Services · Mobile app development · Food delivery apps
Codeeo builds food delivery apps that New York restaurants, delis, ghost kitchens and local delivery startups can own and run. We build the ordering app, the courier app and the operations dashboard, designed for walk-ups, doorman buildings, bike couriers and the late-night orders that define the city. New York City regulates third-party delivery apps more closely than most US cities, so the product is planned around those rules from the first sketch.
A direct channel keeps your customer list and your margin in house. We work remotely with New York clients, running discovery, design reviews and sprint demos over video calls, with every decision recorded on a shared board you can open at any hour. Nothing moves to the next stage until you approve it.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Product capabilities
Delivery in New York looks nothing like delivery in a car-based city. Couriers ride e-bikes and mopeds, customers live above the fifth floor of walk-ups or behind a doorman, and a short distance on the map can mean a bridge, a tunnel or a crosstown crawl. Orders also come in bursts: lunch in Midtown and the Financial District, dinner in Brooklyn and Queens, and a long tail after midnight. The capabilities below reflect those patterns. We build them in the order that matters to your business, and each one connects to a single operations dashboard so your staff see one queue rather than several tablets. Custom food delivery app development New York operators commission should also respect the city's rules on delivery apps and courier pay, which is why compliance features sit in this list rather than in a footnote.
Fields for apartment number, floor, buzzer code, doorman or lobby drop-off and access notes that stay saved for repeat orders. Couriers see these before they arrive, which shortens handoff time and cuts calls to the restaurant from a courier stuck outside a locked door.
Faster handoffs at the door and fewer failed deliveries.
New York City gives app delivery workers rights to set a maximum distance from the restaurant and to decline trips over bridges or through tunnels. If you operate a delivery app covered by those laws, our courier app stores each worker's settings and dispatch never offers trips beyond them.
Dispatch rules that respect worker settings automatically.
The city sets a minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers, excluding tips, and updates it each year. The courier app tracks trip time, tips and earnings clearly, supports payment at least weekly, and keeps the records your finance team needs to show compliance.
Clear earnings for couriers and clean records for you.
If you are building a platform that serves other restaurants, city law caps what licensed third-party delivery services can charge them, in separate categories for delivery, listing and card processing. We build itemized partner statements and fee settings that your counsel can configure to the current caps.
Partner billing you can explain line by line.
A menu that loads quickly on a crowded subway platform, saved favorites, one-tap reorder and scheduled delivery for office lunches. Modifiers handle the endless variations of a bagel, a bodega sandwich or a build-your-own bowl without confusing the kitchen. Office managers can split a group order by person and still pay with one card.
Short checkout times on any connection.
Kosher, halal, vegan, gluten-free and allergen filters, with certification details shown where you hold them. Customers trust a filter only if it is accurate, so items are tagged at the menu level by your team, not guessed by the app.
Customers find what they can eat in seconds.
Menus that change by time of day, with a smaller late-night list, breakfast that switches off at a set hour, and delivery zones that shrink when fewer couriers are on shift. All of it is controlled from the dashboard without an app update. Kitchens can also pause a single busy station, such as the fryer, without closing the whole menu.
Menus that match what the kitchen can actually make at that hour.
Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards through a PCI DSS compliant processor, with tips passed to couriers in full and shown separately in their pay records. Refunds and credits are issued from the dashboard with a reason logged for each.
Quick payment and tips that are easy to trace.
Customer screens in English plus the languages your neighborhood speaks, and courier screens in the languages your riders prefer, which are often different. Menu items can keep their original names with translations below, and notifications follow each user's chosen language. Translations live in the dashboard so your team can correct a dish name the same afternoon.
Customers and couriers each use the app in their own language.
One live board for orders, prep timers, courier status, item pauses and refunds, with reports by borough, location and daypart. Restaurant groups can reassign an order to a closer kitchen when one location is overwhelmed. Managers can do the essentials from a phone when they are on the floor rather than at the office computer.
One view of every order across every location.
Who we work with
New York has every kind of food business, from a family pizzeria in Bay Ridge to a dumpling counter in Flushing to a fine dining group in the West Village. Customers order in English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Bengali, Korean and many more languages. Food delivery app developers New York operators hire should understand which rules apply to which business model before they write a line of code. These are four models we see often, and how each changes the build. In each case we agree a measurable goal for the first release before design starts.
You already sell through the large marketplaces and want your regulars to order from you. A branded app with fast reorder, building notes, loyalty and a tight delivery zone is usually the right start. If your own employees deliver, your app is not a third-party delivery service in the way the city's licensing law describes, but your employment obligations still apply, and your counsel should confirm where you stand. Loyalty perks and pickup at the counter help regulars switch without pressure.
Direct ordering first, wider zones later.
If you are building a neighborhood platform that takes orders for other restaurants, you are likely to need a license from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and to follow the city's fee caps and worker protections. We design partner onboarding, fee configuration, courier settings and pay records around those obligations from the start. Courier onboarding, earnings statements and dispute handling are part of the scope, not afterthoughts.
Licensing questions are answered before the build, not after.
Kitchens in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens need their own menus, hours and zones, plus shared loyalty and one head office view. We build location routing, per-site pricing and reporting so a customer's account follows them while each kitchen controls its own line. New openings become a dashboard task: add the address, draw the zone, copy a menu.
Several virtual brands from one kitchen share one prep queue, with separate storefronts and menus. Courier pickup is timed and staged so riders are not crowding a narrow entrance or blocking the sidewalk during the dinner peak. Brand-level reporting shows which concepts earn their place on the line.
One line, many brands.
Working together
A fixed-scope first release suits most restaurants: ordering, payments, building notes and a dashboard, delivered against an agreed list. A monthly retainer then covers iOS and Android updates, rule changes and new features in your order of priority. Delivery platforms and larger groups often need a dedicated product team over a longer program, especially when licensing, partner billing and courier pay all need ongoing care. Each option runs remotely, with video calls, shared boards and written sprint notes. Whichever option you pick, you see the same backlog we work from and approve priorities before each sprint begins.
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
For online food ordering app development New York projects, we choose frameworks and hosting that handle sharp lunch and dinner peaks, mapping that understands dense addresses and bike routes, and payment processors that keep card data off your servers. Back ends are built to absorb a sudden rush when rain sends half of a neighborhood to its phones at once.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Your delivery model and the rules attached to it.
Whether your couriers are employees, contractors or a partner service decides which city rules apply, from minimum pay for app delivery workers to licensing for third-party delivery services. Once your counsel confirms that, we scope the features: building handoff notes, courier settings, pay records, partner billing if relevant, and then the customer experience. Getting this order right avoids rebuilding the courier side after launch. It also tells us whether you need one courier app or none at all, which changes the scope considerably.
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