Commercial Food Delivery Platform

Overview

SushiMax.cz is a production-ready food delivery platform developed for a restaurant in the Czech Republic. The project is actively used by real customers and supports online ordering, delivery management, menu synchronization, and restaurant operations. The application consists of a Next.js frontend and a Node.js backend deployed on a self-managed VPS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop frontend features
• Develop backend REST APIs
• Design database structure
• Implement business logic
• Integrate external services
• Support production environment
• Optimize performance

Business Challenges

• Worked directly with two restaurant owners with different business requirements.
• Collected and clarified project requirements.
• Found compromises between business expectations and technical implementation.
• Designed the application architecture from scratch.

Solutions

• Integrated Poster POS API.
• Implemented webhook synchronization.
• Built online ordering workflow.
• Developed delivery zones and delivery cost calculation.
• Implemented email notifications.
• Configured production deployment.

Infrastructure

Achievements

• Successfully launched the platform into production.
• Website is used by real customers.
• Restaurant owners actively use the administration panel.
• Delivered a complete commercial solution from idea to deployment.

Lessons Learned

• Working with real clients.
• Gathering business requirements.
• Designing production-ready architecture.
• Deploying and maintaining Linux servers.
• Supporting a live production application.

Challenges

• Production deployment
• Database optimization
• Infrastructure migration