It’s that time again folks! This Sunday we’ll be giving away a €20 JustEat voucher to one lucky person! So what do you have to do?

Each day from tomorrow up to Sunday, we’ll be posting a letter, for example ‘Today’s Unscramble Me! letter is ‘X’. You need to be on the lookout for 5 letters.

On Sunday, when we ask ‘What was our word?’, you must post the unscrambled word onto our wall! Then we’ll choose the winner at random. Simple!

*The letters will be released on our Facebook AND Twitter pages*

Terms and Conditions apply. Voucher valid for 1 year.

We are delighted to announce Brian Hickey as Managing Director of Just-Eat.ie! Here’s a little about the man himself:

Bio: On completion of a BA Degree in Business and an internship with Procter & Gamble, Brian spent 2 years working with Superquinn in a B2C marketing capacity. In 2001, he joined Danone (formerly Numico) where he worked in a senior sales management position helping the company to achieve their dominant market position. In 2006, he joined Innocent Drinks Ltd. where he spent 4 years heading up the commercial interests for the Irish business. Brian spent some time travelling around the southern hemisphere before joining Just Eat in January 2012 where he heads up the Irish team.

Favourite take away menu: Chicken Madras (Khans Balti House)

Frequency: Twice per month

Joined JE: Jan 2012

Why did I join: To help some great people build a really successful business and have a little fun along the way

First e-commerce transaction: 1998 …a Pearl Jam CD I think

Twitter account: No

LinkedIn profile: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/brian-hickey/9/2/a84

We wish Brain the very best of luck in his new role as MD.

Today is a very special day. We still can’t believe it’s 2012 although we’re now 10 days into the New Year. 2011 was amazing year for Just-Eat.ie, we grew by another 300%. This fantastic growth was down to you ordering from our service!

Thank you very much on behalf of everyone here at Just-Eat.ie.

To celebrate our success, for tonight only, we are offering a 20% discount on all takeaway orders *card holders only* How cool is that?!

Simply use the code Jan2012 when you’re ordering, sit back and enjoy!

Thank you so much for using the JustEat service, we hope that you have a peaceful Christmas.

The best of wishes,
From the JustEat.ie Team

Just-Eat Group CEO Klaus Nyengaard is interviewed in the Financial Times (19/10/2011) where Klaus discusses the importance of technology to Just-Eat.

You can also listen to Klaus discussing technology and Just-eat with Stephen Pritchard via the Financial Times ‘Connected Business’ podcast here.

Follow us on Twitter @JustEatNews for other important news and updates.

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“Feed me! Feed me! Feed me!
Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
That’s right, boy
You can do it
Feed me, Seymour
Feed me all night long
‘Cause if you feed me, Seymour
I can grow up big and strong”
Audrey II sings – Feed me (Go get it) – Little Shop of Horrors

Feed me Seymore

The little shop of horrors is these days a classic musical. Seymour Krelborn is the lamentable no-hoper who makes good with the aid (or despite the aid) of an alien plant bent on world domination. The demand “feed me” though is something that a lot of people will be familiar with, whether it’s from a demanding other half or if you have your own monsters who seem bent on world domination, or at least domestic domination.
If you’re a domestic goddess (or god) and you have a demanding terror or terrors you feel you can’t say no to, you probably find it difficult to get anything done.
Eliminating some of the demands is one way to ease your way back to domestic Nirvana so while Judo, ballet, football and homework can’t be binned, dealing with the “Feed me” demand is something you can unburden yourself from at least now and again.
Obviously eating out all the time with your “Audrey II”s is too expensive for most people, not to mention a logistical and disciplinary nightmare that a Commando Colonel would be proud to pull off, but that doesn’t mean you are chained to the stove. Take out food might be your salvation.  These days the choice for online restaurants is growing enough to cater for almost any tastes and whether your delivery is in Dublin, Galway or Cork you can just pop onto JustEat.ie and sort it all out in one easy move. Might be worth doing before your little horrors start making demands for blood. 

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Location: Field Based – Dublin

Background:

The biggest international food delivery portal needs an experienced Sales & Marketing Executives for Just-Eat Ireland Ltd. Just-Eat is the international number 1 online food ordering company with an established network of 15,000+ restaurants, a strong business model, and a desire to cater for hungry internet-users demands in many countries.

Just-Eat employ over 600 people across Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain and India. More countries will go online during 2011, so the Sales & Marketing Executives will have international colleagues from many different countries and will collaborate across borders and cultures. The company is backed by investors with long track-records in building successful internet businesses including Skype, Last.fm, Facebook, LinkedIn, Lovefilm and mySql.

Job Description

We are looking for dedicated individuals to join our Sales & Marketing Department. This position provides an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a dynamic and growing Irish Internet business. You also have the prospect of making a very healthy commission each month as our menu card prices will not be beaten! All our menu cards are produced in Ireland therefore offering excellent turnaround times.

Role description:
Selling menu cards promotional deals to existing JustEat.ie delivery restaurants throughout Dublin & other promotional material.

Candidate requirements:
Must have your own transport

• Reliable, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and trustworthy
  Excellent selling ability and want to work
• Have a passion for sales

If you think you fit the bill, then apply here

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We all know the drill you get a menu through the letterbox. There’s about twenty of them, we gently sift through them and ultimately settle on trying out all the Chinese takeaways that deliver in the hope that we won’t be poisoned. When we hit one where it’s quite nice we often become creatures of habit with one number wired into the phone for our Saturday night feasting.
But lets be frank a simple change in personell or just a mistranslation by someone who has English as a second language can turn your Peking duck into a General Tsongs Chicken. A recent experience with a wrong order from my local Chinese take-away in Dublin had this exact problem. It could easily have been your local take-away in cork or the galway delivery of a pizzeria, the problems can be the same. So what to do about it?
I decided to check out ways of getting my order in without it being misinterpreted at all.

