Eat Partners With TripAdvisor and Time Out to Bring More Bookings to UAE's Restaurants

DOWNTOWN BURJ KHALIFA, UAE - Oct. 30, 2017 - PRLog -- Press Release: How Eat, a Young Dubai-Based Startup, Partnered with Some of the World's Largest Technology Companies to Make Restaurant Reservations In The Middle-East Easier Than Ever

Dubai, Oct 11^th, 2017:

Restaurant reservation startup Eat announces the launch of two independent partnerships with TripAdvisor and Time Out, that make it easier for diners to make online reservations and restaurants to grow their revenue.

Visitors to either the TripAdvisor or Time Out websites are now able to make instantly confirmed bookings at hundreds of partner restaurants through the integration of Eat's real-time table booking technology.

Founded by Nezar Kadhem, and based in Dubai, Eat is on a mission to help restaurants increase their revenue by providing table and reservation management systems that drive incremental bookings.

The partnerships allow restaurants to turn the huge web traffic of both TripAdvisor and Time Out into confirmed reservations. TripAdvisor attracts 415 million visitors every month.

With these partnerships, residents and tourists, seeking out restaurants on TripAdvisor and Time Out will now:

1.     See 'Book a table' buttons on the profiles of the restaurants

2.     When they click, a booking widget is loaded that returns real time table availability

3.     The diner can then place a reservation through Eat's real-time booking system

4.     The reservation is confirmed by SMS and Email

At this point, the partnerships are currently live with almost 1000 restaurants in Bahrain, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

When asked about what this partnership means for Eat, Nezar, the founder, had this to say, "We now represent travelers with TripAdvisor, expats with our Time Out partnership, and the Middle East's foodies and passionate fine dining users with eatapp.co. Once restaurants are plugged into our network, they gain rich access to the largest pool of diners in the Middle East. We are very honored by the trust of these partners and hope to continue growing together."

The partnership is evidence that a small, regional startup can partner with some of the world's largest technology platforms by understanding, and building technology, that meets the needs of the market.

"When we looked at the data about how restaurants generate business, it quickly became clear the landscape was becoming increasingly fragmented." Says Nezar. "The reality is that a restaurant's own website is becoming increasingly less important as more and more people are discovering restaurants across food apps, aggregators, blogs and other media. We saw a big opportunity that others weren't taking."

By building a booking system that hugely improved the user experience of online reservations, Eat was able to approach potential partners with a product that was more compelling, scalable and easier to implement.

In terms of how the partnerships happened Nezar said, "Firstly, we built a product that truly met the needs of our audience and then cold called and emailed until we got a breakthrough meeting. Even the biggest tech companies are open to working with startups if it means they can add more value."

In 2017 Dubai is expected to receive 9.2 million tourists with the UAE F&B market as a whole generating $12.5 billion.

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Eat, a 500 Startups Company and founded by Nezar Kadhem, is a restaurant reservation platform that connects diners with restaurants in real time. Headquartered in Dubai, Eat currently operates in several GCC countries, including Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, as well as operating in a number of international markets.

Eat provides restaurants with table and reservation management apps that sync in real time with consumer facing restaurant discovery and booking platforms. Eat currently provides some of the world's most well know hospitality groups with table management software including The Four Seasons, Palazzo Versace and The Ritz-Carlton.

You can find out more about eat at:

Website   | https://restaurant.eatapp.co


CONTACT INFORMATION

Saif Alnasur

saif@eatapp.co