One common routine that most of us follow with respect to food is to order it online. With the development of technology, people look over a mobile app for every work to be done. From paying online bills to buying grocery products everything being ordered from mobile apps. Just a simple touch in your mobile can get food delivered at home easily.
With a huge number of young professionals in big cities, people can’t find much time to prepare food and also can’t find it feasible to order food from restaurants every day. Considering these difficulties, many people have now shifted towards subscribing to homemade food to be delivered at their residence. Such Online homemade food delivery websites and mobile applications have become popular in metro cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, etc.
Below is the list of some popular start-ups that provides homemade food online via online delivery apps. Most of them operate only in particular area to ensure quality homemade food is delivered to their customers.
1) Homefoodi
Homefoodi is an online food order delivery application dedicated to homemade food lovers in Noida. They only serve freshly prepared homely food prepared by home chefs and has taken up the services to deliver cakes, pizzas, biryani, part orders and catering orders all by home chefs of the nearby locality.
2) Oota Box
Oota Box was started in 2017 as a home-cooked meals delivery service by partnering with home-makers in Bangalore who love to cook & serve. The food is prepared by home chefs in their own houses, they put in all the effort to make the food fresh, hot, healthy & hygienic, and Oota box delivers their efforts to you in a neatly packed meal box. Users have an option to pre-order for dishes of choice or place a request in-case they don’t find what they are looking for.
3) Mothersfood
Mothersfood based in Hyderabad provides healthy homemade food prepared by home-chefs, just like your mom, to cook you a healthy, hygiene, and homemade meal, which can make your tummy happy and make you satisfied well-being. They operate in various cities such as Hyderabad, Delhi , Mumbai , Noida , Greater Noida, Fairdabad, Ghazibad, Pune and Bangalore covering variety of cuisines that one could ever wish for.
4) Fooddoo
Fooddoo is a flagship brand owned by Feastoo Online Services Pvt Ltd. Fooddoo is a mobile app marketplace connecting home-based caterers with customers in their locality for home cooked foods and snacks. It serves prime time lunch, dinner, all day mom’s specials, nature drinks and diet food in Chennai, Coimbatore, Trichy and Erode.
5) Pasto
Pasto is a Bangalore's food delivery stop shop for home cooked food. Pasto food delivery delivers variety in its menu which includes home cooked lunch, home cooked dinner, home cooked wrap, home cooked diet food and homemade & regional variety snacks prepared just for you and delivered at your doorstep. They are specialist in North Indian home cooked meals at super pocket friendly prices.
6) Masala box
Masala Box is all about door delivering home cooked meals and homemade delicacies. Each plate of food served through Masala Box is prepared using fresh, locally sourced produce in a home kitchen with authentic, regional recipes by people with a passion for cooking. Masala Box has been working towards its mission to door deliver food that resonates with memories of home, childhood and of course, moms, since 2014 in Bangalore.
7) Myma
Myma is a Pune based homemade food delivery app that revolves around its mascot “Myma”. It delivers lunch & dinner in absolutely pocket-friendly rates. Our meals are purely home cooked. It's not at all like mess food or canteens. Myma doesn’t cook meals in large quantities, just like our moms her aim is to serve delicious, healthy and freshly cooked food.
8) Watscooking
Watscooking is a platform in Chennai based on sharing economy or collaborative consumption where people offer their skills and expertise to their neighborhood. Watscooking offers three major categories for Homemakers to earn from home.
With the Home Café, the home chefs can sell their home cooked food. The real taste of Indian food can only be enjoyed when it is homemade cooked with freshly grinded masalas. In home boutique homemakers can sell their homemade things like paintings, arts & crafts, gift items and more with the boutique. Finally the home academy - home academy enables homemakers to utilize their skills to offer home based classes like music, dance, yoga,etc.
9) Srimati kitchen
Srimati kitchen is Vizagites favorites Food Delivery App. It was founded in 2020 by a housewife M. Menaka Srinivas started as a small outlet. Today, they serve over 1000+ meals every day across our 40+ kitchens in and around Vizag!
Though these apps are doing well in their cities, none have managed to reach anywhere close to the scale of Swiggy or Zomato.
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