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On-demand food delivery for Africa
Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.
Chowdeck is an on-demand delivery platform for Africa that delivers food, groceries, medicines, and essentials from restaurants, pharmacies, and local markets to customers. It positions itself as a quick way to get a variety of local items delivered to the doorstep with rider networks and live order updates.
Customers browse or search for items (restaurants, groceries, pharmacy items, markets) and place an order through the Chowdeck app or platform. The service aggregates offerings from partners (restaurants, stores, pharmacies) and dispatches deliveries via a network of riders, providing live order updates and 24/7 support for customers and vendors. The onboarding emphasizes quick setup for vendors and a seamless delivery flow from order placement to unpacking the delivery.
Who it’s for: Restaurants, grocery stores, pharmacies, and local markets seeking to reach customers with on-demand delivery in Africa.
Hiring/traction mentions (Join our network to reach new customers, join the team), promotions, and app download prompts indicate active user acquisition and vendor onboarding.
Femi is the co-founder and CEO of Chowdeck. He was a former Principal Engineer at Paystack, an African payments company acquired by Stripe in 2020. When he started at Paystack in 2017 (as the fifth engineer and the first Core Payments Engineer), he was responsible for building the core payment infrastructure for multiple payment methods. As a Principal Engineer, he was in charge of designing multiple core systems like the circuit breaker for routing over 100k transactions daily.
Olumide is co-founder and CTO of Chowdeck. Olumide has spent the better part of the last five years working in African fintech companies across various individual contributor and leadership roles such as Technical Lead, Engineering Manager, and, more recently, Principal Engineer at Paystack. His contributions span the entire technical stack from backend to frontend and beyond.
Lanre is the co-founder and COO of Chowdeck. He is a former Engineering Lead at Crown Interactive where he led a team of software engineers in developing and managing business support solutions for a leading power utility company in Nigeria.
Meet Chowdeck, the app that makes it easy for people in Africa to order food from their favourite restaurants
Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service in Lagos, Nigeria, founded to help restaurants deliver meals to customers quickly. It reports fast delivery times, growing order volume and restaurant partnerships, with plans to expand across Africa.
From the original launch (Aug 2022) — may be outdated.
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