Kahini Chakraborty – Mumbai
With an aim to provide a platform to the equipment vendors to display their products online, Ready Equip will launch its website soon. The website will be run by Shweta Mehra and Amruta Kiran. Speaking to Food and Hospitality World about this new initiative, Sanjiv Deshmukh, founder, Kitchen Solutions.Com said, “This is a step towards providing standarisation of equipments. The website will provide commercial kitchen equipments. Vendors will be encouraged to provide standard sizes of products. When this standarisation takes place, it will benefit the seller for the cost of manufacturing and the buyer for the cost of purchase. Bakery equipments will also be displayed on the website. Kitchen Solutions.com will not be dealing in commercial kitchen equipment selling.”
Elaborating further, Mehra informed, “Presently the website is in the beta phase and is undergoing testing. We are getting vendors online. If someone presently goes and checks on http://www.beta.readyequip.in they will find the website with forms that they can use to register themselves and we will approve them and they can start uploading their product inventory images. The website will have equipment vendors on pan-India basis. The products will be displayed with their specifications and price. Ready Equip is a web based service that equipment vendors can use to upload their stocks online. This will help buyers to see and choose ready equipment as and when they need it.”
“This is a first-of-its-kind initiative in India. Even though its a huge food and hospitality industry, there’s nothing of this sort in India currently. We plan to revolutionise the market by having ready stocks displayed for buyers. This will totally change the way people look at the equipment market in India. We also plan to gradually provide options like location based search and then develop an app,” he added.
“Our potential sellers are not only the vendors and manufacturers, they can be restaurateurs who want to sell their old inventory stock due to change in menu options. Hence for the same, the website will also have a section of used equipments. Buyers can now choose whether to buy new or old equipments,” mentioned Kiran.