Mobile ordering · Rewards · AI concierge · Your brand
Turn more first-time diners into regulars—with an app built around your restaurant.
Give guests one beautiful place to order pickup, earn meaningful rewards, reorder favorites, and get instant answers from your restaurant's AI concierge.
Founder Nick McCandless has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Yahoo, and numerous other publications for accomplishments helping businesses around the world.
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No templates. Every restaurant gets its own experience.
Explore ten creative directions. Your restaurant's app would be designed around your brand, menu, customers, and goals—not adapted from a generic template.
Choose a restaurant style to preview its app.
Thursday — Seating II · 8:30 · Hayes Valley
Fourteen courses,one counter.
…and eleven more, revealed at the counter.The counter · twelve seats, choose yours
Chef Arata Kōno · Members receive first release of each month's seatings, and the sake pairing from his cellar.
$220 per guest · prepaid · 14 courses over two hours
Design concept 01 · Japanese omakase
Kōyo
Designed for a twelve-seat counter
Kōyo doesn't sell takeout at 11pm — it sells anticipation. So the app leads with the evening's menu and the chef's story, and ordering is replaced entirely by reservations with seat selection and prepaid seatings.
- Reservations-first: no cart, no checkout, no clutter
- Editorial pacing — one course at a time, cinematic photography
- Members unlock priority seatings and cellar pairings
Why owners put their restaurant in their guests' pocket
More direct pickup & repeat orders
Ordering again is designed to take seconds — favorites, one-tap reorder, and pickup timing built around your kitchen.
Rewards guests actually use
A full rewards wallet — points, milestones, and redemptions you design — that gives regulars a reason to come back.
You own the relationship
Your brand on every screen, your customer list, your promotions — not a row in someone else's marketplace.
Plus push notifications and promotions you control — slow-Tuesday bundles, new menu drops, double-point nights.
Built by a team restaurants can trust with their brand
Founder Nick McCandless has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, Yahoo, and numerous other publications for accomplishments helping businesses around the world.
500+
products shipped
10+ yrs
senior delivery
100s
of apps from one platform we built
Millions
of users served
Every app is designed and engineered around your restaurant — your menu, your rewards rules, your voice — never a marketplace template. Best fit: restaurants with real pickup and repeat business. If an app isn't the right move yet, we'll tell you.
Also: SEO & AEO for your restaurant
Beyond the app, we can grow your discoverability and traffic with SEO and AEO — answer engine optimization — so Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT understand your menu, location, and story well enough to recommend you when people ask where to eat.
Questions restaurant owners ask
What does a custom restaurant app include?
Mobile ordering for pickup, a rewards program designed around your restaurant, one-tap reordering, push notifications and promotions you control, and a 24/7 AI concierge that answers guest questions — all under your brand, built around your menu and how your kitchen actually works.
How much does a restaurant app cost?
It depends on scope — a focused ordering-and-rewards app is a different build from one that adds reservations, catering, and POS integration. Every project starts with a complimentary design concept, and you receive a clear proposal before any commitment, so you know the exact investment up front.
How is this different from third-party delivery marketplaces?
On a marketplace, the platform owns the customer relationship, the data, and the experience — and takes a cut of every order. Your own app is yours: your brand on the guest's home screen, your customer list, your promotions, and direct repeat orders.
What is the AI concierge?
A restaurant-specific assistant, available 24/7 in your app and on your website. It answers questions about your menu, allergens, hours, and specials, recommends dishes, and helps with orders — in your restaurant's voice, grounded in your actual menu.
Can you help guests find our restaurant on Google and ChatGPT?
Yes. Alongside the app, Eltherion offers SEO and AEO — answer engine optimization — improving how search engines and AI assistants such as ChatGPT understand, find, and recommend your restaurant when people ask where to eat.
How do we get started?
Request your complimentary app concept below. We build an initial three-screen design direction from your public brand and menu, personally review it, and reply within one business day — no obligation.
Complimentary concept
See your restaurant as an app.
- A complimentary initial three-screen direction
- Built from your public brand and menu
- Personally reviewed — reply within one business day
- No obligation
Your brand, your menu, your regulars — ordering, rewards, and a 24/7 concierge, designed around your restaurant.
Part of Eltherion's industry practices
What does Eltherion build for restaurants?
Eltherion builds custom-branded ordering apps, websites, and loyalty platforms for independent restaurants, groups, and hospitality brands. We design mobile ordering, one-tap reordering, a complete rewards program, gift cards, and a 24/7 AI guest concierge around how a specific restaurant serves — dine-in, pickup, delivery, or events. Every build is custom to the menu, brand, and workflow rather than a template, and connects to the POS and payment systems you already use where supported. AI helps guests order and answers common questions — it supports your team, it does not replace it.