The ORDR Blog
Product updates, infrastructure deep-dives, and hospitality-technology research from the team behind ORDR.
In April 2026 we finished moving ORDR from orange-cloud Cloudflare back to a traditional CDN-less AWS setup. Here is why a restaurant POS cares about the intermittent Spain / La Liga IP blocks, what we did, and what we gave up.
Carlos Butler 
Chromecast with Google TV is discontinued. We have spent the year looking at what replaces it for restaurant order displays — Fire TV, Onn, Vega OS, Apple TV — and here is where we landed.
Carlos Butler 
Tap to Pay on iPhone has quietly become a real option for UK restaurants and bars. Here is what is different, what is the same as a traditional terminal, and why you still probably want a proper card reader on your main counter.
Carlos Butler Phone-friendly staff ordering, a configurable end-of-day cut-off for reports, and product categories surfaced across downloadable reports. Three quality-of-life features bundled into one update.
Francesco Boffa Payment terminals now work across any number of devices and networks, and our pre-payment flow has had a months-long overhaul based on thousands of real orders.
Carlos Butler Card machines. PQDs. Payment terminals. Whatever you call them, they are the lifeline of hospitality. We wanted one that was fast, reconciled to a bill automatically, and flexible enough for the chaos of a busy service.
Carlos Butler 
Translating a menu by hand is tedious. From today, getting started — or adding a new language — is a single click. Under the hood, it is machine translation, so verify with a native speaker before going live.
Francesco Boffa 
The same translation engine that helps customers read your menu can also print kitchen tickets in the language your chefs speak. Fewer mistakes on the line, happier staff.
Francesco Boffa 
Maintain a single menu across every language your customers speak. Prices, photos, and descriptions stay in sync automatically, and ORDR shows each customer the right menu based on their device language.
Francesco Boffa