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FastBiteFast food delivery · San Francisco, US

Food delivery app for FastBite: meals in minutes in downtown San Francisco

FastBite delivered meals from partner restaurants across downtown San Francisco in minutes. Perpetio built the iOS app: from browsing menus and ordering in a few taps to paying by card, tracking the runner and tipping.

  • iOS
  • iOS development
  • Stripe payments
  • Delivery tracking
  • 4 months
FastBite express menu
Express delivery from order to door
15 min
meals from partner restaurants
$8
acquired by Square, folded into Caviar
2015
months of work
4
In short

FastBite promised lunch in minutes in downtown San Francisco. Perpetio built the native iOS app on the client’s designs, turning a menu of ready meals from partner restaurants into an order placed in a few taps and a delivery tracked to the door.

FastBite

Fast food delivery in downtown San Francisco, with meals from partner restaurants. Merged into Caviar in 2015.

US
Client location
4 months
Duration
Dedicated team
Model
iOS
Platforms
What we did

The challenge: lunch in minutes, ordered in seconds

FastBite’s promise only works if ordering is as fast as the delivery. The app had to show what can arrive right now, take an order and a card payment in a few taps, and keep the customer informed until the runner is outside.

  • Show what can be delivered right now
  • Order and pay in a few taps
  • Live arrival time and runner details
  • Bring new customers through referrals

The solution: from menu to door in one flow

  • Standard and Express

    Two menus: everything partner restaurants can deliver, and an Express menu of meals ready to go out in minutes.

  • Menus by cuisine

    Restaurants and dishes grouped by cuisine, with prices, servings, dietary icons and how many portions are left.

  • Dish details

    Each dish shows its description, dietary info and custom toppings before it goes into the cart.

  • Card payments

    Customers add a card once, type it in or scan it, and are charged only when they place an order.

  • Delivery tracking

    An approximate arrival time, the delivery address and the runner’s name and photo, with a text when the meal is two minutes away.

  • Referrals and tips

    Give $5, get $5 for each friend’s first order, plus ratings and a tip for the runner after delivery.

Order

Lunch in downtown San Francisco, in minutes

Customers see only what can reach their address right now, pick a dish from a partner restaurant and check out in a few taps.

  • Standard and Express menus
  • Meals from partner restaurants
  • Card saved for the next order

$8meals from partner restaurants

FastBite Express menu
Referrals

Give $5, get $5

Every customer has a code to share. Friends get $5 off their first order, and the customer earns free meals as credits.

  • Share your code
  • Invite friends
  • Redeem a code

$5for each friend’s first order

FastBite earn free meals

How the FastBite app works

Order

Pick a meal that can arrive now

Switch between the Standard and Express menus, browse restaurants by cuisine and open a dish to add toppings and choose how many.

  1. 1Choose Standard or Express
  2. 2Pick a restaurant and a dish
  3. 3Add toppings and add to cart
Restaurants list
Restaurant menu
Dish details

Results: two delivery modes in one iOS app

acquired by Square, folded into Caviar
2015
delivery modes: Standard and Express
2
platform: native iOS
1
months of work
4

A native iOS app that put Standard delivery (up to 45 minutes) and Express delivery (about 15 minutes) of $8 meals from partner restaurants into a few taps, with a Give $5, Get $5 referral programme. In 2015 Square acquired FastBite and merged it into Caviar as Caviar Fastbite.

Tech stack behind the FastBite app

A native iOS app in Swift with Stripe card payments, built on designs from the client’s team.

Platforms
iOS
Duration
4 months
Model
Dedicated team
Client location
US

iOS app

Language and IDE
  • Swift
  • Xcode

Payments

Cards and promo codes
  • Stripe

Sign in

Accounts
  • Facebook Login

Maps

Coverage and runner location
  • Core Location / MapKit

Design

By the client’s design team
  • Sketch

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