We build custom food delivery apps for restaurants, cloud kitchens, and multi-vendor marketplaces — covering the full three-sided ecosystem: a customer ordering app, a restaurant/kitchen dashboard, and a driver app, all connected to one live order-tracking backend. Whether you want a single-restaurant ordering app to cut out third-party commission, or a full multi-restaurant marketplace like a regional Uber Eats, we build it around your menu logic, delivery zones, and payment setup.
What Goes Into a Food Delivery App
A food delivery app is really three connected apps plus an admin panel. The customer app handles browsing, cart, live order tracking, and payment. The restaurant app manages incoming orders, prep-time updates, and menu availability. The driver app handles job dispatch, navigation, and proof of delivery. Behind all three sits a backend that matches orders to drivers, calculates delivery fees by distance, and keeps every party looking at the same live order status. Getting this coordination right — so a customer sees an accurate ETA the moment a driver moves — is the difference between an app people trust and one they delete.
Single-Restaurant vs Multi-Vendor Marketplace
A single-restaurant app is the fastest way for an established brand to stop paying 20-30% commission to aggregators and own the customer relationship directly. A multi-vendor marketplace is a bigger build — vendor onboarding, commission handling, payouts, and a discovery experience — but it is a platform business in its own right. We help you pick the right model for your budget and stage, and architect the app so you can start single-restaurant and expand to multi-vendor later without a rebuild.
What's Included
Real-time map tracking from kitchen to doorstep, with accurate ETAs that update as the driver moves.
Restaurants toggle items, set prep times, and manage modifiers and combos without touching code.
Card, wallet, UPI, and cash-on-delivery, with in-app tipping and automated driver/vendor payouts.
Distance-based fees, delivery-radius rules, and driver matching that keeps orders moving efficiently.
How We Work
We define whether you need single-restaurant or multi-vendor, your delivery zones, and your payment and payout flows.
Customer, restaurant, and driver experiences designed together so the whole order flow feels seamless.
Ordering, live tracking, payments, and dispatch built on one backend and tested against real order scenarios.
App Store and Play Store launch, plus onboarding for your restaurants and drivers.
We tune dispatch, add cities or vendors, and improve reorder rates based on real usage data.
Tools & Technology
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to build a food delivery app?
A single-restaurant ordering app typically runs $15,000-$35,000, while a full multi-vendor marketplace with customer, restaurant, and driver apps ranges from $40,000-$90,000+ depending on features and delivery logic. See our app development cost guide for detailed bands.
Can I build an app like Uber Eats or DoorDash?
Yes — a multi-vendor food delivery marketplace is exactly that model. We build the customer, restaurant, and driver apps plus the admin and dispatch backend that ties them together.
Will it work for a cloud kitchen or single restaurant?
Absolutely. A single-restaurant or cloud-kitchen app lets you take orders directly and avoid aggregator commissions, while keeping the full ordering and delivery experience under your brand.
How does live driver tracking work?
The driver app streams GPS location to the backend, which relays it to the customer app in real time over WebSockets — so customers always see an accurate driver position and ETA.
How long does a food delivery app take to build?
A single-restaurant app takes roughly 8-12 weeks; a full multi-vendor marketplace typically takes 4-6 months including all three apps and the admin panel.
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