MenuDirect is the complete ordering platform for independent restaurants — online ordering, a live kitchen display, automatic ticket printing, customer accounts, and loyalty. One flat monthly fee. Zero commission. No middlemen.
What delivery apps take
Commission with MenuDirect
Of every order stays yours
One order, start to finish
A customer orders on their phone. Seconds later it's on your kitchen screen and printing a ticket — automatically. No tablet-juggling, no re-keying, no missed orders.
Lotus Thai
● Open · Pickup & Delivery
Pad Thai
$9.00
Spring Rolls
$6.50
Thai Iced Tea
$3.50
#0042
Pickup · ASAP
Bill · 6:14 PM
Runs full-screen on any kitchen tablet — new orders pop with a sound.
LOTUS THAI
Order Receipt
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ORDER #0042PICKUP
ASAP
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2 Pad Thai18.00
1 Spring Rolls6.50
1 Thai Iced Tea3.50
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Subtotal28.00
Tax4.20
TOTAL32.20
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Thank you!
Auto-prints to your thermal kitchen printer — no computer needed.
Not a pile of disconnected tools. One platform that takes the order, runs the kitchen, and keeps customers coming back.
Pickup, delivery, and scheduled orders from any phone — with real-time tracking your customers can follow.
Build items with reusable option groups (sizes, add-ons, spice level). Update prices and photos yourself, live instantly.
Customers get a live status page and email/SMS updates from placed to ready — no "where's my order?" calls.
Take cards on your own Stripe account. Funds land in your bank — no platform holding your money, no commission.
A live full-screen order board for any tablet. New orders pop with a sound — tap to confirm, prep, and mark ready.
Tickets print themselves on your thermal kitchen printer the moment an order lands. No PC in the middle.
Set up the kitchen tablet once with a QR code — it opens straight to the order board, no passwords for staff.
Email and SMS notifications the second an order comes in, plus a paper alert if one sits unaccepted too long.
Customers earn points on every order and redeem a reward at checkout. Turn first-timers into regulars — automatically.
One-tap sign-in by phone. Saved details, order history, and faster reordering — no passwords to forget.
Built-in table booking. Customers reserve online; you manage availability from the same dashboard.
Distance-based delivery areas with their own fees and minimums. Customers see their fee before they check out.
We handle the tech so you can handle the food.
We build it for you — or you build it yourself. A fast, mobile-first ordering site on your own subdomain or custom domain, with your branding and menu.
They find you on Google, land on your site, and place pickup or delivery orders straight from their phone — no third-party app, no commission.
Orders hit your display and printer the instant they come in. Confirm, prep, and mark ready — from a tablet in the kitchen or your phone on the go.
The whole idea
Your menu is online, your kitchen prints every ticket on its own, and every dollar of every order stays with you — no commission, no middleman standing between you and your customers.
Set it up once and it runs itself: orders come in, the kitchen sees them, tickets print. That's the whole idea.
Explore a live ordering siteWhat you keep
On every single order
$0
commission
100%
of orders
Auto
printing
A flat monthly fee — zero commission on orders, and you keep 100% of every payment on your own Stripe account. Every plan includes SSL, hosting, and Canadian support.
Your menu online
$99 one-time setup
Self-service dashboard
$199 one-time setup
Online ordering + kitchen
$299 one-time setup
The full platform
$399 one-time setup
Browse a working restaurant site built on MenuDirect. Place a test order, explore the menu, check hours — everything works.
Open Demo SiteI'm Frank Kahle. I've been building technology infrastructure for 45 years — ISPs, managed hosting, AI systems. MenuDirect is how I think restaurant tech should work: simple, honest, and owned by the people who use it. When you call, I answer.
Tell me about your restaurant and I'll build a working demo site within 48 hours. No payment, no obligation.