Description
DineKit turns WordPress into a complete, commission-free restaurant platform — menus, online ordering, table bookings and card payments — with nothing to pay per cover, per order or per month. You bring your own Stripe account and keep 100% of every sale.
Menus & allergens
- Menu builder — menus (Lunch, Dinner, Drinks…), sections and dishes with photos, badges and multiple prices; six templates; drag-and-drop ordering with autosave.
- UK-14 allergens built in — the 14 regulated allergens pre-loaded with icons, tooltips and a printable matrix (Natasha’s Law friendly), plus your own dietary labels.
- QR table cards and A4 posters that open your live menu on a phone, and Menu / MenuItem / LocalBusiness schema.org output for SEO.
- Opening hours with holiday overrides and a live «open now» status.
Online ordering
- Takeaway, collection and delivery ordering with a diner-facing menu, dish customizations (removable ingredients, choose-your-options with prices) and printable kitchen/bar tickets.
- Contactless QR «order at the table» so diners order from their phone.
Bookings & events
- Commission-free table bookings — a drag-and-drop floor plan with joinable tables, a public booking form (block +
[dinekit_booking]shortcode) with live availability, waitlist and covers-per-hour pacing, deposits, and a booking diary with email notifications and printable slips. - Set-menu events with per-guest pre-orders via a share link — guests choose their courses and flag allergens; the kitchen gets a consolidated prep sheet.
Payments, guests & staff
- Card payments with your own Stripe keys (encrypted at rest) — booking deposits and order payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay. You keep 100%.
- Guest CRM — repeat-visit history with the allergies diners have told you about, carried across every visit.
- Staff logins with a role-to-permission matrix and an activity/audit log, plus review-request emails to win diners back.
No WooCommerce required and no page builder needed. The menu, allergens and QR codes work with no external accounts; card payments use your own Stripe account (see External Services below). Works with any theme, on any host.
Built by Web Level Up, a UK web agency that builds commercial WordPress software.
External services
DineKit’s optional payments feature (booking deposits and online order payments) uses Stripe to take card payments. Stripe is contacted only after you enable it and enter your own Stripe API keys under DineKit Integrations, and only on requests that involve a payment:
- When a diner pays, DineKit asks Stripe to create a payment by sending the amount, currency, your site URL and the related booking/order reference to Stripe’s API (https://api.stripe.com).
- When you connect Stripe or set up its webhook, DineKit calls Stripe to validate your keys and register payment notifications.
- On pages where a payment can be made, Stripe’s official Stripe.js library is loaded from https://js.stripe.com so card details are entered directly with Stripe and never reach your server (PCI SAQ-A).
If you do not enable payments, DineKit makes no external requests. Stripe is a third-party service; by using it you agree to Stripe’s terms and privacy policy:
- Terms: https://stripe.com/legal
- Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy
Development
DineKit is open source (GPLv2+). The complete human-readable source — including the React admin application and the build tooling used to generate the bundled dist/main.js — is publicly available and maintained at:
https://github.com/nikutx/dinekit
To build the admin app from source: npm install then npm run build (Vite). See the repository README for the full development setup.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 3 blocks.
- DineKit Opening Hours Show your opening hours with a live open/closed status.
- DineKit Booking Form Let diners book a table from your site — commission-free.
- DineKit Menu Display a restaurant menu with prices, allergens and dietary labels.
FAQ
Does DineKit need WooCommerce?
No. DineKit has zero dependencies.
Is it really free?
Yes — everything listed above is free. No feature-gating of allergen icons, schema or QR codes.
Does it work with my theme?
Yes. Menu output is self-contained with its own scoped styles, and works on both block and classic themes.
Add the DineKit Menu block (or the [dinekit_menu] shortcode) to any page. You can also print a QR code for your tables that opens the menu on a phone.
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Contributors & Developers
“DineKit” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.1.0
- Commission-free online ordering — takeaway, collection and delivery, with a diner-facing menu, dish customizations, and printable kitchen/bar tickets.
- Contactless QR «order at the table».
- Commission-free table bookings: drag-and-drop floor plan with joinable tables, a public booking form (block + [dinekit_booking] shortcode) with live availability, waitlist, covers-per-hour pacing and deposits.
- Booking diary with statuses, email notifications, and printable reservation slips.
- Set-menu events with per-guest pre-orders via a share link — guests choose their courses and flag allergens; the kitchen gets a consolidated prep sheet you can print.
- Card payments with your own Stripe keys (encrypted at rest) — booking deposits and order payments, Apple Pay and Google Pay. You keep 100%.
- Guest CRM: repeat diners with the allergies they’ve told you about, carried across every visit.
- Staff logins with a role-to-permission matrix and an activity/audit log; review-request emails to win diners back.
- Dynamic dish customizations (removable ingredients + choose-your-options with prices), six menu templates and colour theming.
1.0.0
- First public release.
- Menu builder with menus, sections and items — photos, badges and multiple prices per item, drag-and-drop ordering, inline editing with autosave.
- UK-14 regulated allergens pre-loaded with icons, tooltips and a printable allergen matrix (Natasha’s Law friendly).
- Dietary labels (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, halal, spicy — and your own).
- DineKit Menu block and [dinekit_menu] shortcode with three layouts (list, card grid, chalkboard) and 1–4 column options.
- Design & Preview screen to choose a style and copy the shortcode.
- Print-ready QR table cards and A4 posters that open your menu on a phone.
- Opening hours with holiday overrides and a live open/closed status.
- Menu, MenuItem and LocalBusiness schema.org output for SEO.
- Works with block and classic themes. No dependencies.