Flavourz Restaurant & Cafe — Custom Offline-First POS Platform

Project overview

A full-stack, multi-branch restaurant POS built from scratch for a Pakistani café — one codebase running as a web admin, a Windows desktop terminal that works with no internet, and Android tablets on the floor, all kept in sync between the restaurant's own server and the cloud. The desktop build embeds FrankenPHP + Laravel + SQLite inside one Tauri installer, so each terminal is a fully self-sufficient server when it needs to be. A bidirectional, event-sourced sync engine keeps the on-prem server and the cloud continuously in agreement — no end-of-day exports, no "sync now" button. Cash settlement runs in under a second on the busiest till; kitchen tickets reach the right thermal printer over a queued WebSocket print agent that can't silently lose or duplicate a ticket. Built around the real operational reality of a Pakistani café: load-shedding, flaky connectivity, cash-heavy operations, multiple counters firing at once, regulars running a tab, and dinner-rush readability.

Results

The challenge

A Pakistani café POS has to survive conditions most commercial POS products quietly assume away: power cuts and network drops, several counters ringing at once, cash-heavy operations, kitchen-rush readability, regulars on credit, and multiple branches that have to roll up centrally. Imported SaaS POS products assume perfect internet, card-first customers, and a single till — none of which holds. Malik's brief was practical: keep the counter moving no matter what, give the kitchen unambiguous tickets, track regulars who run a tab, and hand him a trustworthy picture of cash and credit at close of every shift.

What I built

Key features