What is a PWA, and is it good enough for restaurant ordering?
Updated 9 October 2026
A PWA is a website that acts like an app. Customers add it to the home screen and it opens full screen. For most restaurants it is enough, with no app-store download.
- One codebase for any device, per Google's web.dev.
- On iPhone, any website can be added to the Home Screen from Safari's Share menu.
- Push notifications: iOS 16.4 added Web Push for web apps on the Home Screen, asked only after a tap.
- A real app is optional for most small restaurants.
Customers order without an app-store install
Your Menuthere ordering website works in any phone browser, with a QR code and link to share, so customers order without downloading an app.
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Sources (2)
- A Progressive Web App is a web app built with modern APIs for app-like, web.dev (Google), published 6 Jan 2020
- iOS and iPadOS 16.4 added Web Push for web apps added to the Home Scre, WebKit (Apple), 16 Feb 2023