Food You Seek? Click on KarachiMetro.com

Saturday, December 13, 2008 17:23
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Tired of going to the same restaurant every weekend? Or tired of eating the same pizza every time for your order? I remember calling PTCL’s directory assistance helpline to get telephone numbers of different eating places or restaurants delivering at home and office. With all the disappointment due to limited information, it was seriously a dream for me to have one single list with all the information of various restaurants and I am sure many of you like me have a similar kind of a wish. Well, so here is the dream come true moment! www.karachimetro.com is a simple yet a useful website listing almost every popular eating place in town.
Chinese, fast food, Thai or Desi, you name it and you can have it.

KarachiMetro rolls most of the popular restaurants in Karachi with their telephone numbers and also tells whether the restaurant delivers or not. That’s not just it! KarachiMetro also has online menus for some of the restaurants offering delivery services. So the next time you are ordering, you have the whole menu in front of you to choose from. Not to mention, a variety of restaurants to choose from as well. The website itself is pretty simple and neatly tabled with all the information that a visitor needs. Tweaks here and there are required but overall this one-paged website has a strong content and can have many out-eaters (like me) craving for more!
KarachiMetro is built on WordPress platform. The website offers to browse restaurants by categories. For example, if you are in a mood of eating Chinese food then all you got to do is to click on CHINESE in the categories and you can have all the information of different Chinese restaurants. You can even search for restaurant by using the search feature on the page. There are some drawbacks of the website though.
The website is not updated very frequently. The online menus they have are not updated and display some old offers. One other thing that could be a hit factor for KarachiMetro is an option of rating the restaurants. This way, people will be able rate the restaurants according to their experiences and can help others decide better as far as good food is concerned. If comments and reviews about a particular restaurant could also be added then it can be quite attracting for users. By adding all these features and building good traffic on their website, developers can easily manage to get some online ads by top restaurants in the city. Maybe they also can offer better deals for various restaurants then.
KarachiMetro is not a very heavy website, as it does not have much graphics on it. The page display is better on Mozilla Firefox as compared to Microsoft Internet Explorer. It does not take more than 3 seconds to load the page on a normal DSL connection. Another drawback of KarachiMetro.com is the low use of keywords. If you google keywords like Karachi, restaurants and the likes, the search does not return with KarachiMetro in the result. In fact, ‘Karachi Metro’ is nowhere to be seen in first three pages. The developers need to add tags and keywords and use a bit of Search Engine Optimization techniques to promote the website and get it picked by search engines. This can help them build a strong traffic on the website and people would know what KarachiMetro is all about.

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4 Responses to “Food You Seek? Click on KarachiMetro.com”

  1. M says:

    December 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Hey, thanks for the post. Just a quick add : Its not built on the wordpress platform, while I heavily build and customise wordpress for projects (such as http://buzz.ittazee.com), for karachimetro we had to build a new platform from the ground up. The platform is now modular and can be used for any city, anywhere.
    thank you for the feedback, we’ll surely use it as the next version is built!

  2. M says:

    December 15th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    Oh one more thing, there are no “developers”..I wish there were!!! :) . its just little ol’ me doing this in my free time so i dont forget how to code!

  3. Amna says:

    December 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Hi,

    Just a quick note. I went over their website and I love their service. It’ll be great for them to expand to Lahore and Islamabad as well.

    Although, just one small thing would make the experience much better. Mohtashim, can you guys add the locations of the restaurants next to their names? The way most Pakistani’s search for a restaurant is with the thought “oh lets go to that chinese in Gulberg.” Rather than remembering the name of the place.

    Good luck with your ventures. You’re doing the paki qaum a favor.

    P.S: Lahori’s love to eat. Having such a service their would be just what people want.

  4. Ali says:

    December 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 am

    http://tazanaan.com is also doing a good job as a Islamabad-based resturant website.

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