UberEats to enter India's food delivery space in Q2 2017: Report

While cab aggregator Uber has pretty much laid its foundation in India with cab services, it is now ready to venture into something different with UberEats . While the app has been available both in the Play Store and the App Store for long, Uber according to the Economic Times is looking to launch its food aggregator app UberEats in India in the second quarter of 2017.

UberEats will run in India as a separate operation. The team behind UberEats will be different from the ridesharing app at both national and city levels. The company plans to execute the same by hiring city level managers for both operations, branding and sales.

The service according to the source will start with just one city at first which will reach a total of six cities by the end of the year. That short list of cities includes Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and Gurugram.

The launch that should happen in the coming months is being headed by Manan Javeri who will report Allen Penn, Uber’s Asia Pacific head.

Penn told the Economic Times that the company is currently in the process of settings things up, which would involve acquiring talent from the best of the restaurant industry and those with experience in logistics management.

The news comes when food delivery and food aggregator apps are planning on expansion and even Google has been helping out with its new Areo app .