The post-club rush is its own animal. Thirty orders in nine minutes, half of them walk-ins, the grill is screaming and one driver hasn't come back. Andromeda holds the shape of it.
Most ordering platforms shut their eyes at midnight. Yours doesn't — and neither should your software. Late-night needs different rules, not the daytime ones with extra coffee.
One screen shows what's live right now: how many orders are cooking, how many drivers are out, how long the kitchen quote is. Push a button to pause a channel. Push another to bump quoted times. No staff crawling through settings at 2.15am.
When the surge breaks, auto-close kicks in — aggregators stop accepting orders, the website flips to "closed", the till cashes off safely. Nobody locked out, nothing orphaned.
Pause Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat or your own website individually. 15 minutes, 30, an hour. Set a reopen time and forget it.
Different delivery fee after midnight. Different driver rate at weekends. Pay sheet separates day, late, and fuel. No manual maths at 4am.
Grill hitting capacity? Push quoted times out by 10 minutes across every channel in one tap. Customers see a realistic ETA, not a promise you can't keep.
Different zones after 1am — tighter radius, pavement traffic patterns, estate-level exclusions if you need them. Set once, auto-activates nightly.
At the time you set, the system stops taking new orders, waits for the last ticket to cook, then cashes off and prints the shift summary. Staff can clean down.
See the shop from your pillow. Live orders, staff, ratings, takings. Pause everything remotely if a fryer goes down at 3am.
| Capability | Uber Eats / Deliveroo | Generic ordering site | Andromeda |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pause individual channels, live | Clunky | ✗ | ✓ One-tap |
| After-midnight driver rates | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Configurable |
| Bump quoted time across all channels | Per-app | ✗ | ✓ Global |
| Night-only delivery zones | ✗ | Manual | ✓ Time-scheduled |
| Safe auto-close with cash-off | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Built-in |
| Cost per order | ~30% commission | Varies | ✓ Low flat monthly fee |
"Friday and Saturday used to run us into the ground because we couldn't stop the orders coming in. Being able to pause Uber for twenty minutes while we catch up — and actually having our driver pay-out make sense in the morning — changed the whole shift."
Yes — cleanly. Toggle off at 2.20am, set it to reopen at 2.50, and the listing goes offline with a proper "closed" state. No ghost orders landing while you catch up.
Live throttling on online intake, grill-aware pacing on the kitchen display, one-tap quoted-time bumps, and live capacity warnings. The surge still happens — you just don't get 80 tickets in six minutes with no plan for them.
Yes. Set a daytime rate, a late-night rate (from the cut-over time you pick — say 11pm), and optional weekend loading. The end-of-shift sheet splits them out for payroll. Fuel allowance separate.
Most late-night operators do — a tighter radius, exclusions for specific estates, or only opening certain zones on Fri/Sat. Zones are time-scheduled; they swap over automatically.
The system accepts the order if the kitchen can honour it, then stops accepting anything new. It waits for the last ticket to cook and go out, cashes off, and prints the shift summary. Staff aren't locked out — they're handed a clean close.
Yes. Mission Control — our owner app — shows live orders, takings, staff on shift, star ratings. You can pause every channel remotely if something's gone sideways.
We'll demo the pause controls, the driver pay-out, and the safe auto-close on a real late-night setup.
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