that open API is what stops the platform becoming a dead end.
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02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
A data model, integrations and rules before any screens.
For a group, the menu is the visible part of a larger system. We start with your recipe and allergen data, your tills and payment providers, and the nations you trade in. From that we design one database, nation-aware rules and a design system, then pilot on a small number of sites before rolling out in waves. Every stage is scoped and dated in writing, and each wave has a named owner on your side and ours, so sites know who to call when something needs changing.
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