QR Code Ordering System for Restaurants and Cafés
Guests scan a code with their phone camera, read your restaurant menu, order and pay. No app to download and no account to make — the whole system runs in a browser.
Every QR order lands in the same queue as your counter and online orders, so the kitchen sees one list and nobody writes anything down twice.
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In three numbers
guests scan with the camera they already have
however many phones are ordering at the table
one per table, or one for the whole venue
How a QR code order actually goes
Four guests, one code on the table, and an hour and a half of ordering on the QR code ordering system — without anyone waiting to catch a waiter's eye.
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They sit down and scan
One scan of the code on the table and the menu is on every phone.
The menu opens
Photos, prices and anything sold out, all current to the minute.
The first round goes on
Four phones, four sets of choices, one shared tab for the table.
The kitchen has it
The round arrives with the table number on it. Nobody re-typed a thing.
Staff see the tab
The table and its running total show on the restaurant POS system.
A second round
Another scan is not needed — they add to the same tab from the menu.
Someone calls a waiter
A button on the phone, instead of waving across the room.
A regular earns points
Reward points apply to a QR order the same as any other.
They ask for the bill
Another button. The total is already correct, round by round.
Paid and gone
They pay on their phones and leave. The table is free for the next booking.
One code per table
A table code knows where it is. When a guest scans it the kitchen already knows which table the food is for, which is the whole difference between a QR code ordering system and handing someone a menu on a screen.
The code knows which table the guest is sitting at.
Everyone at the table orders from their own phone onto one shared tab.
Each round goes straight to the kitchen as it is placed.
Buttons to call a waiter or ask for the bill, without leaving the table.
One code for the whole venue
Not every restaurant has tables to label. A master code does the same job anywhere you can stick it, and every scan starts a fresh order rather than joining one.
Put it on the counter, the door, the window, a flyer or the menu.
Every scan starts a fresh order.
The guest picks dine-in or takeaway themselves.
They pay as they order, then watch it being made.
Nothing to download, nothing to join
The fastest way to lose an order is to ask someone to install something first. A contactless ordering system only works if it is genuinely quicker than putting a hand up in a busy restaurant.
Guests scan with the phone camera they already use.
No app to download and no account to create.
It opens in the browser, on any phone from the last several years.
Contactless from the first tap to the receipt.
Four phones, one table, one tab
Everyone orders what they want when they want it, and it all lands on the same tab. The table number is shown on the menu and again at payment, so nobody is ever unsure where the food is going.
Every phone at the table adds to the same running tab.
Add a round whenever, without scanning the code again.
The table number is shown clearly at the top and at payment.
Staff see the table and its total on the restaurant till at any moment.
Pay now, or pay at the end
Different restaurants want different things. A busy counter wants the money up front; a long dinner does not. The guest chooses, round by round.
Pay as you order, or leave the tab open until the end.
The choice is made each round, not set once for the whole room.
Reward points can come off a QR bill the same as any other.
Ask for the bill with a button when the table is ready.
The menu on the phone is always the real one
A printed menu goes out of date the moment the kitchen runs out of something. Change a price or mark a dish sold out once, and every code in the restaurant is already showing it.
Photos, descriptions, prices and extras on every item.
Mark a dish sold out and it disappears from every code at once.
The same menu as your website, your till and your kiosk — one system.
Run a different menu at different times of day.
A scan ends up where every other order does
A QR ordering system is only worth having if the restaurant kitchen does not have to treat it as a special case. On Foodship it is simply another order in the same queue.
The docket prints with the table number on it.
Or it appears on the kitchen display beside everything else.
The same queue as your restaurant food ordering system and your counter.
Staff work one list on the restaurant POS system, not four.
Print your codes and put them out
Setting the system up is an afternoon, not a project. Your codes come out of the admin panel ready to print.
Generate a code for each table, or one for the venue.
Print them straight from your admin panel.
Stick them on table talkers, menus, windows or a flyer.
Change the menu later and the printed codes still work.
Two kinds of code, two different jobs
Most restaurants use one or the other. Some use both in one system — table codes in the dining room, a master code at the takeaway window.
A code on every table
- Sit-down restaurants
- Cafés with table service
- Bars and pubs
- Anywhere guests stay at a table
One code for the venue
- Counter-service cafés
- Food trucks and market stalls
- Events and pop-ups
- Takeaway windows
What else switches on beside QR
Each one shares the same menu, the same orders and the same guests as your QR code ordering system. Turn on what you need.
Built in Australia for Australian venues
Foodship is made here and supported here. The best contactless ordering system is the kind your guests never have to think about, and the kind you can get someone on the phone about.
Made for every kind of restaurant, café and takeaway.
Tax, pricing and payments set up for a local venue.
Support from people in your own time zone.
No contract, no setup fee, and a 1 month free trial.
QR code ordering questions we get asked
A QR code ordering system lets a guest scan a printed code with their phone, read your menu and place an order without waiting for a waiter. The order goes to your kitchen the same way a counter order does in any restaurant, and the guest can pay on the phone too.
No. The code opens in the phone browser. There is no app and no account — a guest can scan and be ordering in a few seconds, which is the only way a contactless ordering system actually gets used.
A table code is printed per table in the restaurant and knows where the guest is sitting, so rounds reach the kitchen with a table number. A master code is one code for the whole venue, used where there are no tables to label — a counter, a food truck or a market stall.
Yes. Everyone scans the same code and their choices join one shared tab. They can keep adding rounds through the night and settle it together at the end, or pay as they go.
In the same queue as everything else — on the till, on the kitchen display, or printed as a docket. Staff are not watching a separate tablet for QR orders — it is one system.
Print them from your admin panel. Generate one per table or a single code for the venue, then put them on table talkers, menus or a window.
Yes, with a master code. Guests scan, order and pay where they stand — contactless, and it clears the queue at the window and means no order is taken twice.
Foodship is Australian, built for venues here and supported in local hours.
See your own menu behind a code
Send us your menu and we will show you what your guests would see when they scan — on a table code and on a master code.
No contract · No setup fee · 1 month free trial