OPENCATER connect diners (a.k.a foodies) to local cooks or chefs within the community. Right now we support dinner pickup and working on chef/cook delivery before rolling out other 3rd party integration. We not only support local cooks or chef, we also support small to large scale restaurants to use our platform to serve diners big catering needs.
Making food choice for events or parties involves a budget restriction. So diners are to discover restaurants or home cooks /chef using local classifieds :-|. Then negotiate with them through phone calls (usually ends in voicemail >.<* ) and it gets even more complex when you manage order list (usually on a piece of paper X[ ) for each restaurants.
OPENCATER address these problems through simple workflows:
+ Discover food listings from home cooks to restaurants (even food trucks B-) ).
+ Pick items and send your "Order Inquiry" to multiple listers (for personal consumption or event food organizing).
+ Communicate with a cook using our built in chat page and modify Order List as you negotiate. Yes, the chat page has the Order List to refer and edit at anytime (。♥‿♥。).
+ Once diner is happy with the negotiation, he can handshake with the cook and wait for "Payment request" from the cook.
+ Finally, Pickup or Delivery process takes place through a simple notification workflow.
+ We provide a way for cooks to make extra revenue through Chef Delivery feature. Chef sets the price /km we do the calculation and provide delivery cost for the diner.
+ Any update to an Order is notified through SMS and Email. Reminder mails are sent out to cooks to respond to Order Inquiries.
We strive to make our services as versatile as possible and have an ever expanding attitude to add more features that are focused towards simplifying existing problems food industry face when it comes to embracing a shared economy.