End-to-End Food Delivery Application for Zimblyeat.com, Ireland
Client Details
Zimbly eat is a virtual kitchen delivery platform that establishes an additional revenue stream for restaurant businesses and target a new customer base by connecting zimblyeaters to a takeaway experience and meal-box service that has a curated menu of quality food thereby supporting local.
Location
Ireland, UK
Industry
Food Delivery
Platform
Web & Mobile
Business Requirement
The founder and CCO of Zimblyeat.com, Mr. Andrine Mendez approached us with just an idea for a virtual kitchen concept that utilized the unused kitchen capacity of restaurants in the UK and Ireland. The business requirement consisted of multiple use cases spread across multiple platforms. The priority for the client was to launch the Minimum Viable Product in less than 3 months. The MVP needed to have a customer side web app for ordering curated menus, a super admin web panel, a kitchen POS mobile application to manage orders and a virtual restaurant dashboard to manage virtual restaurant brands.
MTL Solution and Approach
As the client’s business model was also evolving on the go based on inputs from the market, going with a waterfall model wasn’t an option. We planned the product development in an agile fashion with weekly sprints and daily stand-up meetings with the client. In under a month the team came up with the basic food delivery system in the web with the super admin, restaurant kitchen dashboards and the customer side e-commerce ordering system. The second month was more focussed on building the POS mobile app for kitchens to fulfil orders. Sunmi V2 Pro, an Android based POS system was used. The third month was focussed on building more features based on market feedback, testing, bug fixes and deployment.
Solution Provided
Metric Tree Labs proposed a customized mobile application built using React Native, a versatile and cross-platform development framework. The mobile application was designed to address the specific needs of both customers and the super admin responsible for business management.
Application Features
Customer Web and Mobile App
- View restaurants in a location coupled with Google maps integration.
- View menu, pictures, reviews, and location.
- Avail discounts based on day, time, and weather.
- Order meals real-time.
- See order progress real time
- Receive delivery status and updates
Restaurant Web and Mobile Application
- Customize restaurant page by adding menu, photos, promotions, and more
- Manage and fulfil orders
- Assign drivers.
- Dispatch orders
- Manage payments and see the analyticsCustomize restaurant page by adding menu, photos, promotions, and more
- Manage payments and see the analytic
Technologies Used
- Web Stack: PHP Laravel, Apache, Vue.js, MysSQL
- Mobile Application : React Native
- UX Design: Illustrator, Invision, Figma
- DevOps: BitBucket, Jenkins, AWS
- Front end is built in Vue js which is one of the most trusted frontend frameworks in javascript with a large user base.
- Backend : Backend is built in Laravel which is a robust PHP framework which is easy to scale and gives utmost importance to security
- Mobile technologies: The mobile apps are built in React Native which combines the best parts of native development with React, a best-in-class JavaScript library for building user interfaces. React enables app to be built on two platforms at once, while still retaining the native look, feel, and productivity of an app built on the specific iOS or Android platform.
- Api framework is done in REST which makes the communications between the backend and frontend seamless.
- Database : Mysql database used in the application is hosted in Amazon RDS which can scale database’s compute and storage resources with only a few mouse clicks or an API call, often with no downtime.
Services Provided
- MVP Development
- UX Design
- Web Application Development
- Mobile Application Development
