🍽️ Web-Based CMS for Digital Restaurant Menus

A modern two-application platform that helps restaurant owners manage digital menus while offering customers a fast, interactive menu experience.

📌 Overview

This project consists of two web applications - an Admin Application for restaurant owners and a Menu Application for customers - powered by a central ASP.NET Core REST API and cloud services.

🌐 Live Demo

Deployed site: https://restaurant-menu-30.web.app

🚀 Features

Admin Application (CSR - Angular)

Login/Signup with Google or email & password (Firebase Auth)
2-step onboarding: restaurant info → preferences
Home dashboard:
- Edit restaurant name & URL
- Visit analytics (QR vs URL)
- AI-powered insights (GPT-4o-mini)
- Download QR codes (PNG/SVG)
Menu manager
- Upload/export via Excel
- Add/edit/remove menu items and categories (images via Firebase Storage)
- Reorder items & categories
- Separate Drinks and Food views with tables (sorting, filtering, search)
- Add restaurant info (Wi-Fi, contact, etc.)
Style editor: live menu preview, change theme color & font
Analytics: Most Popular Items, Interactions by Hour, Most Popular Categories
Reviews viewer (table of customer reviews)

Menu Application (SSR - Angular)

Server-Side Rendering for instant first-paint content
Home screen with restaurant details
Menu screen - pick Food or Drinks
Add items to favorites for later reference
AI Chat - ask about dishes & get recommendations (GPT-4o-mini)
Customers can submit reviews

🛠️ Technology Stack

Backend: ASP.NET Core 8 (REST API), Semantic Kernel + OpenAI connector for AI features, EF Core with Npgsql to NeonDB
Frontend: Angular 19 (CSR for Admin; SSR for Menu), Angular Material, Chart.js
Cloud: Firebase Auth & File Storage, NeonDB (PostgreSQL), OpenAI (GPT-4o-mini)