Al Forno to Offer Tin Can Kitchen Menu Thanks to Dual Order System – a First for Wales?

A local food delivery service, set on becoming Newport’s first outdoor street food market, has recently launched an innovative dual order system, a possible first for the country.

Al Forno, a pizza delivery service based in Rogerstone, has teamed up with Tin Can Kitchen to launch an innovative dual order system, enabling customers to order from both businesses at the same time.

Customers can now hop seamlessly from one website to the other, order food from different menus and make one single payment.

The owners of both brands believe it’s a first for Wales. 

Co-owner Barry Fallon commented:

“We’ve all been in situations, where, for example, you want a burger from one place and your partner, or a friend, wants a pizza from another. With the dual order system we’ve designed, you can do just that.  When Al Forno first opened, our customers thought this was a given, but Tin Can Kitchen and Al Forno are completely different businesses, with separate ordering systems. Customers were having to make separate orders in the hope we’d pick them up and deliver them at the same time.”

Designed to provide customers with more freedom and choice, the dual order system has wider implications for the owners’ plans of an outdoor street food market, offering takeaway food from multiple in-house brands and independent street food vendors.

Barry continues:

“To provide this level of flexibility is remarkable and it bodes well for our future plans. We’ve already submitted planning for the site and are putting plans in place.  The dual order system is pivotal to all of this – in future it will be re-developed, allowing people to not only make delivery and table reservations, but also order food from us on site, in real-time, via a mobile app.  We’re extremely excited – as far as we’re aware, no other business is capable of providing such freedom and flexibility.”

Al Forno has recently expanded its menu, offering a range of premium subs, a new meatball pizza and a limited-edition cheeseburger calzone; all core line pizzas can also be made into calzone for no extra charge. 

Following in the footsteps of Tin Can Kitchen, the business is also open as a bakery and sandwich bar during the daytime. 

Co-owner Jordan Phillips commented:

“With summer on the horizon, we’re busy growing the daytime operation, which offers a range of classic sandwich fillings, subs, cakes, and light bites, such as focaccia pizza slices. The dual order system also allows people to order breakfast and lunch items from both places at the same time – great if you work in an office, for example, and the people you work with all want something different.”

“We’re also very happy with the subs and the calzone. They’re completely different to what’s out there at the moment.  That said, we found ourselves having to explain to people what a calzone is, which was quite funny – it’s essentially a folded pizza in the shape of a pasty. Delicious.” 

Visit: alforno.tincankitchen.co.uk and www.tincankitchen.co.uk