• Going into the take-away and having them read the order back to me.

This worked quite well as I could correct things on the spot but lets be honest it does take some of the convenience out of take out food.

Verdict – Reliable but self defeating.

• Carrier Pigeon

I tried this but none of the carrier pigeons ever came back and I never received my take-away. I’m presuming foul play or that the owner of a local sit-down restaurant has intercepted them with an air-gun. Also pigeons make a mess in your living room and may get you into trouble with your landlord.

Verdict – Unreliable and slightly messy.

• An Post

This method didn’t work although I think that may be because the take-away may have thought it was a wind-up. Problems here are registered post is expensive and also mailing the restaurant takes a little of the spontaneity out of the take away meal.

Verdict – Reliable but untimely and expensive

• Online Restaurants

Seemed like a good idea and not bad if an individual restaurant has a system and if everyone wants the same kind of food.

Verdict – Reliable but limited

• Just-Eat.ie

This seems really the answer to all my prayers. I type in the order myself, I pay the money they deliver. No delays, no mistakes and no pigeon droppings or feathers.

Verdict – Feed me
So there you have it folks Just-eat.ie it’s better than the post or carrier pigeons for getting you what you want when you want it.

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World’s largest online takeaway service consolidates foothold in UK with purchase

Just-Eat, the world’s largest online takeaway service, has completed its acquisition of Urbanbite, a leading London online food delivery provider. The deal consolidates Just-Eat’s position as the UK’s leading online service for takeaway restaurants and gives it access to Urbanbite’s industry leading corporate business.

The deal, which sees Just-Eat take a 100 per cent stake in Urbanbite, will have founder Ben Carmona remain with the company in a key leadership role. Urbanbite, founded in 2000, operates a corporate account scheme whereby employees of major organisations can order dinner online at the company’s expense subject to a number of proprietary rules and policies. With 60 per cent of Urbanbite’s 15,000 orders a month coming from corporate customers, the acquisition places Just-Eat firmly at the forefront of this burgeoning market.

Carmona said “We are delighted to be joining forces with a major and influential player like as Just-Eat. This, I believe, will give the business the boost and credibility it needs to make significant inroads into the lucrative corporate market.”

David Buttress, Managing Director for UK for Just-Eat, said “With people working longer hours, more companies are offering food deliveries for their employees. The corporate market is one of the fastest growing sectors in the industry, and this acquisition not only further consolidates our position as the UK’s leading online takeaway provider, but helps us establish a strong grasp on the key London and corporate markets. As an industry leader we are always looking for opportunities to grow and develop as a business, and with Urbanbite becoming part of the Just-Eat family we will have access to the knowledge Ben and his team have built up over the last few years.”

The Urbanbite deal is the third acquisition Just-Eat have made in 2011, following a move into Brazil with RestauranteWeb and the purchase of Hungry Zone in India earlier in the year. This rapid growth has been supported by a $48 million round of VC funding in March, and the appointment of key personnel, including Ask.com’s Chief Product Officer Daniel Read to the same role at Just-Eat.

Daniel Read joins company as Chief Product Officer as expansion continues

Just-Eat, the world’s largest online takeaway ordering service, has hired Daniel Read as its new Chief Product Officer. Daniel will be responsible for product vision and execution across the four continents Just-Eat operates in.

Daniel was previously at Ask.com in California where he was Chief Product Officer, driving product, user experience and innovation. He was the creative leader of a team which pioneered search and mobile products that set industry standards, won multiple webby awards, and became a PC World top innovator alongside the Wii and iPhone.  He was also a member of the founding team of Ask Jeeves UK, and a key executive in the turnaround of the company globally, which was acquired for $2bn by IAC/InteractiveCorp.

Daniel said “It’s an exciting time to join Just-Eat as it expands globally. We will be laser-focused on innovation and growing the business, to give our customers and restaurants a truly world class experience.”

Klaus Nyengaard, CEO of Just-Eat, said “We’re always looking to innovate and grow as a business, and give our partner restaurants a platform they can use to reach more customers. To be able to do that we need to have the best, most creative people in the industry working for Just-Eat, and Daniel fits the bill perfectly. He’s going to be a major asset as we expand our product range and develop our key channels.”

Daniel has also worked at British Airways and Royal Mail, creating both companies’ first web and ecommerce operations, and is the founder of product lab, Freeform, and an advisor to a number of consumer product and technology businesses.  He holds a BA from Leeds Business School and MA in Design from Central St Martin’s, and is also a Chartered Marketer.

About the Just-Eat Group

Just-Eat, launched in Denmark in 2001, is based in London and is now active in 16 countries around the globe. Just-Eat delivers over 100,000 meals a day and has received more than 30m orders since the site launched. There are currently over 20,000 takeaway restaurants signed up to Just-Eat’s site which uses proprietary technology to offer a seamless on-line ordering service. Just-Eat is currently generating over $500m in revenue per year for the restaurant industry and was listed in the TechCrunch Europe Top 100 Index 2010. Just-Eat was also recently ranked number 28 in the Sunday TimesTech Track 100.

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