Restaurant Platform // Active
MealHQ
A premium restaurant platform with an editorial public website, admin dashboard, POS, and an offer management system — built for hospitality brands.
THE CHALLENGE
Restaurants needed a polished online presence and an internal system to manage their menu, special offers, and staff — without juggling disconnected tools.
THE APPROACH & SOLUTION
Built a complete restaurant platform: a premium editorial public website (home, menu, about, contact), an admin dashboard for menu and offer management, a POS for order handling, and role-based staff access — all running on a single Dockerized Laravel stack.
MY CONTRIBUTIONS
- → Laravel monolithic architecture with MySQL and Docker containerization.
- → Premium editorial public website with hero slider, menu system, about, and contact pages.
- → Special Offers module with per-item discounted pricing and homepage offer carousel.
- → Admin dashboard for menu categories, items, modifiers, banners, FAQs, and inquiries CRUD.
- → POS module for order handling with role-based staff access control via Spatie permissions.
- → Dockerized deployment with multi-stage builds and automated CI/CD pipeline.
TECH STACK
LaravelPHPTailwind CSS v4Alpine.jsMySQLDocker
ENGINEERING DECISIONS & HIGHLIGHTS
- Designed and built a premium editorial public website with hero slider, dynamic menu, about, and contact pages.
- Developed a Special Offers module with per-item discounted pricing and home-page offer selection.
- Built admin CRUD for menu categories, items, modifiers, banners, FAQs, and inquiries.
- Implemented role-based staff management with Spatie permissions for granular user and role access.
- Containerized the full stack with Docker for reliable VPS deployment and CI/CD pipeline.