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The Westin Mumbai Garden City in collaboration with Eazy Diner welcomed select patrons to indulge in an inviting and hearty Italian fare at Prego on 02nd December 2018. The spread was specially curated by the famed food critic Vir Sanghvi, and adroitly prepared by the in-house Italian culinary maestro Chef Antonello Cancedda.

This special feast told a story of an authentic Italian meal, themed around the concept of 'Sprezzatura', an Italian relaxed way of life.

Prego offers its guests a laid-back culinary experience combined with home-style authentic Italian cooking and scrumptious signature dishes that are close to perfection on a plate. Using traditional Italian flavors and skilled techniques, guests were in for an afternoon soirée with the best of Prego's spectacular menu.

They reveled in laughter, togetherness and liveliness along with luscious food at Prego, The Westin Mumbai Garden City. 

Global fast food chain sbarro has partnered with khan bahadur food to open eight restaurants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. All restaurants will open simultaneously throughout Dhaka.  

The opening was headed by many campaigns including celebrity show, gala events which attended by many celebrity.  Sbarro a pizza brand is the first New York style pizza restaurant in Bangladesh. Khan bahadur food and sbarro has opened many successful restaurants in past 2 years and have enjoyed much success by focussing on hygiene, quality and some exceptional customer service.

Mayeen Chowdhry MD of khan Bahadur Group said on opening event “We focused on communicating that Sbarro was an iconic American brand and that a taste of Sbarro's delicious pizza was a taste of America. This strategy proved to be so successful that we could invest in 8 stores making it a powerhouse international franchise brand in Bangladesh. With bigger global brands here, the move of opening 8 stores at a time was strategic because it shows strength and puts us at par with the more famous brands. We have all the intentions of continuing to open more Sbarro locations in Bangladesh.”

While David Karam the CEO of Sbarro said on this occasion “We are very appreciative of the work that Mayeen and all the individuals within the Khan Bahadur Group put forth to open eight restaurants in such a short period of time. That is no easy feat, yet this team's commitment to their people and to making sure all of the details were in order was nothing short of tremendous. Mayeen and his team are excellent ambassadors of Sbarro in Bangladesh as shown by their proven success over the last few years. We are excited for their continued growth in the country."

Online table reservation startup EazyDiner has raised Rs 30 crore in a fresh round of funding led by its existing backers Deepak Shahdadpuri-led DSG Consumer Partners and Saama Capital, with two new investors also coming on board.

Joining the startup's investor cap table are Singapore-based early stage venture capital firm Beenext and a Middle-East-based family office. According to company executives, the Series-B round values EazyDiner at a pre-money valuation of Rs 250 crore.

Rohit Dasgupta, CEO of EazyDiner said "We will be focusing on improving our technology stack, and expanding our footprints within and outside the country's borders.”

Till date, the company has raised Rs 51 crore across rounds. EazyDiner operates in nine cities, including Dubai, and expects to be in six more locations by the end of the current fiscal. As part of its international expansion, the start-up is targeting to set up operations in Abu Dhabi by the second or third quarter of next year.

Besides Dasgupta, the company also counts media personality Vir Sanghvi as a founder, along with six professionals with a background in food, beverages and hospitality sectors.

EazyDiner, which combines the services of Google-owned dining guide Zagat, NYSE-listed restaurant reviews firm Yelp and Priceline-owned restaurant booking service OpenTable, competes with the likes of online food ordering platform Zomato, which has begun to make substantial strides in the space, as well as Di ..

The company lists 56,000 restaurants on its platform, of which 2,500 are instantly bookable. It claims to place more than 1 lakh diners monthly, across its restaurants, charging establishments between Rs 75 and Rs 150 per diner.

Earlier this year, the company announced a strategic partnership with travel site TripAdvisor. Under the terms of the partnership, TripAdvisor users, domestic as well as international, can make restaurant reservations in India, while EazyDiner will be able to activate the inbound travel market through TripAdvisor’s global reach - the restaurant reviews and ratings being available on its site and app.

