Walid Sanchez
Restaurant discovery interface presented beside Saudi dishes
All work

03 · Food technology

Sufrati

From an idea to a digital business.

Role

Founder · Brand & Product Lead

Discipline

Brand · Digital · Business · Content & Film

Context

2014 archive

Location

Saudi Arabia & Lebanon

Overview

An early Saudi restaurant discovery platform that grew from a market gap into a bilingual digital business.

Make fragmented restaurant information useful to diners while creating practical membership and content tools for restaurant owners.

The challenge / opportunity

Reliable data, Arabic and English content, mobile behaviour, restaurant onboarding and monetisation all had to develop together.

The thinking / approach

The product joined identity, UX, restaurant operations, editorial content and B2B membership into one growing platform.

What we built

01

Bilingual web and mobile products

02

Menus, offers, ratings and comments

03

Restaurant membership model

04

Owner tools and data workflows

05

Professional video reviews and content marketing

Behind the scenes

Archive materialArab News profile, 21 October 2014Source artifact to be supplied
Archive materialArchived product interfacesSource artifact to be supplied
Archive materialPress coverageSource artifact to be supplied

Representative slots are reserved for original project documents and media.

18

Saudi cities covered

14

Cities in Lebanon

$1.1M

Proposed offer accepted; transaction did not proceed

“Sufrati’s shareholders accepted a proposed USD 1.1M acquisition offer from Zomato. The transaction ultimately did not proceed.”