Bengaluru, March 18, 2016: Ahmedabad is a place that is not normally associated with the happening startup hotbeds in India with Tire I cities like Bangalore taking the lead in this regard. However, breaking away from tradition, Smit Nebhwani and Amrish Patel have started Voolsy from Ahmedabad, known for its traditions of commerce, industry and business. Voolsy is an app that aids the restaurant goers inside the restaurant by letting them placing their order, selection of food and payment with a single tap on their phone without the intervention of the restaurant staff.
Smit Nebhwani and Amrish Patel, themselves lovers of good food and eating out observed the current difficulties that the restaurant goers in India face and decided to develop an app that would solve all their problems. Even the name Voolsy has an interesting origin behind it. Voolsy is derived from the termVool, which means more than cool and Smit wants Voolsy to be the coolest mobile application for the restaurant goers.
Existing scenario
As per Amrish Patel, President of Voolsy,‘if we look at the current scenario of the customers who are visiting any restaurant expecting fast and efficient service, the outcome is at the best a mixed bag. With Voolsy, we want to change this’.
‘Currently there is no personalized attention given to a customer once they enter any restaurant. On top of this, the customers have to face the issues of lack of sufficient number of menus, shortage of staff and delays in billing while they are in the restaurant. In most of the cases, the restaurants face an utter lack in trained manpower and most of the time, waiters don’t know how to deal with customers and their queries. All these issues completely degrade the experience of the customers inside the restaurant and most often, they are left wanting of better’, says Smit Nebhwani.
How Voolsy aims to solve these problems
With Voolsy, your table is automatically detected by the iBeacon technology and this app works seamlessly inside the restaurant. You can order your food from the menus that are preloaded in the app along with info about all the cuisines offered along with their pic and quantity served. This helps in ordering the food and you can even customize your order with the help of Voolsy. Once you are done, you can even pay through this app and rate the food you had. All this is achieved without the intervention of the restaurant staff and Voolsy aims to make the dining out experience as simple and hassle free as possible.
New technology
As per Smit Nebhwani, CEO of Voolsy Networks Pvt. Ltd, ‘This app will make innovative use of the iBeacon technology for the first time in the restaurant sector in India’. iBeacon technology is used to automatically detect the tables through the Bluetooth application of the restaurant goer. Voolsy has debuted with the nine premier restaurants in Ahmedabad and they plan to expand to other restaurants soon.
Future plans
Voolsy Networks Pvt. Ltd has offices both in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. They plan to cover the major metropolitan cities in India and whole of India eventually with their app. They plan to target above par restaurants and hotel chains to give dining out a whole new meaning in such places. People at Voolsy aim to fundamentally change the dining out landscape in India.
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
