Restaurant Web Platform & Online Ordering System
System for a restaurant, featuring a customer interface and an administrative panel for operational control. Built using React.js, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
Goal: Comprehensive Restaurant Management
Running a modern restaurant involves many complex tasks. The goal was to create a system for managing products, orders, reservations, messages, and user accounts—both staff and customers. The system also needed to provide sales data to support subsequent business decisions.
My Solution: Full-Stack Architecture
I designed and implemented a full-stack application, focusing on modularity, security, and scalability. The system offers separate interfaces for customers and for staff.
Customer Panel: Full Control for Users
The customer panel allows account management, viewing order history, and updating personal data, including changing the password or permanently deleting the account.
Administrator Panel: Central Management
The administrative panel enables management of products and categories, user and staff accounts, as well as table reservations. The administrator can also read and respond to customer messages directly from the panel.
Implementation and Technologies Used:
- Authorization: Implementation of JWT tokens, OAuth2 (Google/Facebook), and role-based access control for secure user and staff management.
- Data Management: Use of MongoDB with Mongoose for flexible and scalable data operations, supporting complex structures for products, orders, and users.
- API: RESTful API in Node.js/Express.js covering CRUD operations for all key entities (products, orders, users, reservations, messages, staff, categories).
- Payments: Stripe integration for online payments, including webhook handling for automatic order status updates.
- Real-time statistics and reporting: Endpoints for sales statistics, visit tracking, and dashboard overview.
- Responsive UI: Design in React.js and Mantine UI, ensuring a consistent user experience on all devices.
- Clean Code and Best Practices: Adherence to industry standards for modular and maintainable code, including error handling and structured logging.
Business Value:
Increasing restaurant turnover through:
- ✓Process Streamlining: Automation of orders, reservations, and inventory management, reducing manual workload.
- ✓Better Customer Engagement: Providing a smooth online experience for ordering, booking, and account management.
- ✓Decision Support: Delivering real-time data and statistics via the administrative dashboard.
- ✓Ensuring Security: Implementation of robust authorization, authentication, and payment handling mechanisms.
- ✓Scalability: Building a system capable of growing with the restaurant's needs.