Skillet is a restaurant point-of-sale and back-office system for Canadian restaurants. It joins the register, the kitchen screen and the numbers behind every plate, so an owner can see what each dish really makes. We built all of it: the product, the website and the brand.
The brief
Restaurants usually run a register from one company, a kitchen screen from another, and keep their food costs in a spreadsheet. Skillet puts them in one system, priced in Canadian dollars with no per-device fees, for restaurants that want to switch or just add the numbers to the POS they already have.
The product: what we built
- Register. Colour-coded, drag-and-drop tiles, dish search, “Open item”, an options panel beside the order with “Add & repeat”, No / Light / Extra choices and pizza halves. Takeout, dine-in, pickup and delivery-app orders. Cash, card, gift card and house accounts, split bills, tips and open tabs, manager-PIN approvals for voids, comps and discounts, till float, cash drops, end-of-day counts and a register that keeps selling when the internet drops.
- Table service. A floor plan with tables and seats, open tabs, split by seat or item, hold and fire courses, rush tickets and QR table ordering, so guests can order from their seat.
- Kitchen screen. Tickets in columns with timers, build lists for each dish, stations, rush tickets, bump and recall, new-ticket sounds, delivery-app badges and a paid-or-not-paid flag on every ticket. Runs on any tablet or TV with a browser, with printer support.
- Profit per dish. Each dish costed from the ingredients, pack sizes and yields the restaurant actually pays, prep items costed from their own recipes, and recipe versions so past reports keep their own costs. Food-cost alerts, price or portion recommendations, supplier price-spike alerts at 5% or more, supplier invoices and stock counts, and a Monday digest email.
- Online ordering, kiosk and delivery hub. A self-order kiosk, a commission-free online ordering page with its own link and QR code, and Uber Eats, DoorDash and SkipTheDishes orders in one list, with per-app markups rounded to .99.
- Team. A drag-and-drop shift planner, a PIN and photo time clock, timesheets as CSV for payroll, optional tip pooling and sales against labour through the day.
Skillet is sold in three plans: POS for the register and kitchen, Insights for restaurants that keep their current POS and want the numbers, and Complete for everything together.
The website: what we built
- Product pages for the register, table service, kitchen screen, profit, online and delivery and team tools, each with an interface preview.
- Restaurant-type pages for full-service, quick-service, fast-casual, pizzerias, cafés and bakeries, so each visitor sees what matters to them.
- Features and pricing pages with a clear plan comparison.
- Comparison pages against Toast, Square, Lightspeed, TouchBistro, MarginX and MarginEdge, plus a guide to switching.
- Supporting content: help, get started, integrations, apps, hardware, guides, a free food cost calculator, what’s new, security, customer stories, a 60-second tour video, legal and accessibility pages.
- Clear calls to action to start a free trial or book a demo on every page.
Branding
- The Skillet name, identity and tone of voice: plain, direct and focused on the money in a restaurant.
- One visual language across the app, the website and the sales material, so the product and the brand feel like the same company.
One team, the whole business
We built the product, the site and the brand together, so what the software does, what the website says and how the company looks all agree. Visit skillethq.com to see it live.