Tabouret
Background
Tabouret is a concept for a neighbourhood restaurant with its own ordering app. Guests order from the same page at the table, for pickup or for delivery, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
It started from a frosted-glass food app design: soft pastel light, glass cards, plates seen from above that spill out of their cards, and black pill buttons. I turned it into a working app.
Core problem
Delivery marketplaces take a cut of every order and list a restaurant next to all of its competitors, while the restaurant’s own site is often a PDF menu and a phone number. Tabouret gives one restaurant an ordering flow as smooth as the big apps, under its own name.
Our Process
Every dish is a real photo shot from above, cut out as a round plate so it floats over its card. On larger screens the menu and the dish sit side by side in two glass panels, and the plate hangs over the panel’s edge.
The type is Figtree and every action is a black pill. Light and dark themes follow the device. Opening hours and time slots follow the restaurant’s own time zone, and everything the restaurant changes, from the menu and prices to hours, fees and promo codes, lives in one settings file.
What I built
01 - A menu that feels like an app
Categories, search, a chef’s pick, favourites and dietary filters for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free dishes.
02 - Dishes you make your own
Each dish has its own options, from how you like your eggs to priced extras with a limit, plus special instructions and a live total.
03 - Eat in, pick up or delivery
A table number from a QR code, a delivery minimum and a free-delivery threshold, promo codes, tax, and time slots that only fall within opening hours.
04 - Live order tracking
A progress ring, a step-by-step timeline, an estimated time, order history and one-tap reorder.
Key Deliverables
- Concept and ordering flow
- Visual direction (frosted glass, pastel light, top-down food photography)
- Layouts for phone, tablet and desktop
- Light and dark themes
- Menu, cart, checkout and order tracking
- Static web app, deployed on Vercel
Results and Impact
Tabouret is a concept, not a real restaurant yet. You can try the whole flow: orders stay in your browser and move through the kitchen on their own. The dish photos are free stock photos from Pexels.
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