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Chow Central Inc

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consumer
restaurant-tech
food
food-&-beverage
 
https://chowcentral.com

Asset Light Chipotle for Africa

Founded in October 2022, Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. Chow Central has launched its first product "500chow". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. Our customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius. We are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.
Chow Central Inc
Founded:2022
Team Size:
Location:Lagos, Nigeria
Group Partner:Michael Seibel
  

Active Founders

Tosin Onafuye, Founder

Building tomorrow today.
Tosin Onafuye
Tosin Onafuye
Chow Central Inc
 

Christopher Obasi, Founder

Building the future today
Christopher Obasi
Christopher Obasi
Chow Central Inc
 

Adeyemi Onafuye, Founder

Chief Product Officer at Chow Central. I have 8 years of experience in technology and management consulting. I have worked extensively in the tech startup ecosystem in Nigeria. I am a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community.
Adeyemi Onafuye
Adeyemi Onafuye
Chow Central Inc
 

Company Launches

Chow Central, virtual restaurant chains in African cities

Hi YC 👋🏾, we’re Tosin, Christopher, and Adeyemi operating from Lagos, Nigeria.

Chow Central is building restaurant chains for Millennials and Gen Z living in African cities who want high-quality and healthy meals. Think of us as Chipotle for African meals.

Chow Central started as a fun experiment shortly after we graduated from University.  We created a virtual restaurant page on Twitter to sell affordable meals and also help underutilized restaurants get sales during the Covid lockdown.

We relaunched 18 months ago, currently active in just one region and we are doing over $80,000 in monthly revenue.

We have modified our approach, we operate a central kitchen to improve quality and maintain consistency. We then partner with highly-vetted underutilized commercial kitchens to serve as our fulfillment centers.

Our customers love our delicious recipes and our faster & cheaper deliveries. Our approach of leveraging underutilized kitchens allows us to initially launch in a location with minimal capital investment.


We operate two restaurant brands:

Firstly, 500chow is a high-quality restaurant that serves delicious local African delicacies. Our second restaurant is a healthy grill, shawarma, and barbecue restaurant.

Millennials and Gen Z in African cities who want to order meals online are still underserved. There are over 50 million of them, if we can serve 5 million of them once every month with an average spend of $8, this represents a $5B market opportunity. 

Chris and Yemi previously built industry-leading products at Moniepoint. Tosin previously worked at Vendease (W21) a restaurant supply-chain company.

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