Cloud Kitchen Order Router

Elevator pitch Intelligently route incoming orders across multiple cloud kitchens to minimize delivery time and maximize kitchen capacity.

Industry Food & Beverage Operations / Ghost Kitchen Management

Problem

• Orders pile up at single kitchens, causing delays and customer dissatisfaction.
• Manual routing wastes time and creates bottlenecks during peak hours.

Solution

• Real-time load balancing distributes orders to available kitchen capacity.
• Predictive routing minimizes delivery distance and fulfillment time.

Tools

• order-ingestion: Accepts orders from multiple platforms, returns normalized order data.
• kitchen-capacity-monitor: Tracks active orders and prep time per kitchen, returns availability score.
• delivery-distance-calculator: Computes distance from kitchens to delivery address, returns ranked options.
• order-assignment-engine: Evaluates capacity and distance, returns optimal kitchen assignment.

Widgets

• /dashboard: Real-time order queue, kitchen status, and assignment metrics.
• /kitchen-view: Kitchen-specific active orders and prep timeline.

Conversation starters

• "How do I connect my Uber Eats and DoorDash orders to this router?"
• "Can you show me which kitchen is most efficient for each order type?"