Guests scan, order, and pay without leaving their seat.
Put a Plate QR code at a table, lane, seat, or counter. Guests open a live menu on their phone, and each order goes straight to the kitchen and expo.
One 5% starting fee. Your branded ordering site, Plate hosting, setup, kitchen and expo workflow, guest updates, and reporting are included in one platform fee. You can absorb the fee, offset some or all of it with a disclosed ordering fee at checkout, or split the cost. Local rules apply. See the full rate path.
- No app download: one scan opens the live menu
- Guests order and pay when they are ready
- Every ticket reaches the same kitchen and expo workflow
A fit for restaurants that need faster ordering with limited floor staff
- Dine-in rooms that lose turns to slow order-taking
- Taprooms, food halls, and counters with limited floor staff
- Operators who want to add tabs and reorders without more headcount
Included from day one
- Generate a QR code per table so orders arrive tagged with the exact seat and check.
- Let guests browse a live menu, customize items, and pay from their own phone.
- Remove the separate order-taking and re-keying steps from the table-to-kitchen handoff.
- Keep the kitchen in rhythm with orders that route by station as they come in.
What Plate changes in daily service.
Use a live menu, not a static PDF
A QR menu needs to load quickly and reflect current availability. A static PDF cannot update when an item sells out or a modifier changes.
Plate opens a mobile-first menu in the guest's browser and uses live availability so sold-out items stop appearing as orderable.
- Per-table QR codes
- Live availability and modifiers
- Pay-at-table checkout
Let guests order when they are ready
During busy service, guests can wait for a staff member to take the first order or a reorder. QR ordering lets them submit it from the table when they are ready.
The order enters Plate immediately, so staff can focus on service and food running instead of re-entering tickets.
Keep tabs and reorders tied to the same table
Guests can add another item or round from the same table and tab without starting a new order or waiting for staff to return.
Plate keeps reorders connected to the existing visit and routes each item to the appropriate kitchen or bar station.
Your site, hosting, and full workflow are included.
The platform fee starts at 5% and covers ordering, kitchen, expo, guest updates, and reporting without separate Plate setup, hosting, or monthly software charges.
One owner-wide lifetime rate
Revenue processed through Plate is combined across every business under the same owner.
- 5%From the first Plate order
- 3.75%After $2.5M in lifetime Plate revenue
- 2.5%After $10M in lifetime Plate revenue
When the combined lifetime total reaches a threshold, the lower rate applies to future revenue processed through Plate across the owner group. Your branded ordering site, Plate hosting, setup, kitchen and expo workflow, guest updates, and reporting are included in one platform fee.
- $0Plate setup
- $0monthly Plate software
- $0Plate hosting
What operators ask before they start.
Review how Plate fits live service, what can stay in place, and exactly what the platform fee covers.
- Do guests need to download an app to order?
- No. Guests scan the QR code and order from a web page in their phone browser. There is nothing to install.
- Can guests pay from their phone?
- Yes. Plate supports pay-at-table so guests can order and check out from the same screen, or leave a tab open for the visit.
- Does the QR order know which table it came from?
- Yes. Each QR code is tied to a table or seat, so every order arrives tagged to the right check and the right station in the kitchen.