Digital dining

Akshay TS
3 min readAug 6, 2018

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Isn’t it fascinating how the advancement and evolution of technologies have overthrown our struggles and has made our life simpler? The technological revolution has made the access too handy so that everyone can make the best use of it. So does the major furtherance in the food industry, the revolution of the food industry is pretty promising and is already progressive in nature.

Earlier we had to travel to places to taste our desired dishes but now it’s so simple, now we can surf and order our preferred dishes online, which will be delivered within minutes. The online food services are gradually condescending the traditional service by providing better dining services and finer choices. The digital advancements in the food industry have helped the producers in expanding their service and also in targeting their preferred audience, most of the online services have tie-ups with google maps and local restaurants which assists them in rapid distributions.

There is an extensive increase in the number of food delivering applications, apps like UberEats and Zomato are taking over by providing simpler and yet effective dining services these apps helps us in saving both time and energy. The most compelling elements about these applications are that they feature some small independent restaurants, cafes and even big luxury hotels, so that we can surf around and select our food providers from our locality by which we are providing our support to the local businesses as well.

These applications even provide us with plenty of food choices to select and order our desired cuisines and dishes from anywhere with an internet connection. They even provide an assurance of good quality and excellent hygiene in the production process, they work in real time with more affordable and efficient products and services which persuades most of the consumers to switch from traditional food servicing methods to the online platforms.

Unlike these pre-prepared food services the advancements can also be witnessed in the digital supermarkets and Grocery Suppliers from the food industry, service providers like Bigbasket, Amazon fresh and Grofers provide groceries and product services through the digital medium which again saves our time and energy. These services offer service with an affordable price range and they even claim to have products with better quality and are more efficient than the regular products available in the local market. A very profound strategy used by these online service providers is that their products and services are eco-friendly. By indulging with their service we are helping for the betterment of our environment is their watchword to attract and increase their customers.

Now people are adapting to the digital platforms and are starting to believe that the digital platforms are a form of life hacks to save our time, money and also energy. Even though there is a huge fan following for the digital platforms many retail analysts believe’s that the traditional platforms will never run out business because there will always be a significant number of customers who prefer to buy products and services by practically self-examining the product in real time and also by connecting with the retailers instantly. Some people feel that the digital platforms are less credible when compared to the traditional platforms and indulge in the regular traditional methods for products and services.

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