Zomato – the food ordering app – announced that it has acquired the Bengaluru-based startup – TongueStun. TongueStun is considered the leader in corporate cafeteria sector and has got footprints in six cities – Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, and Gurgaon/Noida. The company has got a large base of clientele which includes IBM, Ernst & Young, Genpact, Mindtree, Accenture, Sony, 3M, and Deloitte. According to Zomato, this acquisition will help it in providing its users to order food for pickup from their cafeterias by using the Zomato app.

 

The start-up TongueStun was started in the year 2012 and presently caters to a wide range of companies numbering a total 1,500 and serves 1,50,000 meals per day to employees of the MNC companies through 1,000-plus food partners. As per Zomato’s claim, the company had been in talks with TongueStun from a period.

Zomato says that all of the customers of TongueStun’s does not opt to leave the service and the company’s business is expected to go usually. “Everything will run as smoothly as it previously did. With more execution muscle, we are only going to provide TongueStun’s users more delight and better food choices. Our increased speed of growth will benefit our food partners – caterers and restaurants tremendously. The team will stay intact as 100 percent of the team at TongueStun is being retained in their original roles,” the company says in a blog post. The company also said that TongueStun startup founder Manjunath Ramakrishnan is now a part of the Zomato’s core team.

Earlier, another food delivery app Runnr was acquired by Zomato turning the latter’s employees into one family with Zomato. Previously Runnr was known as Roadrunnr and use to serve B2B for hyperlocal deliveries. And before to that, Roadrunnr itself acquired food delivery service TinyOwl and changed to Runnr through which could order food and track delivery of the same which is very much like the service of Swiggy, which is called the Zomato’s biggest competition in the Indian market as of now. The acquisition made by TongueStun could help Zomato an edge over Swiggy.

Zomato is, in fact, a restaurant search and discovery service and was started in the year 2008 by Indian entrepreneurs Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. As of now, the company has a presence in about 23 countries. It helps a researcher with information and reviews about restaurants which include images of menus where the restaurant which does not have a website for the service.

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