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Can great customer service turn your customers to investors?

When his fear of failure vanished with one examination, a spark of entrepreneurship was ignited.

This South Delhi boy’s story of an engineering degree,  love for finance, days of doing odd jobs to survive, and culminating into a successful investment banker is one for the movies. The young man however has been experimenting with the business since his early days.

Ankit Mehrotra is a University Of Essex alumni with a degree in Engineering and is a CFA by qualification. He’s the co-founder of Dineout, one of India’s largest Dining out and Restaurant Tech platforms operating across the B2C and B2B domain processing more than 100M diners and $800 worth of transactions across its network of 50,000 partner restaurants in 20 cities. 

Ankit talked about being a young professional during the 2008 recession, conceptualizing Dineout, starting out, acquisitions, and creating an ecosystem for the food industry.

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Some of the things he shared :-

• Taking an idea from concept to business

• Common mistakes that start-ups may make

• Maintaining the vision of your business

• Understanding your niche

• Creating new avenues within your industry

Additional readings:-

1. Ankit Mehrotra of Dineout shares his acquisition strategies for growth and scale

2. How Dineout is bringing back a sense of normalcy post-pandemic as more people eat out

3. Screenage: Dineout’s Ankit Mehrotra talks about digital transformation of restaurants

4. Dineout’s 8-year journey from table reservation to becoming the largest restaurant payments platform

5. Swiggy Acquires Restaurant Tech Platform Dineout

You may be interested in these other stories in the Food Tech Space:

1. Nitin Saluja shares his journey of building Chaayos , the tea-cafe chain that shook a well-established market where coffee giants like CCD and Barista were entrenched.

2. Rashmi Daga shares her journey of building India’s leading fresh food brand Fresh Menu.

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