Retail Food Giant Achieves Epic Growth by Modernizing Legacy App with Micro Frontends

Overview_

Partnering with Euvic, our client revolutionized the restaurant industry’s online ordering practices with a scalable, efficient mobile food ordering application and B2B admin panel by:

• Moving from a monolith to a microservice-based architecture.
• Enhancing operational efficiency for some of the largest retail restaurant groups in the world, such as Burger King, Arby’s, Subway, Popeyes, and Sbarro.
• Enabling the client to onboard new restaurants, expand their customer base, and provide greater value to end-users.

Additionally, Euvic’s solution architecture expertise:

• Improved the client’s engineering practices.
• Elevated code quality and development standards.
• Solidified the client’s position in the retail technology sector.

Background_

This client offers an online hub and mobile food ordering platform for the global restaurant industry, used by some of the largest retail restaurant groups in the world. The company enables customers to order from popular restaurant chains like Burger King, Arby’s, Subway, Popeyes, and Sbarro using their mobile devices. The food ordering platform makes it easy for customers to invite friends, browse menus, place orders, make payments, coordinate delivery, and more. 

Unlike most mobile food ordering platforms, the custom-built platform allows customers to combine multiple products thanks to an integrated order management system and a product management system (among others). The retail platform comprises several integrated systems including a mobile application, web application, and third-party applications to manage the underlying restaurant ordering infrastructure.  

Solution_ 

Shoulder-to-shoulder Partnership with Euvic

The legacy application was built using monolithic-based architecture. After analyzing the solution, Euvic architects proposed a strategy that would include  micro frontends and microservices. This strategy allows the company to deploy separate parts of the application independently so that, for example, the order management module would not be impacted by changes to the invoice feature. While they are gaining in popularity, micro frontends are less common than monolith applications. The company needed to augment their inhouse expertise with a team experienced with these technologies.

They chose Euvic as its development partner because of the team’s deep experience engineering similar solutions combined with the respected reputation of Polish technology talent. It was clear that Euvic’s team was prepared to work shoulder-to-shoulder with their in-house engineers, and share accountability for outcomes and app performance.

Euvic kicked off the modernization project by conducting in-depth needs analysis, followed by design, development, testing, and implementation, all working in close partnership with their inhouse engineers. The project was delivered using Scrum in two-week sprints, which allowed for speed and adaptability, with an iterative delivery of functionalities.

The new and improved admin panel features large forms, tables, dashboards, and implements fine-grained attribute-based access control. It supports translations and internationalization, offering a seamless user experience across different regions. Features of the updated admin panel include:  

• A unified food order processing system that optimizes the work of restaurants and employees responsible for supporting their customer. 

• A single source of truth web platform and mobile app data aimed at end-users 

• Hierarchical organizational structure that allows the client to authorize users according to their role, with access only to necessary functionalities. 

• The ability to create marketing campaigns with insight into sales effectiveness and accounting data.  

• Rigorous security measures were embedded in the project strategy, including authentication and authorization services designed in .NET.  

I love frontend and new technologies, so I was deeply involved in the architecture. I’m most excited about collaborating with retail clients to set the vision for architecture, standards, processes, and code optimization.

Euvic designed a seamless front-end experience where users enter the website or shell application, sign-in, and order through three distinct applications. The infrastructure integrates these distinct services with a frictionless experience for the customer.  

The Dream Team_

Euvic provided between 6 and 9 front-end developers, QA, Devops, and a scrum master, along with 3 backend developers. 

As the project progressed, Euvic worked with the company’s leadership to fine-tune the team composition and provide them with exactly the resources it needed.  

The Euvic and client teams worked shoulder-to-shoulder, sharing ideas, best practices, and innovations.The Euvic team included:  

• Bartosz – Scrum Master –  >10 years 

• Michał – Technical Team Leader – >7 years 

• Dariusz – Frontend Developer – ~12 years  

• Wojciech – Frontend Developer – ~5 years 

• Daria – Frontend Developer – ~6 years 

• Marcin – Frontend Developer – ~5 years 

• Monika – QA Engineer – 3 years 

• Bartosz – Backend Developer – ~7 years  

• Martyna – Backend Developer – 3 years 

• Michał – Backend Developer – ~5 years 

• Piotr – DevOps Engineer – 2 years