Lunchbox Batumi

A kitchen in Batumi delivers set lunches: soup, a main and a salad, one price for every day, Sunday off. Every day follows the same routine. Publish the menu, collect orders before a cutoff, cook the right number of sets and get them to the right addresses. Taking those orders through chat means retyping each one.

Clients order in a Telegram bot. It shows the week's menu as one post with a button for each day and one for the whole week, and photos of the available days arrive as an album. A client picks a day, the number of sets, cutlery and an address. Orders for a date close the day before, at a time the owner sets.

The owner works in a web dashboard. Requests land on a board with five columns, from new to delivered, and moves between statuses follow fixed rules; rejecting, cancelling or a failed delivery asks for a reason. The menu lives in a monthly calendar, and a day can be dragged to another date. On a taken date the two menus swap, photos included. Every day at 12:00 Batumi time the menu for the day after tomorrow goes to clients with a delivered order in the last seven days. Staff get their own role in the bot with today's orders to pack and deliver.

Work started on 3 October 2026 with a written spec for the bot, and the bot went live the same day, with daily backups from the start. The board, the client list, statistics and broadcasts followed on 4 October, ordering a whole week on 5 October, and on 7 October the choice of cutlery and courier buttons that tell the client the lunch is on the way and the courier has arrived. After the first real weekly order the rule changed: accepting one day accepts the whole week, and the client gets one confirmation. The whole system took ten days.

For the demo we translated the app into English and filled it with fictional orders and clients. You can drag cards across the board and days across the calendar right in the browser.

Clients order lunch in a few taps, and the owner sees what to cook today and where it goes.