Pizza parlour launches Spain’s first virtual in-house order app

A restaurant on Spain’s Mediterranean coast is pioneering a dining experience allowing customers to avoid most face-to-face contact with staff and minimise Covid-19 risk.

Customers at Funky Pizza, in

Palafrugell on the Costa Brava, can browse the menu, order and pay via the “Funky Pay” mobile app — the first time a purpose-designed app has been integrated into a restaurant’s ordering system in Spain.

A waiter does bring the order to the table.

“Through this system we have tried to keep physical distance with our clients, which is what people are looking for during Covid,” restaurant owner Carlos

Manich said.

“The application is very userfriendly ... and you can also track your order and see when it is in the kitchen or when it will be arriving,” customer Claudia Medina said. —