

“We’re proud to work with businesses across the country in making sure they are directly connected to customers,” McCarthy said. “Food marketplaces are incentivised to redirect a restaurant’s customers away to whoever will pay most of the order, which has a knock-on effect on the quality of food that can be offered,” it adds.įlipdish CEO and co-founder Conor McCarthy said Ireland’s hospitality industry has been badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and “we want to help support it”.

The website says food marketplaces are “waging a war” on restaurants, seeking to “syphon away their customers”. The Dublin-headquartered unicorn said the site is available in all markets where Flipdish operates. Restaurants and takeaways are listed on the website free of charge, regardless of if they’re a Flipdish customer. People will be able to use to find local food businesses in an area and order directly from them. The Irish tech unicorn is taking aim at platforms such as Deliveroo and JustEat with an initiative designed to support local food businesses.įood ordering tech start-up Flipdish has today (7 April) launched a not-for-profit directory of Irish restaurants and other eateries, which it describes as an alternative to food marketplaces such as JustEat and Deliveroo.
