FoodMate is a food delivery app for Dera Ismail Khan that I founded and built with Flutter. It has a customer app, a rider app, a restaurant web panel, and an admin panel — four tools that have to work together, because an order touches all of them before the food arrives.

The starting problem was simple: local restaurants took orders by phone, and customers had no easy way to browse menus, track an order, or pay except in cash. The goal was not a fancy app. It was an app that a restaurant owner could run and a customer could use on an ordinary Android phone.

Flutter was the practical choice. One codebase covers Android and iOS, which matters when the team is small and the budget is real.…