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# Dinemarket

A restaurant supplies marketplace connecting kitchens with distributors

![Dinemarket — Marketplace Development interface](/__l5e/assets-v1/77e9c674-5650-4dfc-86b6-f0d0dd57b2c9/dine-market.png)

Dinemarket is a B2B marketplace where restaurants order from the local distributors already driving past their door. The food existed. The trucks existed. The ordering was phone calls, screenshots and a whiteboard — so that's what we replaced.

## What it involved

Marketplace development B2B commerce Catalog & pricing Ops tooling Mobile-first 

sides of the market

2 sides of the market 

SKUs to normalise

1000s SKUs to normalise 

to place a repeat order

<60s to place a repeat order 

fax machines involved

0 fax machines involved 

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## How it went

1.  1 Supply first 
    
    A marketplace with no shelves is a search engine for disappointment. We onboarded distributors first, absorbing their spreadsheets, unit quirks and negotiated prices before a single restaurant signed up.
    
2.  2 Reorder, not browse 
    
    Kitchens don't shop, they restock. The whole interface bends around the repeat order: last week's cart, one screen, thumb-sized targets, ordering done between services.
    
3.  3 Trust the boring parts 
    
    Cut-off times, substitutions, credits, delivery windows. Nobody demos this stuff, and it is exactly what makes a buyer come back next Tuesday.
    

> “The friction was never the food. It was the twelve phone calls before the food.”
> 
> Dinemarket, project notes

## Small things worth knowing

-   One distributor sold the same olive oil under four different unit names.
-   Peak ordering happens late at night, after service — so the app was designed dark-kitchen friendly.
-   The first paying order was placed from a walk-in fridge.

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## Questions answers

### Why start with suppliers instead of restaurants? 

Buyers judge a marketplace in ten seconds by whether their usual items are there. Supply depth first, demand second.

### What made ordering fast enough for a working kitchen? 

Repeat-order defaults, a single-screen cart, and pricing that already reflects each buyer's negotiated terms.

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