Services · Ecommerce development · Food ordering marketplaces
Codeeo delivers online food ordering website development in Los Angeles for businesses that sell meals from many restaurants under one brand. Neighborhood delivery collectives, delivery kitchen operators with several tenant brands, food hall landlords and production caterers serving studio lots all need the same core: a site where customers browse many sellers, pay once, and every kitchen is paid its share. In California that site must also respect written partner agreements, all-in price display and strong consumer privacy rights from the day it launches.
We plan the platform with your counsel's reading of state and city rules built into checkout and seller onboarding, not added after a complaint. Our team works with Los Angeles clients remotely, and every workshop and review runs by video call.
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Platform capabilities
Los Angeles is not one market. It is a county of 88 cities, each with its own business licensing, sitting inside a state that regulates food delivery platforms more closely than most. Distances are long, traffic decides how far food can travel, and customers in Koreatown, the San Gabriel Valley, the Westside and the San Fernando Valley order in different languages and at different hours.
Those conditions decide the build. A restaurant cannot appear on your site until it has agreed to be there. The price a customer sees has to include the mandatory charges your platform adds. Customers can ask what data you hold and tell you to stop sharing it, and browser privacy signals have to be respected. The capabilities below put those requirements into the product, alongside the features that make customers return and restaurants stay.
California's Fair Food Delivery Act bars a delivery platform from taking orders for a restaurant without a written agreement. Onboarding captures the signed agreement, the commission terms and the person who accepted them, and a listing cannot go live until that record exists.
No restaurant listed without its consent on file.
Under the state's honest pricing law, mandatory platform charges belong in the price shown, and the restaurant exemption added by SB 1524 does not extend to third-party delivery platforms. Checkout and menu displays are designed so the figure a customer sees first is the figure they pay before optional tips and taxes.
Pricing that holds up to a consumer complaint.
Zones are drawn by realistic travel time rather than a simple radius, so a kitchen in Silver Lake is not promising hot food to Santa Monica at rush hour. Zones can change by time of day, and customers outside every zone are offered pickup instead.
Delivery promises that survive the freeway.
Menus, categories and order updates can run in Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Armenian or Tagalog alongside English, with dish names kept in the original language where customers search for them that way. Each seller adds translations at their own pace, and search matches both the translated and original names.
Customers find dishes the way they actually name them, in their own language.
Delivery kitchen sites often host several virtual brands from the same line. Each brand has its own storefront and reviews, while the kitchen sees one combined order queue and one daily statement for every brand it operates. Brands can be paused individually when an ingredient runs out or a line is short staffed.
Many brands, one manageable kitchen.
A request center lets customers ask to see, correct or delete their data and to opt out of sale or sharing. The site honors Global Privacy Control signals from the browser, and consent for marketing texts is recorded separately from order notifications.
CCPA requests handled in the admin, not over email.
Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay payments flow through a processor's marketplace product, which verifies sellers and pays them out. Commission, refunds and tips are split per order, with tips shown in full to the person they are meant for.
Payouts restaurants and couriers can check line by line.
Crew coordinators order for a call time, choose drop-off at a stage or base camp, collect dietary needs from the team and pay on account. Repeat orders for a multi-day shoot can be copied forward with one change of date, and late changes notify the kitchen at once.
Catering orders that match a shooting schedule.
Each seller uploads its health permit from the right agency: Los Angeles County Public Health for most of the county, or the separate health departments of Pasadena, Long Beach and Vernon. Expiry reminders keep listings current.
Permits checked before customers can order.
Restaurants see their sales, peak hours, popular items, ratings and refunds, and can compare delivery against pickup. Your team sees the same data across all sellers and zones to plan recruitment.
Sellers see why staying on your platform pays.
Who this is for
Most of the people who ask us for a multi-restaurant ordering site in Los Angeles already know the national apps well. They have watched commission take a large share of each order, lost contact with regular customers, or seen sellers they care about buried in search results. A platform of their own makes sense when they can bring a group of kitchens with them and give customers a reason to order there. These four cases cover most of what we see, and each one changes what goes into the first release and what can wait.
A group of independent restaurants in one area, sometimes organized through a business improvement district or a merchant group, wants a shared site with lower commission. The first release keeps it simple: signed agreements, menus, pickup and a delivery partner for a tight zone. Local marketing does the rest, and every seller promotes the same site. Governance settings in the admin record who can change commission, approve new members or pause a seller, which avoids disputes inside the group later.
Shared ownership needs clear rules on fees and decisions.
You run shared commercial kitchens with tenant brands and want orders to come through your own platform as well as the national apps. Tenants get storefronts and statements, you take rent or commission, and pickup lockers or a front counter handle collection. Multi-site operators across the county add per-site zones and permits. Kitchen screens group tickets by pickup shelf, so drivers and walk-in customers collect the right bags quickly.
Your hall has many counters and a lunchtime crowd, and you want one ordering site for pickup, delivery and table QR codes. The platform handles splitting payments to each counter and lets you see sales across the hall, which helps with leasing decisions and with planning events that bring people in on quiet evenings. Counters keep their own menus and prices while the hall controls fees, opening hours and featured spots.
Sales data by counter makes lease renewals easier.
You supply film and TV productions, offices and events with meals from your own kitchens and partner restaurants. Ordering against call times and budgets, approvals by a coordinator, account billing and dietary tagging matter most. Partner kitchens are onboarded like any marketplace seller, with agreements and payouts. Invoices group every meal for a production or office account, with cost codes your clients' accountants can use.
How we work together
A fixed scope first version suits most clients: a written list of features, integrations and launch areas, priced and planned before design. A monthly retainer then covers new zones, seller tools and changes driven by California law, which moves often in this area. Operators with ambitious growth plans can take a dedicated team that works inside their own planning process. Every model runs remotely with shared boards, recorded demos and video calls, and you keep full ownership of everything we build.
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
We choose the stack around your processor, tax service, delivery partner and the POS systems your sellers use. Many builds use a Next.js storefront for speed and search visibility, with a headless commerce or custom Laravel back end in your own cloud account. Monitoring, backups and error alerts are configured before the pilot so problems surface before customers notice them.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Seller agreements, all-in pricing, privacy rights and realistic delivery zones.
Beyond the storefront, a Los Angeles platform needs onboarding that captures each restaurant's written consent, pricing that includes mandatory charges, a request center for privacy rights and zones based on travel time. After that come payouts, disputes, seller analytics and the languages your customers use. We set priorities with you in discovery so the first release is legally sound and still small enough to launch quickly.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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