Know About Just Eat

JUST EAT India is India’s first online food ordering, takeaway food and table booking portal. This online platform is headquartered in Bangalore, with branches in Delhi and Mumbai. As of September 2012, JUST EAT India has over 2500 restaurants^[2] with about 2200 in the three metros alone. It also extends its services to certain smaller cities.

The parent company of JUST EAT India, known as Just-Eat Group Holdings Limited ^[3] is headquartered in theUK. It has a presence in several countries apart from UK and India – France, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland,Sweden, Belgium, Canada, Norway, Spain, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil. JUST EAT India is a registered company under Achindra Online Marketing Pvt Ltd.

JUST EAT India was founded on 26th July, 2006 as HungryBangalore.^[5] Ritesh Dwivedy,^[6] the founder of HungryBangalore and its present-day CEO^[7] is an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur. A closed cafeteria during a late night working session in office compelled him to search for good restaurants online, but to no avail; such information just wasn’t available online. This was how the idea of setting up an online food ordering portal came into being.

August 2008 witnessed HungryBangalore being renamed as HungryZone.^[8] The objective of widening the reach of the company to several Indian cities was realised now by the first round of funding raised from the Indian Angel Network.^[9]

A significant development occurred on 17th January, 2011 when HungryZone announced a partnership with Just-Eat^[10] which was the leading online portal for ordering food takeaways in the UK. Just-Eat bought a 60 percent stake^[11] in HungryZone, which was thereafter rechristened as JUST EAT India.

JUST EAT India can be used for ordering food online, booking a table at a particular restaurant or reading and writing reviews for restaurants. Customers can also pay online and get their food home delivered. A recent initiative taken by JUST EAT India is the launch of its mobile apps^[17] on various platforms, in order to simplify the process of ordering food online.