Foodmandu.com is a website where you can give orders at your favorite restaurants from the web or from a call, and Foodmandu will deliver them to your doorstep.
From the catalog available at the site, you can find restaurants with which Foodmandu has contracts with, and from the menus, also available at the site, you can find what you want to eat. Place your order, give your address and wait for the food to arrive.
“Though the site has been live for only a couple of months, the response has been good,” informs the chief executive of the firm, Manohar Adhikari.
“We’ve tried to keep the site as simple and as user-friendly as possible,” remarks Adhikari about the site itself, “so that anyone can use it easily.”
The charge for the delivery of the food is calculated according to the distance of the customer’s drop point from the restaurant ordered from. If the customer happens to be within two kilometers of the restaurant, no charge will be applied; however, the charge increases according to the distance after that.
The firm itself employs delivery boys; and they travel to and from restaurants and customers. Upon delivery, you have to pay the required amount to the delivery boy, saving you the hassle of online payment.
Adhikari also mentions the mapping system of the business, so that the delivery boys can find where they need to deliver the food. “We’ve taken landmarks as crucial points, so we can direct them where to go from those points inside the city,” he adds.
Targeting the young and corporate sector, the idea of Foodmandu was developed by Adhikari while he was working in the IT field, as he himself was kept busy when he wanted to have food at his favorite restaurants during office hours.
“We have about 25 restaurants in our catalog at the moment, and we hope to increase that number so that our customers can have a huge variety to choose from,” says the CEO.
With more and more Nepalis becoming Internet users, the firm plans to capture the growing market as well as distributing catalogs to homes so that they can also place orders from the phone easily.
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