Services · Mobile app development · Food delivery apps
Codeeo builds food delivery platforms that US restaurant chains, franchise systems, ghost kitchen operators and delivery startups use to run ordering in more than one market. We build customer apps, courier apps and a central operations platform that handles different menus, taxes, privacy rules and courier pay models from state to state. The point is a single product that can open a new city through configuration rather than a fresh build.
National rollout fails when a platform assumes every market works like the first one. We design for variation from the start. Our team works remotely with clients across the United States, and discovery, reviews and demos all run by video call. Every phase ends with a written review, and nothing moves to the next market until the current one is stable.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform capabilities
A single-restaurant app and a national delivery platform share a menu screen and little else. Once you operate in several states, sales tax treatment of prepared food and delivery charges differs by jurisdiction, consumer privacy obligations depend on where customers live, courier pay rules differ between California, New York City, Seattle and everywhere else, and franchisees want their own control without breaking the brand. The capabilities below are the ones that matter most at that scale. We build them as configuration, so a market manager can change a rule in the admin console instead of filing a ticket with developers. For custom food delivery app development USA brands plan for growth, this architecture decision matters more than any single feature: get it right early and the fifth city costs far less effort than the first. We help you decide which capabilities the first market truly needs, and which can wait until the second or third city goes live.
Each market holds its own locations, time zone, hours, delivery zones, menu availability, pricing and courier model. Opening a new city means creating a market, copying a template and adjusting what differs, rather than duplicating code or spinning up a separate app.
New cities launch through settings, not new builds.
Prepared food, delivery charges and service fees are taxed differently across states and localities. The platform calls a tax calculation service or your processor's tax engine per order, shows every charge clearly at checkout, and records the breakdown for accounting in each state.
Correct tax lines without hard-coded rates.
California's CCPA and CPRA, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act and comprehensive privacy laws in a growing list of other states each set notice, opt-out and request rules. We build a consent and request center that can show the right notice by state and route access, deletion and opt-out requests to your team.
One system for privacy requests from every state.
Employee drivers in one market, contractor couriers in another and third-party courier APIs in a third. The courier side records trip time, engaged time, mileage and tips, which supports regimes such as California's Proposition 22 earnings floor or New York City's minimum pay rate for app delivery workers.
Pay data that fits each market's rules.
Brand-level control of menus, imagery and promotions, with franchisees allowed to set local hours, item availability and staff accounts within limits you define. Reports roll up by franchisee, region and brand.
Local control without losing brand consistency.
Calorie and allergen fields stored with each menu item and shown in the app. Chains covered by FDA menu labeling rules, which apply to restaurants that are part of a chain with 20 or more locations, can present calorie information in online ordering, and the major allergens, including sesame, can be tagged consistently.
One source of truth for menu data in every location.
Screen reader labels, sufficient contrast, scalable text and full keyboard and switch control support, built to WCAG guidance. Accessibility claims under the ADA against websites and apps are common in the US, and an ordering app that every customer can use is simply a better product.
Ordering that works for customers with disabilities.
Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay through a PCI DSS compliant processor, with split settlement to franchisees or partner restaurants where needed and scheduled payouts to couriers. Card data never sits on your servers.
Money moves to the right party automatically.
Push, email and SMS campaigns that check consent first. Marketing texts in the US need prior express written consent under the TCPA, so the app records when and how each customer opted in, and opt-out is honored immediately.
Campaigns that reach customers who said yes.
A central view of every market: live orders, courier coverage, outages, menu changes and sales by region, brand and channel. Market managers see their own area; head office sees everything.
Problems in any city visible within minutes.
Who this is for
National food delivery in the US is split between large marketplaces, restaurant chains running their own channels, franchise systems with mixed ownership, and newer delivery-only brands. Each group needs a different platform. Food delivery app developers USA buyers shortlist should be able to explain how their architecture handles more than one state. These are the four buyers we design for most. In each case we start by agreeing which markets come first and why, because that choice shapes the whole build.
You have locations in several states and rely heavily on marketplaces for delivery. A national app gives you customer data, loyalty and pricing control, while marketplaces stay as one channel among several. We start with ordering and pickup across all locations, add delivery through your own couriers or courier APIs market by market, and connect POS systems in priority order. Loyalty runs nationally from day one, so a customer who moves from Phoenix to Atlanta keeps their points and order history.
Pickup everywhere first, delivery market by market.
Franchisees often run different POS systems and local habits. The platform gives the brand one app and one loyalty scheme, with franchisee permissions, split payments and reports by owner. Onboarding a new franchisee becomes a checklist task, not a development project. Brand teams can push a limited-time offer to every location at once, while franchisees decide whether to opt in where your agreements allow it.
One app, many owners.
Several virtual brands across kitchens in different cities need shared prep queues, brand storefronts and consistent courier handoff. We build kitchen-level routing so each order reaches the nearest kitchen that carries that brand, and reports that compare brand performance across markets. Courier handoff rules can differ by kitchen, since a downtown storefront and a suburban industrial unit have very different pickup conditions.
You plan to list independent restaurants in a few metro areas and grow from there. That means partner onboarding, commission and fee settings, courier models and, in places such as New York City, licensing and fee caps on what delivery apps charge restaurants. We plan those rules per market and build the configuration that lets you comply as you expand. Partner restaurants get their own portal for menus, hours and statements, which keeps support requests down as the list of partners grows.
Local rules mapped before each launch.
How we engage
Many clients fund a fixed-scope pilot: the core platform plus one market, delivered against a written feature list. A retainer then covers new markets, platform updates and features in priority order. Larger chains and marketplaces usually move to a dedicated product team that stays with the platform through national rollout, with designers, engineers and QA working as an extension of your own staff. All three models run remotely with video calls, shared boards and written sprint notes, and you approve priorities before each sprint.
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 USA platforms, we choose cloud infrastructure that scales by region, cross-platform or native apps depending on your needs, and established services for payments, tax calculation, mapping and messaging, so you are not maintaining things a specialist provider already does well.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
The pilot market sets the pace, and we fix dates after discovery.
The first release includes the core platform and one market, so it carries most of the effort. Later markets are faster because they reuse the market template, though each may need new integrations, tax setup or courier arrangements. The main timing factors are the number of brands, POS systems and courier models, plus how quickly approvals and content arrive from your side. We agree written dates once scope is fixed. Choosing a pilot market with a manageable set of rules, and a kitchen team willing to give honest feedback, usually shortens the path to the second city more than any engineering shortcut.
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