"It is a social network just like Facebook but exclusively for food lovers where they can connect with other fellow foodies and also their favourite eateries," said Mainak Sarkar, co-founder and CEO, Eatable.
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Kharagpur alumni have recently developed a social network for food lovers
called Eatable.
The social network-cum-utility platform has been created to connect
with fellow foodies, spread the word about an eatery and discover exciting
places to grab a bite.
The platform not only helps food lovers and tourists find the best
places to eat at a particular location, it also aids businesses to widen their
reach, as reported by IANS.
Meet the developers behind this social
network:
- Mainak Sarkar from the electrical engineering
department (IIT Kharagpur)
- Pritam Khan from the computer science
department (IIT Kharagpur)
- Sumit Agarwal from the engineering department
(IIT Kharagpur)
- Meanwhile, the fourth co-founder is Abhijit
Ghosh, a civil engineering final year student from IIEST Shibpur.
Here's what Mainak Sarkar, co-founder and
CEO, Eatable said:
"It is a social network just like Facebook but exclusively for
food lovers where they can connect with other fellow foodies and also their
favourite eateries," Mainak Sarkar, co-founder and CEO, Eatable, told
IANS. "The idea came from problems faced by travellers at new or unknown
places about the availability of choice of food, locations and quality,"
Sarkar added.
Features of the social
network-cum-utility platform:
- This social network-cum-utility platform for
foodies anywhere in India is accessible both on mobile and desktop
- Users can connect with fellow foodies and
share their experiences, recommend their favourite eating places to their
friends and followers, and help add a place to the network's
database. "A person can add a place, they had food at and
liked, to the platform via the 'Discovery' post option which adds that
place to our database. How this helps is by letting people know about the
places that are not usually available on any other platform," Sarkar
added
- "It allows eateries (restaurants, cafes,
bars, pubs and others) from any location with internet access to join the
platform and connect with their customers and keep them engaged and
updated about all their activities in real time," Sarkar said.
- Also. users can follow and recommend the
places they visited and liked.
Option to edit and post content easily:
Moreover, eateries can edit and post content easily by themselves
unlike other platforms where they need to mail these platforms about offers and
updates and it takes a lot of time before it is reflected on those platforms.
"When these eateries post updates, their followers are notified
about these updates in real time. This allows eateries to have a much higher
reach and since Eatable is exclusive to food, chances of content getting lost
is very low," Sarkar added.
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