Online restaurant guide and booking engine Eat out Kenya has partnered with Kopo Kopo and Safaricom’s M-Pesa service to enable restaurant patrons to conveniently pay their bills.
Eat Out Kenya’s managing director Mikul Shah says the new partnership will above all bring convenience for its clients while at the same time enhancing safer transactions.
“We are looking forward to bringing new easily accessible technologies to restaurants for the convenience of both patrons and restaurateurs,” said Shah.
The partnership, which will see restaurants charged 1.5 per cent per transaction, will further increase the number of Kenyans involved in cashless transactions.
“We are very excited about the partnership with Safaricom and Eat Out as it gives Kenya’s leading restaurants a chance to accept electronic payments at the best rate in Kenya,” Dylan Higgins, chief executive officer (CEO) at Kopo Kopo, said.
Shah said Eat Out’s expertise combined with Kopo Kopo’s management and reporting process will assist the company in extending its reach, as he expects further products in future.
“We’ve built fantastic relationships with hundreds of restaurants over the past few years, and when we see a product that could truly benefit our clients we are more than happy to help facilitate its adoption,” he said.
“M-Pesa should be an option that every restaurant offers, especially when Kopo Kopo have streamlined the management and reporting process. Over the next few months we will be launching further products with Safaricom so stay tuned,” Mikul added.
Safaricom chief executive officer (CEO) Bob Collymore says he hopes the partnership will attract more SMEs to use the telecom’s products.
“This partnership will afford restaurant owners the opportunity to attract a vast number of clientele as well as process their payment by the seconds,” said Collymore.
In 2012 Eat Out Kenya assisted over 100,000 dinners last year, generating over KSh200 million (US$2.3 million) in revenues for restaurants.
