Chinese restaurants
Chinese restaurant online ordering for a long menu full of combos
Chinese restaurant online ordering on your own website, with combos that ask for the side and delivery by courier. Start with a logo and a menu photo, and link Square, Clover, or Toast if you use one.
A long menu does not fit on a phone line
A takeout kitchen sells combos, lunch specials, and family dinners from dozens of dishes, and a phone takes one caller at a time.
- Callers wait on hold while the wok is busy.
- A combo gets taken without the rice or the soup.
- Spice level and a no-peanut note get lost on the way to the kitchen.
- A family dinner for six needs a long list of picks.
- Friday orders pile up faster than the kitchen can cook.
Combos, family dinners, and delivery
Guests build the order on your own page, and the kitchen gets a ticket it can cook from.
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Combos with picks inside picks
A combo asks for the entree, then the side, then the soup. You set the minimum and maximum picks at each step, so no combo goes in half built.
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Allergens, only what you confirmed
Items list the nine major allergens as contains or may contain. Guests see only the allergens you confirmed, so an item you have not reviewed makes no claim.
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A family dinner through one link
A host shares a link and each person adds their own dish. The host pays for the whole order, up to 50 people, and the link stops after 24 hours.
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Delivery by courier
Send direct orders out with a courier, and guests track the delivery. Appetier adds no markup to the courier's fee, and delivery fees do not count toward the Growth fee.
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Order for later
Guests schedule an order up to 14 days ahead and pick a time slot. You set how far ahead and how many orders fit in each slot.
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Slower promises when the wok backs up
When the kitchen backs up, new orders are promised a little later. If tickets keep piling up, ordering pauses for a short while and a message tells guests when it resumes.
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Add-ons suggested at checkout
The storefront suggests a drink, a side, or a dessert from what your own guests order together. One tap adds it, and you can switch the suggestions off.
Live before the dinner shift
There is no equipment to buy and no menu to retype.
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Send a logo and a photo of the menu
Appetier reads the dishes and prices from the photo and takes your colors from the logo. You review the draft and apply it.
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Build the combos and set the delivery
Group the picks inside each combo and turn on courier delivery. Take cards on Appetier Pay, or keep the processor you already use.
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Save a card and publish
Publishing needs one priced item, a location ready to sell, and a saved card. The card is a check, and saving it moves no money.
What a takeout kitchen pays
One fee on direct orders, and a slow month costs nothing.
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Nothing until the orders come in
Growth takes no commission. It is a flat monthly fee set by direct sales, never above $199, and a month under $500 costs nothing.
See pricing02
The storefront behind every combo
Choice groups, scheduled orders, and group links on one checkout.
See online orderingYour whole menu, on its own ordering page
If your restaurant has a website, the test drive builds your ordering page from it. Free. Private. No call. An email at your restaurant's domain needs no card. Any other address saves a card first, and saving costs nothing. Without a site, start free with a logo and a photo of your menu.
Next to the register you already use
Guests pay on Appetier Pay, and standard payouts to your bank are free. Any PCI compliant processor you already use works too. If you ring up on Square, Clover, or Toast, connect it and your menu stays matched.
Chinese restaurant FAQs
What takeout and dine-in owners ask first.
What does a Chinese restaurant pay for online ordering?
Can a combo make guests pick a side and a soup?
Can a family order dinner together?
Can I deliver without my own drivers?
What happens when Friday night backs up the kitchen?
Does the page list allergens?
More for a long-menu kitchen
Checks for your costs, plus a page from another delivery-heavy kitchen.
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Direct order savings
See what a month of direct orders keeps for you at your own volume.
See the savings tool02
Cost per order worksheet
Work out what each order costs you before and after going direct.
See the worksheet
Let the menu take the call
Nothing is charged until direct orders come in, so a slow week costs you nothing.