Restaurant website and ordering

Afro Flavours

A website and API for a West African restaurant and grocery in Auckland: table bookings, online ordering, catering requests, events and an admin dashboard.

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Data models: 100
API endpoints: 35
Pages

Overview

Afro Flavours needed one place for guests to book a table, order food and groceries, request catering and find out what is on. Staff needed an easy way to manage all of it without touching code.

I built the Next.js website and the Express API, including the admin dashboard the team uses day to day.

What I built

Bookings
Dine-in, event and African-experience bookings with live availability, double-booking checks and special-hours overrides.
Menu and online shop
Restaurant menu and groceries with a cart, checkout for delivery or pickup, and a tracking page for each order.
Catering
Catering requests with file attachments, handled from the admin dashboard.
Events, reviews and gallery
Events, customer reviews, a photo gallery, a newsletter and a contact form.
Admin dashboard
Manage bookings, orders, payments, menu, products, events, messages, reviews and site details, with exports.

Engineering notes

Order numbers come from an atomic counter, and every status change adds an entry to the order's timeline.
Admin routes sit behind a JWT guard; the API is rate limited and validates every request.
Stripe payment intents and webhooks for bookings and catering, with refunds from the admin side.
Transactional email through Resend and image storage on Cloudinary.