Thanks to the Munich startup opentabs, customers in restaurants and cafés could order via app and then pick up their order on site. Information from deutsche-startups.de the company has failed and is now being liquidated.
On the Munich Startup Map Opentabs still presented itself confidently as
"Market leader in mobile ordering and payment." With our app (iOS/Android), customers can order and pay at their favorite restaurant, and then simply pick up their order on-site without waiting in line!"
In 2014, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) also invested in the company. Now opentabs appears to be at its end.
Two founders had to leave opentabs earlier
The first bad news came about a year ago: Two of the three founders, Sebastian Heise and Dirk Röder, had to leave their company. t3n said Röder at the time:
"Unfortunately, the business didn't develop as expected, and investors lost patience. The High-Tech Gründerfonds, along with other investors, led the way in demanding drastic austerity measures."
Co-founder Nicolas Plögert was the company's managing director until recently. deutsche-startups.de he explains the liquidation of his company:
“You shouldn’t keep riding a dead horse.”
Since October of this year, Plögert has been working for the company builder “Allianz X”.
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