1 of 2 canteens serving right now
Order campus food ahead,
skip the queue
Aditya University · Surampalem
FoodieHub is the ordering system for the canteens at Aditya University, Surampalem. Order between lectures, collect with a token, and pay at the counter exactly as you do today.
- No service or convenience fee
- No commission from canteens
- No online payment, ever
- Prices set by the canteen
- 16
- Dishes listed
- 2
- Canteens
- 1
- Serving now
01 · The problem
The break is short. The queue is not.
Everybody on campus is free at the same time, so everybody arrives at the counter at the same time. The kitchen can cook far more food than it can take orders for — the bottleneck is the counter, not the stove.
Ordering ahead moves the decision off the counter and spreads the kitchen's work across the morning instead of fifteen frantic minutes.
Worth doing the arithmetic
- 12 mina realistic queue at peak
- × 2meals on a normal campus day
- × 5days a week
- ≈ 2 hrsevery week, spent standing in line
Your numbers will differ, and that is the point — multiply your own queue by your own week.
02 · The flow
How it works
Four steps for you, and what happens on the kitchen side of each one.
- 01
Find something to eat
Search every canteen at once, or filter by category, price, rating and pure-veg. Sold-out dishes are hidden, so what you see is what exists.
In the kitchen
Owners toggle availability from their phone the moment a tray empties.
- 02
Build the order
Add items, adjust quantities, apply an offer, and leave notes — less spicy, pack the chutney separately, no onion.
In the kitchen
Notes and dietary flags sit on the order card, not buried in a detail screen.
- 03
Choose when to collect
Now, or scheduled up to a week ahead. Pin it to the lunch bell and the kitchen paces its prep around your slot.
In the kitchen
The queue sorts oldest first, so nobody is skipped for ordering quietly.
- 04
Collect with a token
You get a six-character code and a QR. Status moves from placed to confirmed to cooking to ready, with a notification at each step.
In the kitchen
Staff scan the QR or type the code, see the bill, and enter cash received for automatic change.
03 · Features
What the app does today
No roadmap items and no coming-soon. Everything listed here is built and working.
Ordering
- Search every canteen's menu from one box
- Filter by category, price, rating, pure-veg and open-now
- Veg and non-veg marks on every dish
- Cart splits automatically across two canteens
- Suggested add-ons at checkout
- Special instructions and dietary notes per order
After you order
- Live status, pushed as the kitchen changes it
- Pickup token as a code and a scannable QR
- Share your token straight to WhatsApp
- Cancel while still pending or confirmed
- Printable and downloadable bill
- Rate the order and add photos once collected
Money and habits
- Offers applied automatically when they win
- Loyalty points per canteen, bronze to platinum
- One-tap reorder of your last order
- Save a cart as a named usual
- Favourites for dishes and canteens
- Lifetime spend and order count on your profile
Your account
- Email or Google sign-in
- Allergies and dietary preferences saved once
- Warnings when an order clashes with them
- Light, dark and system themes
- Installs to your home screen as an app
- Shows your saved token even offline
04 · Compared
Compared with the alternatives
Time spent waiting
- Queuing
- The whole break
- Delivery apps
- 30–45 minutes
- FoodieHub
- Walk up and collect
Extra fees
- Queuing
- None
- Delivery apps
- Delivery, platform, surge
- FoodieHub
- None
Pay online
- Queuing
- No
- Delivery apps
- Required
- FoodieHub
- No — at the counter
Know what is sold out
- Queuing
- Only at the front
- Delivery apps
- Sometimes
- FoodieHub
- Before you order
Order between lectures
- Queuing
- No
- Delivery apps
- Yes
- FoodieHub
- Yes
Money goes to
- Queuing
- The canteen
- Delivery apps
- Split with the platform
- FoodieHub
- The canteen
05 · Live today
On the menu today
Read live from campus kitchens each time this page loads.
15% offat Central Canteen
4.8Filter Coffee
₹25
Central Canteen
4.7Midnight Chai
₹15
Hostel Night Canteen
4.7Masala Dosa
₹60
Central Canteen
4.6Chicken Biryani
₹160
Central Canteen
4.6South Combo
₹110
Central Canteen
4.5North Thali
₹150
Central Canteen
4.5Paneer Butter Masala
₹120
Central Canteen
4.5Masala Chai
₹15
Central Canteen
06 · For canteens
For canteens
Orders arrive before the crowd does, so prep starts earlier and the counter stops being the bottleneck. You keep taking payment exactly as you do now, and FoodieHub takes no commission.
A live queue
Orders appear the second they are placed, oldest first, on any phone or tablet. One tap moves an order to the next state.
Token scanning
Scan the student's QR or type the six-character code to pull up the order, take payment and calculate change.
Sales analytics
Revenue, average ticket, best sellers and busiest hours over 7, 14 or 30 days. Export orders or item sales to CSV.
Menu control
Add dishes with photos, set per-day opening hours, and select several items to hide or delete at once.
Offers
Percentage or flat discounts, with minimum spend and a cap. Pause and resume without deleting.
Reviews
Reply publicly to feedback. Filter to the ones unanswered or rated two stars and below.
An administrator approves new canteens before students see them.
Already on FoodieHub
Open nowCentral Canteen
4.6Campus favourite for dosas, thalis and filter coffee.
ClosedHostel Night Canteen
4.1Late-night maggi, sandwiches and chai.
07 · Pricing
Free on both sides
There is no student fee and no canteen commission. FoodieHub is run for the campus, so the only money that moves is the money that already moved — from a student to a canteen, at a counter.
- No service or convenience fee
- No commission from canteens
- No online payment, ever
- Prices set by the canteen
Your data
- We store
- Your name, email, phone number, your orders, and any allergies you choose to save. Your phone number reaches a canteen only while you have an active order with them.
- We never store
- Card details, UPI IDs or bank information. There is nothing to store, because payment happens at the counter.
- Who sees what
- Access rules are enforced in the database itself, not only in the app. A canteen sees its own orders; you see yours.
08 · Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Does it cost more than ordering at the counter?
- No. You pay exactly what is on the menu board. There is no service fee, no convenience fee and no delivery charge, because there is no delivery.
- Do I have to pay online?
- No. You pay the canteen when you collect, the same way you already do. FoodieHub does not process payments and never holds your money.
- What if I do not turn up?
- Nothing is charged, because nothing was paid. It does waste food, so canteens can see your order history.
- Can I cancel an order?
- Yes, while it is still pending or confirmed. Once it moves to preparing the ingredients are committed, so cancellation closes. Call the canteen instead.
- How far ahead can I schedule?
- Up to a week. Pick a date and time, or use the quick options for one, two or three hours from now.
- What if the canteen closes while I am ordering?
- A closed canteen still shows its menu, but checkout is disabled. Individual dishes disappear as soon as they are marked unavailable.
- Which canteens are on it?
- The ones listed above. Any canteen on campus can register and publish a menu, and an administrator approves it before students see it.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. It runs in the browser. You can add it to your home screen if you want it to open like an app.
Your next lunch, without the queue
Free to use, and you pay the canteen exactly what you would have paid at the counter.