Ability to have multiple food providers and order multiple things in one order

[vincevd1]

What?

As the candidate board we would like to incorporate healthy food at activities next year. To do this we will need to have another food provider, since the professor does not offer healthy food. For this we would like to have another tab where you can order this food.

It would be nice if this is also incorporated in the app since most people use the app to order food.

Why?

It is a point in the upcoming policy plan, and it would be nice to start working on it already.

How?

It would be nice to see a tab like here, where 'committees' would be 'professor' for example, and 'societies' would be 'iWok&Go' or whatever other provider we will use. I think you get the point

[DeD1rk]

I heard about this and was wondering when we'd hear from you guys. Sweet to see it happen before the actual board year! ;) (iykyk)

Status
Essentially, this is mostly a duplicate of #3501 and #1654. The backend has been almost-ready for years. We've started thinking about the API and UI for it a little bit lately, but no physical progress yet.
The API changes we still need are not too special, but the frontends are a BIG project.

UX idea
You suggest a multi-tab layout in the frontend. We have not designed the UI yet, but the multi-location thing does not quite work the way you propose in the backend. However, some separation of ordering locations could be achieved by simply opening multiple sales shifts.

Policy
I understand the idea behind your policy. However, be careful to not just ask for a technical solution for a problem and hope it works out. I'm very happy to see board people on github (and you even had a UI idea :) ), but making something part of a policy plan is a commitment to actual involvement. You're well on your way having appeared on github (still wondering when someone reaches out about promocie :p ), but it's a big issue that can easily take another year, especially considering technicie's current limited capacity.
If it's a policy spearpoint, I suggest to actually get involved, e.g. meeting us (multiple times) or even making a PR (there are probably lots of small things to do that can get the ball rolling).

You (all) are very welcome to come by any wednesday evening.