Hot off the press - Zomato comes to New Zealand

Zomato, a restaurant guide site based in India has come to New Zealand, or at least to Auckland and Wellington (sorry everyone else in NZ, you don't exist). You can read the press release below and check out the Android app for free on the Play Store now.

Zomato, the social restaurant guide, launches in New Zealand

July 22nd, 2013: Zomato, the world's fastest-growing online restaurant guide, has launched its operations in New Zealand, with sections for Auckland and Wellington. Covering over 4,500 restaurants across the two key cities, Zomato is available on the web and on their free mobile apps (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry).

Zomato.com provides in-depth information on over 4,500 restaurants in Auckland and Wellington, making it the most exhaustive restaurant discovery platform in the country for anyone looking to dine out, have food delivered, or order take-away. Zomato’s strength is the information it provides on the restaurants, such as scanned menus, photos, mapped coordinates, and user reviews. On mobile, Zomato’s award-winning app is location-aware and suggests the best restaurants around a user’s physical location. All of Zomato's web features are available and fully supported on the mobile app.

Some interesting facts that about restaurants in New Zealand:

• Auckland and Wellington have a total of around 4500 restaurants with Auckland accounting for about 3500 of these
• Chinese and Japanese cuisines are the most popular cuisines in Auckland and Wellington with these restaurants accounting for 25% of the total
• Fast food and pizza restaurants make up about 20% of the 4500 restaurants in Auckland and Wellington
• Indian cuisine is popular as well with about 200 restaurants in Auckland serving the spicy fare

Pankaj Chaddah, Co-Founder and COO, said "We've been expanding our geographical footprint aggressively over the past few months, and New Zealand is an important market for us. The response from all the other seven countries we are present in has been overwhelming. In addition to the large number of users we see visiting Zomato, restaurant owners also see the value that Zomato adds to their business, and we’re expecting this trend to continue in New Zealand as well. We are also looking at expanding to Australia in the next few months, and we are looking forward to doing well in both the markets.”

More about Zomato:

• Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Zomato is currently present in 8 countries: India, UAE, UK, the Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, South Africa and New Zealand
• Zomato provides in-depth information such as scanned menus, mapped coordinates, contact details, pictures, and user ratings and reviews for over 103,000 restaurants worldwide. It covers over 4500 restaurants between Auckland and Wellington.
• With a combined web and mobile traffic of over 14 million users per month, Zomato is ranked among the top 2,600 websites in the world (source: Alexa)
• Zomato is the only vertical social network of its kind, based on a rich and credible content base. Users can choose a network of credible foodies & friends to follow and get restaurant recommendations from them, or send one another direct messages to plan meals and get-togethers.

Zomato plans to further expand its reach into continental Europe, the Middle East, South America and South-East Asia in this calendar year.

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