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Skip the queueNot the foodOrder aheadCollect when it's ready

Customers scan, order, and pay from their phone. Vendors serve more people with no extra hardware. Everyone skips the line.

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Burger Boys

Open 4.9 8 min

MainsSidesDrinks

Crispy Chicken Burger

Buttermilk fried, slaw, brioche

R65.00

Hand-Cut Chips

Double-fried, salt & pepper

R58.00

The works burger combo

Double patty, chips & a drink

R79.00

Beef Burger

Double patty, secret sauce

R89.00

Chip Roll

Slap chips, vinegar & salt

R42.00

Chicken Curry

Slow-cooked, fragrant rice

R95.00

2 itemsView cartR123.00

A vendor assembling a fresh bowl in the kitchen

The YesChef cart and checkout on a phone

Ready to collectA73Burger Boys · Night Market

The YesChef app open on a phone, showing street food, pizza, burgers and drinks to order

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Keep in your pocket

You can always order straight from your browser, no download, no account. Or install it from the app stores and it saves your details, keeps your collection code on the lock screen, and gets you reordering from a menu you already like in two taps.

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How it works

No queue, no card machine

Three taps from hungry to handed-over. No waiting in the sun while your food goes cold.

See how it all works

Search the menu

Burger Boys

Open 4.9 8 min

MainsSidesDrinks

Crispy Chicken Burger

Buttermilk fried, slaw, brioche

R65.00

Hand-Cut Chips

Double-fried, salt & pepper

R58.00

The works burger combo

Double patty, chips & a drink

R79.00

Castle Lite Lager Beer Bottle

330ml, ice cold

R45.00

2 itemsView cartR123.00

Ways to order

Find your favourite vendors whichever way suits you

Scan the code on their counter, look them up in Explore, or order in a WhatsApp chat. Take whichever is easiest from where you are standing: it is the same live menu, the same kitchen queue and the same collection code.

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Scan a code

The code in front of you

Stalls, tables, hatches and wristbands each carry their own code. Point your camera at it and the full menu opens in your browser. Nothing to download, works on every phone.

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Explore

See who is trading near you

Explore is our online food court. It shows the stalls and bars open around you right now, what is on their menu today and how long the wait is before you walk over.

Open Explore

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Order in a chat

Message our WhatsApp number and order from the same menu without leaving the conversation. Handy when data is tight or you would rather just type.

Chat on WhatsApp

More than a shortcut

Skipping the queue is just the start

The stalls you order from run their own stamp cards, specials and tabs, and everything you have ever ordered stays in one place.

Stamps that follow your number

Order at your local and the stamps land on their card automatically. No plastic in your wallet, no app to open. When you have earned a free item it is waiting on the menu next time.

Specials worth showing up for

Traders run their own happy hours, combo deals and coupon codes. Whatever you qualify for comes off before you pay, so the price on the screen is the price you are charged.

Open a tab, close it when you leave

Sitting down or working a bar? Staff can run a tab for your table and add rounds as you go, then settle it in one payment with every item listed.

Your usual, in two taps

Every order you have placed stays in one place, so getting the same thing from the same stall next weekend takes seconds instead of a fresh hunt through the menu.

Checkout you can trust

Payments run through established South African providers. Your card details never touch the stall's phone.

Collection you can prove

Your order carries its own code. Staff scan it off your phone at the counter, so your food goes to you and nobody else.

YesChef Coffee Cart

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Two more coffees and your next flat white is on the house.

Where to find us

Wherever you are eating this weekend

Same scan, same three taps, whether you are at a main stage, a Saturday market or the café down the road.

Find places near you

Bartender handing over drinks at a festival bar

Customer paying by phone at a coffee shop counter

Street lined with food stalls and shoppers

Customer collecting a coffee at the counter

Tables set inside a neighbourhood eatery

Festival crowd in front of a lit main stage

Music festivals

Real local menus

Made by hand
Served hot

Burgers under the pass light, chops and skewers on the fire, a cold one handed over the bar. The country’s best informal stalls, all in one feed. Order from whichever queue you’d normally be stuck in.

