Restaurant Manager — Online Food Ordering, Delivery & Pickup

Changelog

0.6.3

• Menu categories and food items are now global instead of scoped per location, matching how delivery zones and pickup time slots already worked — simpler setup for single-location restaurants.
• Added product photos: pick an image from the WordPress media library directly in the product editor, shown on the storefront and falling back to a letter placeholder when no photo is set.
• Redesigned the storefront menu into category-grouped sections with a card-based layout, quick-jump category filter (defaulting to “All”), and inline variation picker pills — replacing the previous popup for choosing sizes/options.
• Added bookable delivery/pickup time slots at checkout, only shown when the restaurant has configured at least one time slot.
• Added a currency symbol setting, applied everywhere a price is shown to customers.
• Added bulk delete for products and categories in the admin.
• Added a built-in demo data importer (sample categories and dishes) for quickly previewing the storefront.
• Simplified delivery zone configuration to a single fixed delivery fee and free-delivery threshold, replacing the distance-tier rate table.
• Cart contents now persist across page reloads.
• General admin and storefront UI consistency pass: unified form control styling, converted interactive elements to accessible link-style controls, and various layout refinements.

0.6.1

• Removed the external Google Fonts link and the Fraunces/Inter font-family
  references — the storefront and admin now use only the visitor’s system
  font stack, no external requests.
• Removed the fixed 640px max-width on the storefront container. Added a
  Storefront layout setting (Restaurant Manager > Settings): Mobile width
  (compact, centered) or Desktop width (wider, more menu columns on large
  screens), read by the storefront via a small public settings endpoint.

0.6.0

• Replaced the separate Cart and Checkout pages with a slide-in side-cart
  drawer that has its own 3-step flow (Cart -> Details -> Payment), so
  customers never leave the menu page.
• Added a floating bottom-center bar that appears as soon as something is
  added — shows the item count and running total, tap to open the drawer.
• Menu cards now show an inline quantity stepper once an item is already
  in the cart, instead of just an Add button.

0.5.1

• Fixed “Place order” returning a 500 error: dbDelta only ran on a genuine
  plugin (re)activation, so a site that just had its plugin files replaced
  by a newer zip was left on stale table structure (missing columns like
  orders.access_token), and every order insert silently failed. The schema
  now re-syncs automatically whenever the plugin version changes, the same
  way capabilities already did.
• Order-creation failures now log the underlying SQL error and return a
  more specific message when WP_DEBUG is on, instead of a bare 500.
• Redesigned the customer storefront: Fraunces/Inter typography to match
  the admin, a proper segmented delivery/pickup control, refined food
  cards with monogram thumbnails, veg/spicy/chefs-pick badges, an inline
  quantity stepper once an item is in the cart, and a more considered
  cart/checkout/order-status layout.

0.5.0

• Removed the entire table-booking system: reservations, table floor plan,
  table sections, dine-in ordering, and table-linked QR codes are gone —
  their database tables, REST endpoints, admin pages, capabilities
  (manage_restaurant_reservations, manage_restaurant_tables, manage_kitchen)
  and the Kitchen Staff role are all removed.
• The plugin is now scoped to online ordering only: delivery and pickup,
  with everything else (menu, cart, checkout, pricing engine, payment
  gateways, delivery zones, pickup slots, discounts, customers, analytics,
  settings) unchanged.
• Cash-at-restaurant gateway now applies to pickup only (dine-in removed).

0.4.0

• Removed the duplicate Kitchen wp-admin page — Kitchen is now a tab inside
  the main Restaurant Manager app instead of a second identical page.
• Fixed food items/categories created without an explicit location becoming
  invisible on the storefront (API now treats unassigned items as available
  everywhere; admin Menu pages now tag new items with the selected location).
• Setup wizard now prefills from your saved location on revisit instead of
  showing a blank form, and no longer discards saved data if page creation
  fails partway through.
• Capabilities now resync on every plugin version bump, not just activation,
  so upgrades from an earlier build don’t leave admins missing capabilities.
• Admin navigation moved from a left sidebar to a top bar.
• Storefront menu/category/location requests are now cached in memory for
  60s to avoid refetching the same data on every tab switch.

0.3.0

• Reservations, drag-and-drop Tables floor plan, Delivery Zones + rates,
  Pickup Slots, QR Codes, Customers, Discounts, Analytics, Settings —
  REST APIs and admin UI for all of them.
• Customer storefront: reservation booking page, QR-code ordering
  (auto-fills location/table from the URL), bottom nav.

0.2.0

• Orders, custom cart, checkout, server-side pricing engine, pluggable
  payment gateways (Cash, Cash at restaurant), storefront ordering flow,
  admin Orders page.

0.1.0-phase1

• Initial foundation: database, permissions, REST API base, Locations + Menu API,
  React admin shell, Setup wizard, frontend shortcode stub.