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Industry
  
Online food ordering

Website
  
hungryhouse.co.uk

Founders
  
Shane Lake, Tony Charles

Headquarters
  
London, UK

Founded
  
2006

Parent organization
  
Delivery Hero

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CEO
  
Alice Mrongovius (Feb 2016–)

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hungryhouse.co.uk is a UK-based platform for the online ordering of takeaway food owned by German company Delivery Hero. It allows users to search for restaurants and browse local takeaway menus before placing an order online.

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As of mid 2016, Hungryhouse claims over 10,000 restaurants partners on its platform and operates in most major cities across the UK.

In January 2013 the company was bought by Berlin-based holding company Delivery Hero.

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History

Co-founders Shane Lake and Tony Charles founded Hungryhouse in 2003, launching the online platform in 2006.The co-founders appeared on BBC1’s investment show Dragons' Den in 2007, with an offer of £100,000 investment coming from James Caan and Duncan Bannatyne.

The investment deal with the Dragons later collapsed, with a £150,000 investment coming from alternative business angels. The initial round of funding was used to expand the business, increasing hungryhouse’s restaurant partners from 150 in 2007 to 2,500 in September 2010.

In February 2013, it was announced that hungryhouse was to be bought by the Berlin-based food ordering giant Delivery Hero, which operates in a total of 16 markets worldwide and has a total of 60,000 restaurant partners.

In December 2016, Just Eat announced that it was acquiring Hungryhouse from Delivery Hero for £200m (with the possibility of a further 40m if the company hits performance targets). This deal still needs to be approved by the Competition and Markets Authority.

Functionality

The Hungryhouse platform is available online, including via the free iPhone or Android apps.

Customers enter their postcode to locate restaurants that deliver to their address, and can browse menus and read customer reviews to identify the best local restaurants. To place an order on the platform, menu items can be placed in the order basket and online payment can be made via credit/debit card.

Hungryhouse's main competitors are Just Eat, GrubHub, and Deliveroo.

References

Hungryhouse Wikipedia