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HungryNaki's job of delivering food right at your doorstep, started with a set of four delivery men and their bikes, six office staff members and a collaboration with only 30 restaurants, back in 2013. Initially they were limited to serving roughly 10 orders a day, that too only in Gulshan-Banani area.

Three years in this business, and right now this online food delivery service is working with over 900 restaurants in three major cities- Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, serving around 550-600 orders per day.

Why we call their job 'noble'?

Simply put- HungryNaki feeds the hungry who want to eat without dealing with the traffic, saving you the time and hassle of cooking meal at home. Also with their straight forward and simply written website, they offer you to choose any food you like, from a range of restaurants. It's a perfect combination of food and convenience.

Founded by Ahmad A D, Sazid Rahman and Tausif Ahmad the website first began operating from October, 2013. “Like everyone else, we used to meet up after office hours and used to brainstorm business ideas,” says A N M Saiful Imam, senior marketing executive. “These meetings used to take place for a very long time, and food was a must. When we struggled to order food from various places at once, we thought if there's any way to simplify this process. And so we forgot every other idea and focused on what we love the most– food!”

Dhaka traffic poses both pros and cons for them. While it is quite hard to manage a food delivery business in a traffic packed city, also because of the traffic, people order from us rather than going to the restaurant.

“The biggest challenge that we faced during these three years has also been our greatest achievement,” says Saiful. “We were one of the firsts to establish our ground as a start-up. Also when we started, at the same time, food panda also made its entrance in the market and we being a fully Bangladeshi company with no foreign investment and foreign involvement, faced quite a competition. In the past three years, we have built an IT team of young and talented developers. Be it HungryNaki's website or its mobile application, everything was developed by our in-house developers.”

This three year-long of journey of HungryNaki's was not an easy one, admits Saiful. “Our job was difficult, as people were not ready for having restaurant food without going to a restaurant,” Saiful continues. “But eventually with our service, we could get people habituated to the ritual of having food delivered at home, simply with a click. Initially people would feel a sense of mistrust when it comes making online money transactions, but we have overcome that too.” In fact according to SSL Commerz Data, HungryNaki is amongst the top names, in terms of online card payment.

“We have come up with a few exciting offers with over 40 restaurants, for the food enthusiasts as a part of the month long celebration of our third anniversary. Stay with us to learn more about these deals,” Saiful ends.