About this plugin
WowRestro is a complete, commission-free restaurant online ordering and kitchen operations system built specifically for WooCommerce.
Say goodbye to hefty 15–30% aggregator commissions. With WowRestro, you own your customer relationships, keep 100% of your profits, and deliver a slick, lightning-fast ordering experience that keeps hungry diners coming back for more.
Whether you run a bustling pizzeria, trendy cafe, bakery, cloud kitchen, food truck, bar, or multi-location restaurant chain, WowRestro equips you with an enterprise-grade digital ordering suite right inside WordPress.
👉 Live Demo
🚀 Why WowRestro Boosts Customer Engagement & Sales
- App-Like Speed & Flow: Powered by the WooCommerce Store API, customers browse categories, configure toppings, and checkout in seconds without annoying full-page reloads.
- Frictionless Mobile-First Experience: Over 80% of food orders happen on smartphones. WowRestro is engineered from the ground up for thumb-friendly mobile ordering.
- Irresistible Food Customization: Visual modifier popups make upselling toppings, crusts, dips, sizes, and combos effortless.
- Contactless Dine-In QR Ordering: Seat guests, let them scan their table QR code, browse your interactive digital menu, and order directly to their table.
- Real-Time Customer Order Tracking: Keep diners excited and informed with live visual progress updates from “Order Placed” to “Out for Delivery”.
🌟 Key Features Built for Modern Restaurants
📱 High-Converting Menu Storefront (36 Modern Templates)
- Single-Page Ordering App: Fast, responsive menu layout with sticky categories, search bar, and live floating cart.
- 36 Designer Templates: Tailored layouts for pizza places, burger joints, sushi bars, bakeries, cafes, and fine dining.
- Gutenberg Block & Elementor Widget: Embed your interactive food menu anywhere with drag-and-drop ease.
- Dietary Badges & Info: Highlight Veg, Non-Veg, Vegan, Gluten-Free, or Spicy items at a glance.
🍕 Advanced Modifiers, Add-ons & Option Groups
- Custom Modifier Groups: Add checkboxes, radio buttons, or quantity selectors for extras and add-ons.
- Selection Limits: Enforce required minimums and maximums (e.g., “Choose 1 sauce”, “Pick up to 3 toppings”).
- Pre-Selected Defaults: Guide customer choices with default selections to speed up checkout.
- Immutable Snapshots: Order modifiers are permanently locked into the receipt, preventing discrepancies.
🧑🍳 Real-Time Kitchen Order Board (KDS)
- Live Operational Board: Separate order operations into New, Accepted, Preparing, Ready, Out for Delivery, and Completed.
- Push Notifications & Sound Alerts: Real-time Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM HTTP v1) alerts your kitchen staff instantly the moment an order arrives.
- Manual / Phone Order Entry: Take walk-in or phone orders straight from the order board.
- Staff Access Roles: Assign dedicated Kitchen Manager, Kitchen Staff, or Waiter roles without exposing sensitive WordPress admin settings.
🪑 Dine-In QR Table Ordering
- Contactless Digital Table Menus: Print automatic QR codes for each table.
- Automatic Table Tracking: Orders placed via table QR code are tagged with the table number and session automatically.
- Fast Re-Ordering: Guests can order extra drinks or desserts throughout their meal.
📅 Table Reservations Management
- Interactive Booking Widget: Embed table reservations with [wowrestro_reservations].
- Guest Counts & Slot Capacities: Control available seats and time slots to prevent overbooking.
- Booking Confirmation & Statuses: Manage pending, confirmed, seated, and cancelled reservations.
⏱️ Smart Kitchen Capacity & Slot Reservations
- Avoid Kitchen Overwhelm: Cap the maximum number of orders per time slot (e.g., max 10 orders every 15 minutes).
- Atomic InnoDB Ledger: Concurrency-safe slot reservations ensure duplicate slot claims never occur during peak lunch and dinner rushes.
- Delivery & Pickup Windows: Flexible lead times, advance ordering dates, and service-specific schedules.
🏪 Multi-Store & Category-Specific Pages
- Dedicated Store Pages: Run independent ordering pages for sub-brands (e.g., /bakery/ or /cocktail-bar/ ) with their own branding, colours, header, and clean confirmation page ( /confirmation/ ).
- Store Switcher Bar: Seamlessly navigate between locations or concepts using [wowrestro_store_switcher].
- Shared WooCommerce Cart: Smart cart handling ensures orders remain isolated to the correct storefront.
📍 Multi-Location Branch Support
- Assign menu items, operational hours, and orders to specific restaurant branches.
- Allow customers to choose their closest branch using [wowrestro_location_selector].
💳 Seamless Checkout, Tipping & Tracking
- Clean Confirmation URLs: Polished /confirmation/ experience that securely restores the customer’s order session without ugly query keys.
- Tip Suggestions: Preset percentage buttons (10%, 15%, 20%) and custom tip fields at checkout.
- HPOS Compatible: 100% compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and Checkout Blocks.
- Zero jQuery Bloat: Built with vanilla JavaScript and lightweight SVG icons for peak speed and Google Core Web Vitals scores.
📋 Shortcode Quick Reference
Embed WowRestro anywhere on your WordPress site using these flexible shortcodes:
- [wowrestro] – Displays the default online ordering menu.
- [wowrestro template="2" layout="tabs"] – Displays template 2 with tabbed category navigation.
- [wowrestro category="pizza,pasta" show_search="no"] – Restricts the menu to specific categories.
- [wowrestro_menu category="bakery" name="Artisan Bakery" header="store"] – Builds a branded store page.
- [wowrestro_store_switcher label="Our Brands" brand="Main Kitchen"] – Adds a navigation switcher between store pages.
- [wowrestro_reservations] – Embeds the table reservation booking form.
- [wowrestro_tracking] – Displays customer order tracking and status lookup.
- [wowrestro_staff_panel] – Staff ordering terminal for dine-in and POS table orders.
- [wowrestro_location_selector] – Branch switcher for multi-location venues.
💡 Ideal For Every Food Business
- Restaurants & Bistros
- Pizzerias & Italian Trattorias
- Burger Joints & Fast Food
- Cafes, Coffee Shops & Bakeries
- Ghost Kitchens & Cloud Kitchens
- Bars, Pubs & Breweries
- Food Trucks & Pop-up Eateries
- Catering & Meal Prep Services