Restaurant Management System

A full-featured restaurant management system built with Laravel, supporting table reservations, menu management, and admin workflows.

📖 Description

This project is a restaurant management platform designed to streamline operations for small-to-medium restaurants. Key features include:

• Table reservations with time/date selection and status tracking (e.g., "pending," "confirmed").
• Menu management (categories, items, and pricing).
• Admin dashboard for staff to manage reservations, tables, and menus.
• User authentication (login, registration, password reset).

Built 3 years ago, this project uses stable versions of Laravel and PHP 7.x. While not on the latest stack, it remains functional and can be modernized incrementally (see Roadmap).

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Backend: PHP 7.x, Laravel 5.x
• Frontend: Blade templates, Tailwind CSS (via tailwind.config.js), JavaScript
• Database: MySQL (via Laravel migrations)
• Tools: Composer, Artisan CLI

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• PHP 7.x, MySQL, Composer

Installation

git clone https://github.com/your/restaurant-system.git  
cd restaurant-system  
composer install  
cp .env.example .env  
php artisan key:generate  

Configure .env with your database credentials, then run:

php artisan migrate --seed  
php artisan serve  

Access the app at http://localhost:8000. Admin credentials are seeded by default (check database/seeders/Admin.php).

📂 Project Structure

restaurant/  
├── app/                # Core Laravel app  
│   ├── Http/           # Controllers (Admin, Auth, Frontend)  
│   ├── Models/         # Eloquent models (Reservation, Menu, Table)  
│   └── ...  
├── database/           # Migrations and seeders  
├── resources/views/    # Blade templates  
│   ├── admin/          # Admin dashboard views  
│   ├── auth/           # Auth pages (login, register)  
│   └── ...  
├── routes/             # Web and API routes  
└── public/             # Compiled assets (CSS/JS)  

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Given the project’s age, focus on:

1. Modernization: Upgrading to Laravel 8+/PHP 8+.
2. Testing: Adding PHPUnit tests in tests/Feature.
3. UI/UX: Improving Blade templates with modern Tailwind.

Steps:

git checkout -b feature/your-feature  
php artisan test  # Run tests before submitting PRs  

📜 License

MIT License. See LICENSE. Permissive and ideal for community-driven improvements.

🌟 Roadmap

• Upgrade to Laravel 8+/PHP 8+.
• Add API endpoints (e.g., for mobile apps).
• Dockerize for easier setup.