An interview with Ahmad Ad and Ibrahim Bin Mohiuddin, founders of HungryNaki, one of Forward Fooding’s top 500 Food Tech startups.

Ahmad Ad and Ibrahim Bin Mohiuddin, founders of HungryNaki

It’s time to put a face to the name…

We asked our FoodTech 500 winners to give us a bit of insight into how they started out as a company and their thoughts on the role of technology in Food innovation. Meet Ahmad and Ibrahim from HungryNaki, Bangladesh’s first food delivery service. Let’s see what they had to say.

So tell us a little bit more about you! Where did the idea for your FoodTech company come from?

Ahmad and Ibrahim: Back in 2013 we were thinking to start retail e-commerce in Bangladesh. As all of us had a job back then, and we used to meet after work every day for ideation and planning. In those meetings, we used to send our driver off to buy some food from local restaurants and bring it back to us. Often, it would take a huge amount of time to get our food. So one day we thought: why don’t we start a food delivery business in this country? We did some research online and found that this was already a billion dollars industry worldwide.

This is how we formed our HungryNaki team. We wanted to fight modern-day food problems with technology. The first challenge was to build our own logistic system. That’s because restaurants in Bangladesh didn’t do delivery like restaurants in the USA or European countries. So we became one of the very first food delivery services in Bangladesh. We started operations in 2013 with a delivery-integrated platform for food delivery.

How is tech central to your business?

Ahmad and Ibrahim: Our service is fully dependent on tech. We have Andriod, iOS and web versions of our platform so that consumers can easily order food. Our operational back-end is also fully dependent on tech. We have an app for food partners and delivery riders. Our system manages the whole thing automatically to maintain the fastest delivery route and efficient use of our delivery capacity. Order disbursement, customer query management, restaurant maintenance and restaurant consulting also depends on our tech team.

Why do you think it’s important to see the food industry embrace tech?

Ahmad and Ibrahim: To reduce food waste, to stop food adulteration, for proper food resource distribution, to increase healthier food production the food industry must embrace tech.

 

 

Want to know more? Check out HungryNaki’s full profile here.

Congratulations again to HungryNaki for ranking 3rd in the “Food Delivery” category of the Foodtech 500 list.

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