🍔 Food Delivery & QSR · State Machine
Food Order Status State Machine
Every status of a food delivery order, from placed to delivered, including restaurant rejection, no rider and customer cancellation.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Restaurant must accept within a few minutes or the order auto-cancels
- Rider search can time out and be retried
- Cancellation rules change once the food is being prepared
Prompt used
State machine for a food order: Placed, Paid, Sent to Restaurant, Accepted (or Rejected / Auto-cancelled if no response in 3 minutes, both refunded), Preparing, Rider Assigned (or Rider Search Timeout, retried), Ready for Pickup, Picked Up, Delivered. Customer cancellation is free before Preparing and charged after.
Mermaid code
stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Placed Placed --> Paid Paid --> SentToRestaurant SentToRestaurant --> Accepted SentToRestaurant --> Rejected: Restaurant declines SentToRestaurant --> AutoCancelled: No response in 3 min Accepted --> Preparing Accepted --> CancelledFree: Customer cancels Preparing --> RiderAssigned Preparing --> RiderSearchTimeout RiderSearchTimeout --> RiderAssigned: Retry Preparing --> CancelledCharged: Customer cancels RiderAssigned --> ReadyForPickup ReadyForPickup --> PickedUp PickedUp --> Delivered Rejected --> Refunded AutoCancelled --> Refunded CancelledFree --> Refunded Delivered --> [*] Refunded --> [*] CancelledCharged --> [*]
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