Built for the owner. Who's also the cook.
Working the floor and the phone, paying 30% to a delivery app for a customer walking past the door.
Software that didn't love them back.
A website vendor. An ordering platform. A marketing tool. A reservations app. A POS that talked to none of them. Plus a 30% cut to a marketplace for every "new" customer, most already local.
Five subscriptions, three logins, two tablets on the counter. The owner at 11 pm, doing the math to see if the night even paid.
One calm operating system. Built around how a restaurant runs.
Not a builder. Not a marketplace. Not a feature factory. One product for ordering, the phone, the customer list, and the website, running quietly while the owner cooks.
We started with the part that hurts most (the 30% commission) and worked outward. Direct ordering on the restaurant's own site. Then the phone. Then loyalty. Then the bistro side: reservations, table ordering, customer history.
The customer is yours. The margin is yours. The night should be calmer.
- No restaurant should pay a per-order commission to reach a customer that lives three blocks away.
- The customer list is the most valuable thing a restaurant owns. It belongs in your dashboard, not on someone else's server.
- Software for restaurants should feel like an apron: useful, never in the way, and set down at the end of the night.
- One bill. One dashboard. One support number that picks up.
Restaurants on Calode today.
Calode runs the front-of-house for restaurants of every shape: single-shop pizzerias, neighbourhood cafes, multi-location bistro groups. It looks the same on a small cafe's host stand as on a bigger group's. The same things matter at every size.
We're not finished. The product's still moving. But the direction is fixed: more sales, less work, no commission, and the owner sleeping a little better.
If that sounds like the restaurant you're running, we should talk.
Twenty minutes. We'll show you Calode in your restaurant's shoes. No commitment.
Loved by restaurant owners.
Kinda crazy not handing over 30% every week.
We stopped using the delivery apps. Now we only take orders through our own site. Setup took a little work at the start, but now it runs smooth.
Now I just open my phone and see how the branch is doing.
Before Calode, I was running around like crazy taking orders from directors. Now I open my phone and see everything. Orders coming in from the site and the app.
Replaced a $1,000 website quote.
Developers quoted me $800–$1,200 for just a website. With Calode I got the website, online ordering, and more, all in one dashboard, for a small monthly fee.
Kinda crazy not handing over 30% every week.
We stopped using the delivery apps. Now we only take orders through our own site. Setup took a little work at the start, but now it runs smooth.
Now I just open my phone and see how the branch is doing.
Before Calode, I was running around like crazy taking orders from directors. Now I open my phone and see everything. Orders coming in from the site and the app.
Replaced a $1,000 website quote.
Developers quoted me $800–$1,200 for just a website. With Calode I got the website, online ordering, and more, all in one dashboard, for a small monthly fee.