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Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa
FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng
FoodCourt is a platform described as a virtual food court offering restaurants and stores for Africa, with a focus on launching in various cities and notifying users when it returns.
FoodCourt presents itself as a virtual food court and stores platform for Africa, offering notifications for city launches and a return to service. The site text emphasizes coming back and waiting for users to be notified when FoodCourt launches in their city, suggesting a launch-focused marketplace/collection of food options accessible through a centralized virtual platform.
Who it’s for: Consumers in Africa seeking convenient access to multiple food options via a virtual food court and interested in being notified about city launches.
pre-launch/hype/coming back; attempting to build user interest with notification sign-ups
Henry is the Co-Founder & CEO of CoKitchen. He is from a very entrepreneurial family and has always had a keen interest for solving problems with technology. Prior to CoKitchen, Henry has been able to accumulate a range of experiences cut across design, marketing, product development/ management & entrepreneurship. In 2019 he co-founded Fashion Map, a quick way for Nigerians to find tailors & fashion designers across the country, dubbed as the “Uber for Tailors” by The Economist.
Paul is the Co-Founder & CTO of CoKitchen. He has a strong engineering background and has always been passionate about technology. Paul is a full-stack engineer with vast experience in back end, web, mobile development, AI, machine learning & DevOps. Prior to CoKitchen he was on the founding tech team of Prospa (YC W21), a digital bank for small businesses across Africa. As a personal project, built “for food only” an AI Vision app that identifies African food items using image classification.
Good food, snacks, liquor & essentials delivered in a single order!
CoKitchen launches FoodCourt, a mobile app that lets users in Africa place a single order from a curated mix of virtual restaurant brands and convenience stores, including food, snacks, and liquor, with multi-brand fulfillment and delivery via a central hub and last-mile partners.
From the original launch (Jul 2022) — may be outdated.
Formerly “CoKitchen” · why startups rename →
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