The Head of Zomato Base, Samir Kuckreja, has stepped down from his position just within eight months of joining the restaurant discovery and food delivery firm, Zomato. Last month, Chief Operating Officer of Zomato Deepak Gulati, also quit the company.
Zomato Base, launched in April last year, is an Android based Point Of Sale (POS) system which enables restaurants to manage their operations from a single platform. The cloud based system provides features like planning the menu, recipe, inventory management, built in payment solution that accepts debit and credit card payments, CRM and real time analytics.
According to a news portal, Kuckreja’s decision to quit the company was triggered by the company’s decision not to follow the growth roadmap for Zomato Base that he had agreed with the firm originally. Commenting on his decision, Kuckreja said, “The original idea was that Zomato Base would become one of the key verticals which would drive revenues in two three years. But they recently decided that they didn’t want to grow this vertical on the scale that we had talked about.”
While Zomato has confirmed the resignation, the company insists the PoS business is an area that they will continue to grow. Speaking about Zomato Base, a spokesperson for the company said, “We continue to be bullish on the PoS business. Zomato Base was, since the time of its launch, and continues to be, a long term play for us. It is true, Kuckreja has moved on from Zomato. He will continue to be a friend and advisor to both Deepinder and Zomato.”
Samir Kuckreja was the former CEO of the iconic New Delhi QSR chain Nirula’s Corner House and Mars Hotels and Restaurant before joining ZOmato in February this year. He also founded the consulting firm, Tasanaya Hospitality Pvt., Ltd., which offered services to international and domestic restaurant chains.
The restaurant discovery and food delivery platform has seen half a dozen C-suite executives leaving the company within months of joining. Before Kuckreja and Deepak Gulati, Chief Marketing Officer Rameet Arora stepped down within six months along with Chief Product Officer Tanmay Saksena in 2016.