Concept prototypeProject profile 04 · Sarcastic restaurant operations

SIC Pizza POS

An original, self-initiated restaurant concept built as a mobile-first tableside POS and collaborative-ordering prototype that carries diners, configured items, guest proposals, kitchen status, split payments, and an intentionally sarcastic brand voice through one restaurant workflow.

Operating signal

Keep the personality loud while pricing, approvals, kitchen state, and payment boundaries stay literal

Where this pattern fits

Industries and applicable uses

The interface and operating record would be configured around the terminology, decisions, and constraints of each business.

Independent restaurantsPizza shopsBars and taproomsFood hallsPop-ups and eventsMulti-location concepts

Tableside point of sale

Give servers a responsive floor, table, diner, modifier, pricing, review, and kitchen-submission path that works across handheld and desktop-sized screens.

Collaborative guest ordering

Let guests join a table without an account, view the shared order, and propose items while preserving employee approval before anything reaches production.

Kitchen display workflow

Carry confirmed items into a constrained submitted, making, ready, and served lifecycle so front- and back-of-house views share the same operational state.

Split payment and audit trail

Model diner-level allocations, tips, payment-provider boundaries, and append-only actor history before introducing certified payment processing or reconciliation.

Open the interactive prototypeUse the current browser-runnable vertical slice to explore employee access, floor, ordering, kitchen, guest, payment, and history views.Packages, process & pricingSee what an audit, focused restaurant workflow, or connected system could include and cost.Workflow automationExplore how ordering, approvals, kitchen transitions, notifications, and exception handling can become one controlled operating flow.Review the source and architectureInspect the public repository, domain rules, persistence schema, implementation boundaries, and phased production backlog.

Product media

System in view

Verified product media appears here when available; clearly labeled placeholders identify what still needs to be supplied.

SIC Pizza POS interactive floor layout showing active table states, guest counts, and server assignments — Interactive floor plan. The responsive floor grid keeps table occupancy, dining timers, and active ticket states visible at a glance.

SIC Pizza POS action dashboard detailing urgent table actions, pending orders, and service notifications — Action priority dashboard. Priority queues highlight actionable next steps across front-of-house service and kitchen fulfillment.

SIC Pizza POS kitchen display screen tracking order tickets, pizza oven timings, and recipe modifiers — Kitchen display system. The kitchen display synchronizes ticket firing timers, modifier alerts, and order completion directly with tableside staff.

SIC Pizza POS order queue showing staged courses, pizza ticket details, and kitchen routing — Order and ticket queue. Comprehensive order staging handles course progression and ticket firing across high-volume dining shifts.

SIC Pizza POS guest mobile interface displaying pizza customization, shared table tab, and proposal approval flow — Collaborative guest ordering. Guests join active tables via browser or QR, proposing custom pizzas that require server verification before firing.

SIC Pizza POS manager console showing item availability toggles, server shifts, and system configurations — Manager operations console. Operational controls enable dynamic 86ing of ingredients, staff permissions, and brand voice customization.

SIC Pizza POS analytics dashboard displaying revenue metrics, sales trends, and category breakdown — Shift and sales analytics. Real-time analytics surface high-margin modifier trends, hourly rush volume, and kitchen throughput times.

SIC Pizza POS audit trail log showing chronological state transitions, user IDs, and transaction timestamps — Append-only audit trail. Every pricing adjustment, modifier change, and payment transaction is captured in an append-only event history.

SIC Pizza POS expo handoff screen confirming completed orders and runner delivery assignments — Expo and fulfillment handoff. The expo dispatch screen confirms order completion and coordinates table delivery between kitchen and servers.

SIC Pizza POS tablet interface showing pizza builder and tableside order workflow — Tableside tablet interface. Touch-friendly tablet layouts speed up tableside pizza configuration, split-check calculations, and payments.

SIC Pizza POS mobile smartphone view showing compact table status and item selection — Mobile handheld order entry. Handheld mobile views allow servers to add items, fire courses, and check table status on the move.

Operational problem

Restaurant orders cross staff access, tables, diners, modifiers, pricing, guest requests, kitchen production, payment, and support history. When those states drift, the team must reconcile what was requested, approved, fired, served, and paid during active service.

Intended for

Independent restaurants, pizza shops, bars, food halls, pop-up operators, and growing hospitality concepts that want an owned ordering experience shaped around their service model rather than a generic terminal workflow.

Previous workflow

A small operation may combine handwritten tickets, verbal kitchen calls, generic terminals, separate QR menus, payment hardware, and manager memory, leaving customer context and production status distributed across people and devices.

Solution

A browser-runnable vertical slice that models employee entry, a multi-table floor, custom pizza pricing, guest item proposals with server approval, kitchen lifecycle transitions, equal-split mock payments, configurable voice, and append-only event history.

Key capabilities

Responsive staff floor and table workflow
Custom items with integer-cent pricing
Guest join and employee approval boundary
Kitchen display lifecycle
Equal-split mocked payment authorization
Configurable sarcastic voice with neutral safety contexts
Multi-location PostgreSQL persistence schema
Append-only audit-event model

Technologies / working stack

Next.js 16 App RouterReact 19TypeScriptDrizzle ORMPostgreSQL schemaZodBunTailwind CSS

Intended outcome

The intended outcome is a restaurant system that keeps floor, guest, kitchen, payment, and audit context connected while allowing a memorable brand voice in non-sensitive moments. The current prototype demonstrates the workflow but has not produced verified service-speed, order-accuracy, or revenue results.

Limitations and status

This is a self-initiated concept, not a commissioned restaurant system. It is an in-progress prototype using in-memory interaction, a seeded development PIN, a decorative same-browser QR flow, mocked kitchen updates, and mocked card authorization. Production persistence, hashed authentication, rotating join tokens, real-time projections, certified payments, refunds, reconciliation, offline recovery, printers, cash drawers, device testing, and security review remain future milestones.

Relevant next step

Does one of these applications resemble your operation?

Start with one current process, the decisions it carries, and the handoffs or exceptions that create the most operating drag.

Discuss a custom POS workflow

Key capabilities

Responsive staff floor and table workflow
Custom items with integer-cent pricing
Guest join and employee approval boundary
Kitchen display lifecycle
Equal-split mocked payment authorization
Configurable sarcastic voice with neutral safety contexts
Multi-location PostgreSQL persistence schema
Append-only audit-event model

Intended outcome

Limitations and status