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Chandrasekhar Venugopal VP – Restaurant Operations Foodpanda Chandrasekhar Venugopal is the Vice President – Restaurant Operations at Foodpanda. At Foodpanda, Venugopal heads restaurant operations which includes all restaurant interactions. His key functions include automation, restaurant compliance, restaurant servicing and inventory management leading...

Mobile and online food ordering marketplace Foodpanda on Tuesday refuted reports in a leading daily, which stated that the company may be up for sale. According to a report in The Economic Times: "The company (Foodpanda) recently mandated Mumbai-based mid-market investment bank...

A pure delivery model is a no-no because value-add is not great. As an investor, I would be inclined to invest my money in a food-tech startup that connects restaurants and consumers, enables discovery and has a rational costing...

The Indian restaurant industry has evolved greatly over the last two decades, across the value chain. New formats have evolved, there is a higher service level and supply chain practices have greatly improved. The fortunes of the restaurant industry - which...

With funding coming down and valuations being slashed, a number of start-ups in the country are struggling to meet their hiring commitments. All have been aggressively recruiting top talent - including big-ticket Silicon valley veterans - with the millions of dollars...

Grofers India Pvt. Ltd, the grocery delivery start-up funded by Softbank Corp. and Tiger Global Management, will lay off 10 per cent of its workforce, even as it revoked job offers to fresh graduates, citing adverse market conditions. On Tuesday,...

In 2014-15, Indian Railways carried 8.4 billion passengers - more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers). India’s thousands of railways stations – in excess of 8,000 at last count – comprise perhaps the...

Online food ordering platform Foodpanda, which was under fire for laying off over 300 employees earlier this year, has implemented a near complete automation of its order flow to become more operationally efficient with lower staff levels, a top...

The Bubble Is Bursting Despite beginning with a bang, Indian food tech startups have been feeling the heat since last year. Many of them have either shut down or have scaled down their operations. Though, initially touted to be worth $50...

TinyOwl, the online food ordering platform has temporarily discontinued its services in all cities except Mumbai from, according to the official blog of the company. Earlier, TinyOwl was operational in cities like Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad,...