Let us tell you a little bit more about us...
Who We Are:
Eatstudent was launched in 2006 by two first-year students at Nottingham University (over a cold 'breakfast pizza'). Our idea was to have an easily accessible archive of menus from the best local takeaway, specifically for fellow students. The business grew steadily over the next few years, and by 2008 thousands of students were using eatstudent to order their food (either that or our mums were constantly clicking on the site to make us feel better). In 2009, to keep up with a rapidly changing industry, we have brought in a new director (and youth team coach) and implemented a custom-made, high-tech online ordering system. We have also grown to Brunel, Leeds, Leeds Met, Manchester and Manchester Met universities over the summer of 2009 and we launched in September 2009 - exciting times! So if you're a student at any of these unis, and fancy some haute cuisine (or a kebab), give us a try!
What We Do:
We find the best takeaways for students in each university town and put them online. It is then quicker and easier for students to locate their best local restaurants and order from them. We also negotiate exclusive discounts with each restaurant, so it's also cheaper for students to order through us. Also, we're really good at thumb wars.
Why we have the best online ordering system ever:
When we first developed our online ordering system we decided to investigate some of our competitors’ methods of transferring customer orders to the specific restaurant. We found that in most cases, the order was transferred to a call centre before it went through to the restaurant, or it was sent to the takeaway by fax. We felt that both these methods were exceptionally unreliable and outdated.
Instead, we decided to design a far more reliable and customised method of transferring your order to the restaurant. EVERY ORDER THAT COMES THROUGH OUR WEBSITE IS DIGITALLY SENT TO THE RESTAURANT STRAIGHT AWAY. This means no more miss-communications and no more engaged signals. We also realise that no matter how good a technology is, it can never be 100% reliable (although we’ve got it pretty damn close). That’s why we have real life humans monitoring every single order that passes through our website. They see when you place it, when it is sent through to the restaurant and when the chef receives it and starts cooking. In fact, this team of monitors is contactable at all times (even at 3 in the morning) to make sure you get your food and deal with any issues that may emerge. FACT – If you order a double pepperoni explosion, sweet and sour curry with extra chips, you will be eating that double pepperoni, sweet and sour curry with extra chips!
Meet the Directors:
There's a whole load of people who help to run eatstudent, but for now let us introduce you to the company directors who toil night and day to bring takeaway food to the masses. Josh Magidson founded eatstudent way back in 2006 and Ed Green joined the team late in 2008. It's always nice to put a face to the name, so Josh and Ed took the time to do some artwork.
Josh...by Josh____________Josh...by Ed
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