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Zomato
Type
Private
Foundation date
July 2008
Headquarters
New Delhi, NCT, India
No. of locations
35 cities
Area served
11 countries
Founder(s)
Deepinder Goyal[1]
CEO
Deepinder Goyal
Key people
Pankaj Chaddah (COO)
Gunjan Patidar (CTO)
Owner
Info Edge (India) Ltd. (50.1%)
Slogan(s)
For the love of food
Website
zomato.com (formerly foodiebay.com until November 2010)
Alexa rank
1,926 (October 2013)[2]
Type of site
Online restaurant guide
Advertising
Yes
Registration
Optional
Users
62.5 million
Available in
English,Hindi,Turkish, Portuguese, Indonesian
Launched
July 2008
Current status
Online
Zomato is an online restaurant guide providing information on home delivery, dine-out, cafés and nightlife in cities of India, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia,New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. The site has an Alexa rank of 1,926 in the world and 205 in India as of October 2013.[3]
Contents
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1 History
2 Funding
3 Website setup
3.1 Restaurant Guide
3.2 Blog
3.3 Events (discontinued)
4 Coverage
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
The website Foodiebay.com was started by Deepinder Goyal, a post-graduate from IIT Delhi. The journey to the present-day Zomato started as a small exercise to help his colleagues negotiate huge stacks of menu cards with ease. It was in 2008 when he was working with Bain and Company, a management consulting firm, when he put all menu cards in his office on the internet.[4] Deepinder’s juniors from college, Pankaj Chaddah and Gunjan Patidar (who are now Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer respectively), joined him in building the database. Foodiebay officially started in July 2008 with a list of 1,200 restaurants in the Delhi NCR region. This database expanded to 2,000 restaurants by end 2008. Within the next six months, Kolkata and Mumbai were