David's Kitchen: Real-Time Food Ordering Done Right

Yes, if the menu is data and not markup. David's Kitchen edits items, prices, availability, and modifiers from an admin screen, and the storefront reads the same records. The trade-off is guardrails. Free-form layout control gets removed so a manager cannot break the ordering flow during the dinner rush.

It doesn't. Tracking only reflects reality when someone marks the state change, so the kitchen workflow has to be faster than ignoring it. One tap per stage, big targets, no login per action. If the staff step is annoying, your tracker becomes a lie the customer can see.

Polling is fine for most restaurant volumes, and it survives flaky mobile networks better than a dropped socket. Sockets win when kitchen screens watch a queue all shift. Pick by who is watching: customers check a few times, kitchen staff watch continuously. David's Kitchen runs both, split by surface.