Food delivery app development by EltexSoft. Marketplaces, restaurant ordering, catering platforms. Ripe (acquired by Hungry), Meal4U. $50-99/hr.
EltexSoft is a food delivery app development company headquartered in Los Angeles, with an office in Lisbon and senior engineers in Ukraine. 11 years in business. We build food delivery platforms, meal planning apps, restaurant marketplaces, and FoodTech products. Clients include Ripe (B2B corporate catering, acquired by Hungry), Meal4U.dk (Danish restaurant ordering), and Tableride.com (restaurant platform). $50-99/hr.
What we ship
Order management, real-time tracking, driver dispatch, route optimization, payment processing, restaurant dashboards. The full delivery stack from menu to doorstep.
Recipe management, ingredient sourcing, subscription billing, dietary preference matching, delivery scheduling, nutritional tracking. Built Ripe, acquired by Hungry.
Restaurant discovery, menu management, table reservations, review systems, loyalty programs, commission management. Two-sided platforms connecting diners with restaurants.
Meal plan subscriptions, flexible skip/pause/cancel, payment retry logic, preference learning, churn prediction. The billing complexity that makes or breaks a food subscription business.
Consumer ordering apps, driver/courier apps, restaurant management apps. iOS and Android. Push notifications for order status, ETA updates, and promotions.
Kitchen display systems, inventory management, prep scheduling, waste tracking, supplier ordering. The back-of-house software that keeps a food operation profitable.
Everyone sees the ordering screen. Behind it: real-time inventory synchronization with restaurant kitchens, driver dispatch algorithms, route optimization, payment splitting across platform, restaurant, and driver, subscription billing with skip/pause/cancel flows, and operations dashboards that need to surface a late order before the customer calls.
EltexSoft is a food delivery app development company. 35-50 senior engineers. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Engineering team in Ukraine. Founded in 2015. We build food delivery platforms, meal planning apps, restaurant marketplaces, and FoodTech products.
Our FoodTech clients include Ripe (B2B corporate catering, acquired by Hungry), Meal4U.dk (Danish restaurant ordering), Tableride.com (restaurant marketplace), and Timealy (food waste reduction, now closed).
Ripe was a B2B corporate catering marketplace in Manhattan: healthy lunches cooked daily and delivered to tech company offices on weekly subscriptions. DigitalOcean, MongoDB and Kickstarter were paying customers before we wrote a line of code. We built the platform and maintained it through the company’s growth and eventual acquisition by Hungry.
The engineering scope: customer ordering, a kitchen operations dashboard, ingredient management with automated shopping lists, weekly subscription billing with flexible scheduling (skip, pause, cancel), dietary customization across dozens of employees per company, delivery logistics for Manhattan, and three separate dashboards for customers, operations and the kitchen.
The acquisition by Hungry is the outcome that matters for other FoodTech founders reading this page. Acquirers perform technical due diligence. A clean, well-documented, well-tested codebase with clear architecture increases enterprise value. A codebase held together with workarounds and tribal knowledge reduces it. We build for the former.
Meal4U is a Danish restaurant ordering platform. Customers browse restaurants, configure dishes with ingredients and modifiers, and order from iOS and Android apps. We took it over after a previous team failed to deliver, cut the scope with the founders, rebuilt both apps and shipped a configurable menu engine. The app earns 1,000+ organic downloads per month on iOS. Read the Meal4U case study.
The challenge specific to restaurant ordering is the menu. A dish is a configurable object with ingredients, modifiers, dependencies and discount rules, and the price has to recalculate on every tap without lag on a mid-range phone. Menu changes from the backend (an ingredient disabled, a price updated, a promotion launched) have to reach the apps immediately.
Tableride is a restaurant discovery and booking platform. Restaurant profiles, menu management, table reservations, review and rating systems, and diner-facing search with filtering by cuisine, price range, location, and availability.
Food delivery platforms. The full stack: consumer ordering app (web and mobile), restaurant dashboard (order acceptance, preparation status, menu management), driver/courier app (dispatch, navigation, delivery confirmation), admin panel (analytics, restaurant management, commission tracking), and payment processing with multi-party splits via Stripe Connect.
Meal kit and subscription services. Recipe management, ingredient logistics, subscription billing, preference learning, churn prediction, delivery scheduling, and packaging optimization. Ripe is the proof point for the subscription mechanics: weekly ordering, skip and pause flows, and recurring billing.
Restaurant marketplaces. Two-sided platforms connecting diners with restaurants. Listing management, search and discovery, reservation systems, review management, loyalty programs, and commission-based payment models.
Kitchen and operations software. Kitchen display systems that replace paper tickets, inventory management with automated reorder points, prep scheduling, waste tracking, supplier ordering, and cost-per-dish analytics. The back-of-house software that determines whether a food operation is profitable.
Ghost kitchen and virtual brand platforms. Multi-brand menu management from a single kitchen, order routing across delivery platforms (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub integration), shared inventory, and consolidated analytics.
Senior FoodTech engineer (dedicated): $50-99/hr.
By project type:
Single-restaurant ordering app (web + mobile): $30K-$60K, 2-4 months.
Multi-restaurant marketplace: $80K-$180K, 5-8 months.
Meal kit subscription platform: $60K-$140K, 4-7 months.
Full delivery platform with driver app and real-time tracking: $120K-$280K, 6-10 months.
Kitchen operations system: $40K-$90K, 3-5 months.
Annual maintenance: 15-20% of build cost.
EltexSoft is a boutique food delivery app development company. 35-50 senior engineers. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Engineering team in Ukraine. Founded in 2015.
Our FoodTech clients include Ripe (acquired by Hungry), Meal4U.dk, and Tableride.com. We also build with Laravel, React, Vue, Django, iOS, and Android.
5.0 Clutch rating across 30+ verified reviews. 200+ five-star Upwork reviews. Top Rated Plus and Expert-Vetted agency status (top 1%). Average client engagement: 3+ years.
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Field notes
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