I built an open-source alternative to Toast and Square for restaurant management

The Problem If you run a small restaurant, your options for online ordering and management are: SaaS platforms like Toast, Square, or ChowNow — $100-300+/month with vendor lock-in Old open-source projects — mostly PHP/Laravel, hard to extend, dated UIs Build it yourself — months of work before you can take a single order I wanted a fourth option: a modern, self-hosted, open-source platform that a developer could deploy in an afternoon. Introducing KitchenAsty KitchenAsty is an MIT-licensed restaurant ordering, reservation, and management system built as a TypeScript monorepo. What it covers For customers: Browse the menu, add to cart, and place orders for delivery or pickup Schedule orders for later or order ASAP Pay with Stripe or cash on delivery Track orders in real-time Book table reservations Leave reviews React Native mobile app For restaurant staff: Manage menus with categories, options, allergens, and images Kitchen display — a live Kanban board showing incoming orders Process