They order and pay from their phone, pick a pickup time, and skip the wait. You set the pace, keep your margins, and the money lands straight in your bank.
AheadEats turns the customers you're losing to busy phones and long lines into paid, ready-to-go orders — on the simplest setup in the business.
Every engaged phone line and long counter queue is a sale walking out the door. Order-ahead captures those — more covers, more revenue, the same kitchen.
A small flat fee per order — not the 20–30% the delivery apps bleed you for. And your customers pay the exact same menu price.
Cap how many orders per time slot so you never get slammed. Your menu, your prices, your hours — with sold-out and holiday toggles built in.
Runs on the phone you already have. No new hardware, no contracts, nothing to crash on your end. Your customers' phones do the work.
Three steps. You don't lift a finger to set it up — I build your menu and your QR code for free.
A little code on the table, counter, or window — wherever people wait.
Pick items, add notes, choose a pickup time, pay by card. Done in under a minute.
Prints on a ticket or shows on a screen — name, pickup time, and exactly what they want.
No monthly fee. No commission. Just a small fee per order — here's exactly where the money goes on a $40 order.
Your customer pays the same $40 as at your counter. You already pay card-processing fees on every card sale — so the only new cost is our small fee, about $2 on this order.
The stuff that has to just work, does. Payments run on Stripe, the same engine behind millions of businesses. Hosting is enterprise-grade and always on. Your banking is entered with Stripe directly and never touches us. There's no app for you to install and nothing on your counter to freeze up — and if an order ever isn't right, it's your kitchen and your call, exactly like today.
I'll build your menu and your QR code for free, and you can try it for two weeks — no cost, no commitment. If your customers don't use it, you've lost nothing.