Services · Mobile app development · Restaurant apps
We offer restaurant app development in Los Angeles for operators who want their best customers ordering and booking directly. Codeeo designs and builds the guest app, the web ordering flow, the staff tools and the admin behind them, with California's fee display, allergen and privacy rules handled in the checkout and the menu rather than patched in after launch.
Los Angeles is a driving city spread across dozens of neighborhoods and separate cities. Good restaurant software here is built around parking, pickup timing and a guest who may live forty minutes away but still calls you their place.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Capabilities
The order matters as much as the feature list. A taco counter in Boyle Heights, a Koreatown barbecue house and a tasting menu room in West Hollywood need very different first releases. We start from your busiest problem, whether that is a phone ringing off the hook at lunch, tables lost to no-shows or regulars drifting to marketplace apps, and build outward from there. Every capability below runs from one admin, so a price change or a sold-out special updates the app, the web menu and the kitchen in one step. California law also shapes the build: what the checkout shows, how menus label allergens and how loyalty members are told what their data is worth.
Menu prices and checkout totals that reflect every mandatory charge. Under SB 478, California requires the advertised price to include mandatory fees, with a later exception letting restaurants keep a service charge if it is shown clearly and conspicuously on the menu. The app displays that charge where guests see it before paying. Delivery fees, where you run your own drivers, are itemized the same way.
A checkout that matches what the menu promised.
Guests pick a slot, share their car and press "I'm here" when they arrive. Staff get the alert on a tablet at the pass. For strip-mall spots with tight parking, this keeps the lot moving and the dining room clear. Guests can also leave notes such as a parking level or a gate code for larger complexes.
Faster handoffs at the curb.
Online booking with party size, seating preferences and optional deposits or card holds for prime slots and tasting menus. Automatic reminders and an easy reschedule link cut the no-shows that hurt small rooms the most. Hosts can see guest history and notes, so a regular celebrating an anniversary is recognized at the door.
Full books on Friday and Saturday nights.
From July 2026, California's SB 68 requires chains with 20 or more locations to identify the nine major allergens in their menu items, and a digital menu counts if a non-digital option exists. We tag allergens per item so any operator can meet that standard, chain or not. Menu changes trigger a review flag, so a new sauce does not go live without its allergen tags.
Allergen answers in the menu, not at the pass.
Points, tiers, birthday rewards and member-only dishes. Under California privacy rules, a loyalty program that trades rewards for personal data needs a notice of financial incentive, so we build that notice and the opt-in into signup. Members can opt out of marketing at any time while keeping their points.
A loyalty program your lawyer can approve.
Concert and game nights at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl or Crypto.com Arena send waves of guests who need to eat and leave on time. A pre-order window lets them choose dishes when they book, so the kitchen fires on arrival and the table turns before the show starts.
Guests make their show; the table turns on schedule.
App, web and dine-in tickets merge on kitchen screens by station, with timers and color states. Slot caps stop pickup orders from flooding the line during a full dining room, and quoted times adjust to real prep load. Managers can pause pickup for fifteen minutes with one tap when a ticket backlog builds.
The line sees one queue, not three.
Many Los Angeles kitchens and guests work in Spanish as well as English, and Korean, Chinese, Armenian or Tagalog may matter in your area. The app can show menus and notifications in the languages your guests read, managed from one admin. Translations sit beside the English text in the admin, so a new dish is never published in only one language.
More guests able to order without asking.
Role-based access for owners, managers and shift leads: menu edits, 86 lists, hours, slot limits, refunds and reports by daypart and location. Tip reports separate tips from sales and service charges for payroll. Every refund and price change is logged with the user who made it.
Managers fix problems during service, from a phone.
Orders flow into your POS and payments run through a PCI-compliant processor with Apple Pay and Google Pay. We connect to the POS you already use where its interface allows, so staff do not key orders twice. If you change processors later, saved cards and wallets can move with your vendor's migration tools.
One order record from phone to receipt.
Good fits
Restaurant mobile app development Los Angeles operators commission tends to start from one of four positions. Each needs a different first release, and naming yours early saves time and money. The notes below describe what we usually recommend, though discovery may change the order once we see your data and your current tools.
If most of your takeout runs through third-party apps, your regulars are paying their fees and you are paying commission on customers you already won. California's Fair Food Delivery Act at least requires those platforms to have an agreement with you before taking your orders. A direct pickup app with simple rewards gives regulars a reason to order from you instead. Loyalty and saved orders matter more than discovery features at this stage.
Start with the customers who already know you.
Tasting menus and small rooms in places like Silver Lake, Highland Park or the Arts District need booking with deposits, prepaid experiences and guest notes the kitchen can read before service. Ordering may come later, or not at all, and that is a fine plan. Online bookings can also sync to the host stand so walk-ins and reservations sit in the same view.
Counter-service concepts spread across the Westside, the Valley and the South Bay need per-location menus and hours, curbside, loyalty and reporting that compares sites. If you are near 20 locations, we plan for the allergen and calorie labeling rules that apply to chains. The admin also tracks utilization per location, so you can see which sites need the most attention.
Restaurants feeding production offices, studio crews and corporate lunches in Burbank, Culver City or Downtown need catering orders with headcounts, lead times, invoices and deposits. We build that flow alongside regular pickup so both run from one admin. Recurring orders for regular clients can repeat on a schedule with one confirmation.
Engagement
We do not have an office in California. Our team of 80+, based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, works remotely with clients in Los Angeles, and every discovery session, review and demo happens by video call. Most restaurants begin with a fixed-scope first release. After launch, a monthly retainer covers menu changes, store updates and new features, and growing groups can take a dedicated team for a longer program.
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
Flutter or React Native for iOS and Android, a fast web ordering flow for guests who will not install anything, and a cloud backend in your own account. We pick the tools around your POS and the people who will maintain the app.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Direct ordering, reservations, loyalty and the tools your staff use to run them.
Most projects include a guest app for iOS and Android, a web ordering and booking flow, a kitchen display or POS connection, and an admin for menus, hours and reports. California rules shape the details: how service charges appear, how allergens are labeled and how loyalty data is disclosed. We confirm the first release in writing before design, then build the rest in planned stages. Timing depends on integrations and locations, and we agree it during discovery.
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