Chowdeck

Chowdeck is described as a West African on-demand food delivery and quick-commerce platform. Its official site presents ordering from restaurants and markets, groceries, and pharmacy supplies, with app downloads and rider, vendor, and team onboarding. A founder's story on the company page is attributed to Babafemi Aluko, identified as ceo / co-founder.

A founder's story on Chowdeck's company page is attributed to Babafemi Aluko, identified as ceo / co-founder. In that account, he states he tested positive for COVID on the 31st of December, 2020, could not travel home, and spent January 1 looking for food vendors to deliver food; the available food delivery providers did not deliver during public holidays, and he eventually found one after many hours and paid 4x the regular amount. During a 14-day isolation, he says he realised no one was really looking into the logistics problem with the care and attention he would have wished for. He states he started asking questions, that most answers ended with 'dispatch riders are not reliable', and that he made a lot of research and discovered delivery companies in countries like India made millions of deliveries daily. He says they initially approached the problem from a technical standpoint, then realised the problem was more operations than tech and needed to deconstruct operations before trying again, and went back to first principles. He states they pulled funds from their pockets, got three bikes and riders, gave two of them to Korede Spaghetti and one to NiFries, and held weekly meetings with their riders. He says they built the first version of the app in 3 weeks and launched public beta in Octobe… (snippet truncated).

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3. 3Chowdeckwikidata.org