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Startup Food Pre-ordering App Zeppery Shuts Down

Zeppery is a food pre-ordering app that lets its users to pre-order food from restaurants and food outlets. The new way of ordering food!

Founded hardly 6 months ago by Delhi-based startup Inweone Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Zeppery is a food pre-ordering app that allows you to order food beforehand from restaurants and food outlets in order to avoid long waiting time. Sadly, Zeppery discontinues its services since it doesn’t suit the Indian market and bears high customer retention cost. Zeppery was a replica of Tapingo, a US based startup. Utkarsh Srivastava, Lalit Vijay and Vaibhav Agarwal were the Co-founders of this app.

Talking about the features of this app, you can browse the menus of the nearby associated restaurants and outlets. With this, you can decide your order and place it on the app without waiting in long parcel queue. Once your order is ready, you will get notification on the app. Zeppery charges a fixed percentage commission on every order. It had plans to generate additional revenue through advertising and selling data analytics report to its tied-up restaurant clients.

Zeppery had partnered with a few food outlets like Haldiram’s, Bikanervala and Moti Mahal. In 2015, the company had raised an angel funding of $77,000 from Suyash Sharma. The aim of Zeppery’s founders was to make a simple and cost-effective food delivery model in India.

It has been noticed that online food businesses are either downsizing or calling it off. Few examples are TinyOwl, iTiffin and PepperTap.

Takeaways:

  • Zeppery discontinues its services since it doesn’t suit the Indian market and bears high customer retention cost.
  • In 2015, the company had raised an angel funding of $77,000 from Suyash Sharma.
  • The aim of Zeppery’s founders was to make a simple and cost-effective food delivery model in India.
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