City Pantry (acquired by Just Eat)

Rapidly-growing food delivery B2B platform

Building one of UK’s fastest-growing foodtechs

City Pantry was a food delivery platform focused on business clients and working with over 600 restaurants and caterers in London and across the UK, feeding more than 30,000 people at 600+ companies every week.
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Łukasz Szramko
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Delivery Leader

Challenge

CityPantry wanted to stay ahead of their local competitors and speed up their product development.

Their in-house resources were insufficient to achieve that, so our main goal was to extend their team with additional frontend and backend developers and successfully integrate both dev teams.

Just Eat acquires CityPantry

Just Eat — a British online food ordering and delivery platform that serves as an intermediary between takeaway restaurants and customers, generating over $800 mln revenue in 2018, acquired City Pantry in 2019 and merged with Takeaway.com in 2020.

Platform structure / architecture

City Pantry was a full-stack platform that consisted of web-based delivery and tracking portal for customers as well as a complete set of back-office tools for proper business management and payments processing

Delivered services

Angular frontend
development
PHP backend
development
Extended team services
Quality
assurance

We helped build a multifunctional food delivery platform for B2B sector

City Pantry was an end-to-end online food delivery platform that workedwith tens of thousads weekly orders and hundreds takeways partners, which weremanaged through their custom internal back-office system

B2B food delivery platform

Full-featured food tech app with powerful back-office tools

City Pantry’s system provides both a rich set of features for end-customers as well as all the required tools for business administration, marketing and support
Complete food delivery application:
Multiple offices delivery
Admin dashboards
Multiple restaurants ordering
Recurrent orders
Advanced business budgeting tool
Delivery tracking
Food preferences and allergies

RST Software  /  City Pantry team culture

We started working with CityPantry in 2018 and in 3 years created a solid team that seamlessly integrated with their in-house one.
Team integration
To ensure smooth cooperation between the in-house and remote teams, our developers regularly visited the City Pantry office and vice versa.
Hackathons
CityPantry regularly organized hackathons that took place in a separately rented office, the main goal of which was to develop an improvement or a new feature for the CP application.
Product improvements
Our developers have won the title of ‘The Best New Feature’ during one of the hackathons, which was later implemented in the production-ready product.

We were happy to use these technologies

Frontend
Angular
Backend
PHP
Symfony
Cloud
Google cloud
AWS S3
Database
MongoDB Atlas
Tools
Docker
Hubspot
Twilio
Braintree
Stripe
RST Software maintained consistent and daily communication, efficiently sourcing and managing of their tech team. Their work was high quality and met expectations, fitting well into the overall project.
David Stefan
Head of Engineering, CityPantry