India’s Top Hoteliers, Food Critics
and restaurateurs come together to launch EazyDiner, India’s first integrated
restaurant platform. Co-founded by Sue Ritz and Vir Sanghvi, EazyDiner will
offer an exclusive dining concierge service to improve the restaurant and
eating out experience.
Vir Sanghvi, India's best-known food
writer and TV personality launched EazyDiner, India’s first restaurant
reservation platform that offers expert reviews, recommendations, deals with
every reservation, insiders’ tips and an exclusive dining concierge service.
Launch of the Orange Revolution - EazyDiner
Deepak.I.Shahdadpuri, MD - DSG
Consumer Partners, and Gulpreet Kohli, Ex MD –Chrys Capital have led the first
round of funding.
The platform was launched in
collaboration with India’s top hoteliers and restaurateurs, including Amit
Burman (VC- Dabur and Founder Chairman LBF) Zorawar Kalra ( MD, Massive Restaurants)
, Vikram Oberoi (CEO-JMD , The Oberoi Group), Anjan Chatterjee (CEO, Specialty
restaurants) and Dilip Puri (MD-India & Reg.VP South Asia, Starwood Hotels
& Resorts) , Dinesh Nair (Co-Chairman & MD, The Leela Palaces
Hotels& Resorts), Sourish Bhattachrya ( Delhi Gourmet Club) amongst others.
Featuring over 8000 restaurants, 200
bars, and 600 critic reviews, EazyDiner is a marketplace for restaurants and a
one stop shop for researching and booking over 300 selected restaurants.
The platform also helps a diner get
great deals and discounts with every reservation, in addition to earning
loyalty points for every table booking.The partner restaurants are some of the
best restaurants in the country ranging from the top five star hotels to award
winning stand-alone restaurants.
It also provides daily high-quality
editorial content on the latest trends in food and dining.
“The restaurant revolution is here.
More restaurants are opening than ever before and Indians are eating out more
frequently. EazyDiner is a way of helping diners makes the right choices and
putting restaurants in touch with the modern Indian diner. It doesn't just make
reserving tables easy but it also offers curated reviews by some of India's top
critics. The site contains the most up-to-date information on dining trends and
our concierges are on hand to guide diners through the restaurant world. Plus,
every booking through EazyDiner comes with an EazyDeal which could save diners
anything from 10% to 50% of the total bill. This is the only restaurant
site with authority and influence,” said Vir Sanghvi, Co-Founder, EazyDiner.
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Mr. Deepak Shahdadpuri, Managing
Director, DSG Consumer Partners commented, “The F&B sector in India has
been relatively slow to adopt new technologies, in tandem with the change in
eating habits, lifestyle trends and consumer behavior. EazyDiner is a
platform that serves the needs of both the restaurants and diners. The
company’s vision is to reduce as much friction as possible in the dining out
experience from discovery, search and reservations. EazyDiner brings together
everything a diner is looking for: curated content, top critic reviews, real
time online reservations, a concierge service and a dining loyalty program.
Diners love being able to get real time confirmation when booking with
restaurant partners. Restaurants can now use EazyDiner’s reach and marketing to
attract more guests to dine with them. EazyDiner is led by a team of very
experienced hospitality professionals who understand the needs and pain points
of the industry and are now leveraging technology to address them.”
At present, EazyDiner services are
exclusively available to the users in the Delhi NCR region. And, the mobile app
is already available on the Google Play platform (Android) and will be
available on the iOS platform in May.
EazyDiner also provides customized
experience to its patrons through an expert concierge service, which allows
diners to call one of its specially trained concierges @ 786 100 4444, who not
only provide recommendations but also assist with bookings at even hard-to-get-into
restaurants.
EazyDiner will launch in Mumbai on
the 1st of July with complete listing details of over 7500 restaurants in
addition to 500 partner restaurants with online reservations and exclusive
deals.
And will roll out operations in
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai within this year.
Team TWCI with Team EazyDiner at the Launch Ceremony
Coverage By : Team TWCI- The Writers Collective of India