Medlicott Design has a long connection with the hospitality sector and the latest project was to develop an online meal ordering and delivery system for Old Bank Eats in Timaru.

The project involved ecommerce for ordering, a brief to make it simple for customers to select their meal from the menu, while also making it easy for staff to manage the website themselves.

The project also involved working with another company to automate the printing of orders directly to the kitchen for the chef.

With the implications of Covid however, while the timing was ahead of the game to have online ordering and delivery of takeaway meals running, the fact that the client no longer had the jump on competitors as every food business was forced to try the online approach meant that the delivery of meals and online ecommerce has been put on hold and the website reverting to a brochure like informational site.

Below are examples of the food layout when it was in action