Food Ordering
Pre-ordering, takeaway, and QR table ordering — three ways to sell food beyond the table.
Turn your menu into a real ordering system. Guests pre-order while they book, order takeaway for pickup, or scan a QR at the table and order from their phone — all from one menu, straight to a live kitchen board. Built on a proper menu with variants, allergens, and customizable ingredients, with tax, receipts, and payments handled.
Why you'll love it
Pre-ordering
Let guests choose their food while they book — required or optional, per guest or per table. The kitchen preps before anyone sits down.
Takeaway & pickup
Take online orders for collection with a pickup time slot, a dedicated takeaway menu, a separate VAT rate, and a cap per slot.
QR table ordering
Guests scan at the table and order from their phone — per-table or single QR, with optional pay-at-table.
One real menu
Categories, variants, images, allergens, removable ingredients, and paid extras — standard menus and multi-course set menus.
Live kitchen board
Orders update in real time with sound alerts; internal kitchens get a kanban board, external kitchens get a batched prep email.
Priced and taxed right
Server-side pricing, per-channel VAT, tax summaries, and your own currency — built in, with no second POS to run.
Built for how kitchens really work
Partner & satellite kitchens
Route orders to a kitchen that isn't your own — a partner or satellite kitchen prepares the food for you, while the booking stays in Nine Tables.
Prep lists, on your schedule
An external kitchen gets the order list by email — batched ahead of service or the moment an order lands, in its own language, with one-click confirmation.
Every dish to the right kitchen
Route each product to the kitchen that makes it — one central kitchen can serve several rooms, floors, or concepts under one roof.
See it in action
Getting started takes just minutes. Here's how it works.
- Build your menu once — categories, products, variants, allergens, and customizable ingredients.
- Install the apps you want — Pre-ordering, Takeaway, and QR Table Ordering — and pick a menu for each.
- Guests order: while booking, for pickup, or by scanning a QR at the table.
- Orders hit a live kitchen board — or email an external kitchen — priced and taxed correctly.