A trader handing a drink across the counter at a market hall

A cold beer handed over the bar at a festival

Customer collecting an order at the counter

Friends eating at the tables outside a food truck

Chops and marinated cuts over the coals on a braai grid

Two cooks working the hatch of a lit food stall at night

A fried chicken burger handed over in a takeaway box outside a food truck

Live orders

2 cooking

M274:53

1 × Crispy Chicken Burger

1 × Coke

No tomato
Extra napkins

Ready

K582:08

2 × The works burger combo

1 × no onion
Both well done

Mark ready

A730:07

1 × Crispy Chicken Burger

1 × Hand-Cut Chips

Extra chilli
Chips crispy

Live orders

M274:53

1 × Crispy Chicken Burger · 1 × Coke

Ready

K582:08

2 × The works burger combo

Mark ready

A730:07

1 × Crispy Chicken Burger · 1 × Hand-Cut Chips

New order · A73

For vendors

Run a busier business

Take orders on the phone in your apron pocket while you focus on the grill. A shorter line is worth money: people who would have walked past a queue stop and order instead. Live by lunchtime, with a full kitchen, stock, and reporting suite waiting when you grow.

Orders the second they pay

Paid orders land on your screen instantly. Accept with a tap and start prepping. No paper tickets.

No extra hardware

Runs on the phone or tablet you already own. Keep your card machine for walk-ups.

R0 setup, R0 monthly

No subscription, no onboarding fee, no lock-in. The per-order fee is the customer's - you keep your sales.

Loyalty and specials built in

Run a stamp card, coupon codes and happy-hour specials from the same console. No second app, no printed cards.

Start taking orders How it works for vendors

Vendor playbooks

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Growth

Start a loyalty programme that pays for itself

Playbook

Run a market food court without the gate bottleneck

Operations

Selling out without disappointing anyone

YesChef vendor console dashboard - live revenue, sales over the day, top sellers, payments by method and sales by channel

Festivals & markets

Running an event?Put the whole food court on one link

Every stall and bar on one branded page. Visitors order from their phone and skip the queue, your traders sell more, and you drop one link on your posters, tickets and socials.

See it for organisers

Someone ordering from a vendor menu on their phone

Straight answers

Ordering, paying and collecting, explained in plain language.

Here are the questions we get asked most.

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Got a question?

No. Point your camera at the code on the counter, the table or your wristband and the full menu opens in your browser. There is a YesChef app for iPhone and Android if you order often, but it is never required to order or to pay.

Explore is our online food court. It lists the vendors and bars trading around you right now, what is on their menu today, what has sold out and how long the wait is before you walk over. If you are already standing in front of a vendor, scan its code instead and land straight on the menu.

A flat R8 is added when you order and pay through your phone. It is not a percentage of your order and not a cut of your tip, so a big round costs the same to place as a coffee. Order at the counter and pay in person and there is nothing extra to pay.

Tap to pay by card with Apple Pay or Google Pay, or scan to pay from your banking app. Visa, Mastercard, SnapScan and Zapper are all accepted. Payments run through established South African providers, so your card details never touch the vendor's phone.

The vendor accepts your order before you pay anything. If they cannot take it, or nobody gets to it in time, the order simply ends there and no money is taken. You only ever pay for food somebody has already agreed to cook.

We message you on WhatsApp the moment it is up, at no extra cost, and your order page updates live while you wait. Prefer an SMS? A small surcharge covers it. In the app it arrives as a push notification.

Every order carries its own short code. Show it at the counter and staff scan it off your phone, so your food goes to you and nobody else. No queue, no shouting a name over a crowd.

Talk to the vendor first, they can see your order on their screen. If a vendor cannot fulfil an order you have already paid for, they cancel it and the money goes back to the card you paid with. Anything they cannot sort out, our support team can.

No. A mobile number is enough to place an order and collect it. Signing in keeps every order you have placed in one place for reordering, collects the loyalty stamps vendors hand out against your number, and saves your favourite spots.

Vendors run their own specials, coupons and stamp cards. Whatever you qualify for comes off before you pay, so the price on the screen is the price you are charged, and stamps land against your number from your very first order. A full card is a free item from that vendor.