Extensions
Next Restaurant puts ordering and restaurant operations in Joomla
Next Restaurant is a Joomla extension for running restaurant ordering, bookings and back-of-house operations from one installation.
Restaurants need more than a web menu: they may have to take orders, reserve tables, route tickets to the kitchen, reconcile payments and track stock. Joomla core can present a menu using articles, categories, custom fields, media and menu items, while user accounts and basic contact forms cover limited interaction. A template override can change how that content looks, but it does not create a POS, booking engine or kitchen workflow. Sites needing those functions normally assemble several extensions or use separate restaurant software. According to the listing, Next Restaurant goes beyond Joomla's content and presentation tools with shared records for online, QR, phone and POS orders, reservations, kitchen screens, delivery, inventory and payment reporting.
It is aimed at restaurants operating online ordering and physical service, especially teams that want one system across a venue, kitchen, counter and delivery operation. The listing also describes multi-location controls, staff permissions and tablet-oriented terminals. A site that only publishes opening hours and a static menu, or a restaurant already committed to a separate POS and ordering stack, may have no practical reason to install it.
Before installing, check the commercial terms: the listing does not say whether Next Restaurant is free or paid, although it claims the software is GPL and open source. The developer is NextSoftware Team; the directory shows five other extensions from the developer and zero reviews for this listing. The page claims Joomla 4, 5 and 6 support and PHP 8.1+, but leaves questions about pricing, payment-terminal and hardware integrations, migration from existing systems, hosting requirements, documentation, support and update policy.
Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.