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EazyDiner, in collaboration with India’s top hoteliers and restaurateurs announces its entry into Bengaluru.

EazyDiner launched its service in Delhi earlier this year in January and has grown close to 40X in the last 10 months.

This online reservation platform has booked 15,000+ diners in October alone, up from the 400 diners in January.

The platform also provides a customized experience to its diners through its expert concierge service, which allows diners to call a trained dining concierge team @ 786 100 4444, who not only provide recommendations but also assist with bookings at even hard-to-get-into restaurants.

The EazyDiner platform helps a diner get bookings at their favorite restaurants with great deals and earn EazyRupees with every reservation. Partner restaurants include some of India’s best restaurants and range from award winning stand-alone restaurants to top five star hotels. EazyTrends is a celebration of food and beverage trends and how things are evolving in this dynamic space and fresh content is produced daily.

Sue Reitz, Managing Director of EazyDiner commented, “We are very excited with the growth that we have seen in the last ten months in Delhi NCR & Mumbai. The response to EazyDiner has been phenomenal and we are pleasantly surprised as to how people have embraced a new way to make restaurant reservations. Not only are we bringing in a dining revolution but we are also filling up restaurants like never before as diners continue to save substantial money and time, every time they dine through us."

Adding to the same, Deepak Shahdadpuri, Managing Director, DSG Consumer Partners said, more than ever, diners are choosing where to dine and making bookings based on information accessed on their mobile devices. Eazydiner is now bringing their successful product to Bengaluru after testing the market in Delhi since January and launching in Mumbai in July. EazyDiner has significantly enhanced its product and services since its initial launch incorporating the learnings from each market, diners and restaurants. EazyDiner works very hard everyday for its diners and restaurants to make the dining out experience easier and more fun.” Ash Lilani, Managing Partner & Co-founder of Saama Capital said, “EazyDiner is perfect for Bengaluru which is a city with a strong culture of food and dining out.  The city has a high concentration of restaurants per capita as well as a strong understanding of leveraging technology for efficiency. I expect the adoption rate for the app in the city to have a lot of momentum very quickly.”

Founded in late 2014, EazyDiner is India’s first online restaurant reservation platform curated by India’s leading food critic Vir Sanghvi. EazyDiner will launch in Chennai later this year followed by Pune.

Renowned food critic and popular restaurant business blogger Sourish Bhattacharyya has come on board with EazyDiner.com as Lead Critic for Delhi-NCR.

Bhattacharyya joins a stellar team headed by Vir Sanghvi; comprising Kalyan Karmakar and Roxanne Bamboat in Mumbai & Priyadarshini Nandy and Ipsita Basu in Bengaluru.

“It’s a great feeling to be working under Vir again. It was he who encouraged me to start writing about food seriously when he was Editor of the Hindustan Times.” Recalling those early days of food writing, when the India restaurant business was way down the evolutionary ladder, Bhattacharyya adds: “Vir set the ground rules for us then and it is heartening to see that those fundamental principles — honest reporting and unbiased ratings — continue to form the core of EazyDiner’s editorial philosophy. This gives me a sense of continuity and I look forward to this opportunity to hone my skills as a food critic”

With this new role, apart from reviewing restaurants and bars in Delhi-NCR, he will map food and beverage traditions and trends in the national capital and its neighborhood.

A journalist with 30 years of professional experience behind him, Bhattacharyya is a freelance restaurant critic and Op-Ed page food columnist for India Today Group’s Mail Today newspaper.

He’s also the founding Contributing Editor of the hospitality industry B2B magazine, BW Hotelier; blogger at www.indianrestaurantspy.com; and a founder member of the Delhi Gourmet Club.

In the past, he has served as Executive Editor, Mail Today; Editor, HT City, the lifestyle section of the Hindustan Times; and National Features Editor, The Indian Express. At Mail Today, he also edited the dining out guide, Delhi-NCR’s 101 Finest Restaurants, from 2011 to 2013.