Order food online in Bangalore - HungryBangalore.com
HungryBangalore.com lets you order food online in Bangalore. The website is part of the hungryzone group but online ordering is currenly available only in Bangalore. You can however find reviews and contact details of restaurents in many other cities like Bhopal, Delhi, Goa etc. I live in Bangalore and I tried the service finally yesterday and was quite impressed with the number of restaurants they have (even in not so restaurant-ish localities in bangalore like mine).
Ordering process begins by choosing your locality from the list on the main page and then you can select cuisine and/or restaurant. You can see the average cost of the meal per person and decide if its in the budget that you are looking for. I liked the fact that the menu can be looked up both in vegetarian and non veg categories as well as by food type (Soup, Starters, Rice etc). Thats how its arranged in a typical menu at restaurant but its just much easier to lookup here as once you get used to their layout, every restaurant’s menu has the same layout. :)
I live in Banashankari and ordered from Bawarchi. My food arrived pretty quickly. I think in less than 30 mins. I got an email after ordering and one more after my order was placed at the restaurant. I got a call from the restaurant before delivery to get the exact location.
All in all I found the service quite compelling and very useful. Some benefits I felt are
- You don’t need to hunt around the house for menu
- No wasting money on calls while the menu is read out to you when you finally can’t find it :)
- I think there is some kind of user loyalty program in form of points collected on every order
- I did not try it but if you want to speak and order, you can do that too. No need to order online
- You pay when you get your food, so no credit card transaction required.
- The service is free. Nothing extra is added to your bill
I think the usability of the final ordering process can be improved a bit but that should not stop you from using the website. If you are enthusiastic, you can also review the restaurant you just ordered from.
I generally don’t review too many websites. The last I reviewed was flipkart because thats another service I found to be very compelling. I hope you will give hungrybangalore a try and let me know your experience with it.
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Comments
Hi Prateek,
I’m the founder of another online food ordering service in bangalore - http://www.webdhaba.com. I’ll love to invite you to try out online ordering on webdhaba.com (Ofcourse webdhaba is still growing the list of restaurants and don’t have much for your part of town just yet but you should see some choice pretty soon too. )
Now how why would anyone want to try online food order on webdhaba? whats really different? well, more than the rudimentary features (yes it’s all there you also get waiter reward points too ) webdhaba has added many premium features that make ordering & reordering easier…For example, webdhaba.com offers :
* 1st Food ordering Portal of offer “full Order history drill down” for each customer…Why ? well after 72% people told us they simple like to reorder items 7times out of 10. We just listened !
* 1st Online ordering food Portal with “Simple click to reorder any past order” ! - well if reordering was so needed - we decided to implement simple reordering - and it clicked !
* The date time of delivery can be set by customer and is based on restaurant timings. yes - we were not going to have ” sorry restaurant cannot deliver at this hour” messages for a guy who is hungry!
* Only food delivery takeaway Portal oferring a “My Waiter Page” for each customer - Just made things easier .
* 1st to launch “Save a Cart” - you setup your items and confirm the cart later .
yes webdhaba.com is new, and thats one reason why the webdhaba team is looking for comments and candid well meaning feedback !
Well i think reordering, order points and saving a cart are not unique features… as I am a regular user of hungrybangalore/hungryzone and have been seeing these feature since almost a year.
Hungrybangalore is a matured product with large number of restaurants and the list of restaurants is still growing. The best part is their reviews and ratings of restaurants which helps in discovering new restaurants and cuisines.
Well not taking any thing away from webdhaba, the site looks neat and I for sure will give it a try pretty soon.
Thanks Prateek for trying out hungrybangalore and reviewing the site. am sure this would give us good mileage.
Looking forward to you coming back to order again :-)