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Eat Station is a customer-centric online cloud kitchen concept operating multiple brands; allowing customers who love variety to mix and match tastes from 10+ restaurants all under one bill! Cloud kitchens began to emerge and grow because customers wanted a wide choice of food and they wanted it quickly— and that was how this innovative Bahraini-born multi-concept cloud kitchen was developed. Eat station operates under Eat Co; a cloud kitchen home to popular Bahraini brands such as Box-it, Tacos Burritos, What Noodles, Prept,Eat Fresh,Dog dudes( a franchise), all unique concepts operating successfully in Bahrain, and we are excited to announce that Eat Co will have a total of 40 restaurants operating in Bahrain and Saudi . 

We were very keen on getting Hadi Dawani founder of Eat Co. to describe his vision for the thriving cloud kitchen venture “ We aim to offer a variety of tastes that we know our customers love all under a cloud kitchen concept with an aim to satisfy everyone’s taste, mixing different flavors from their favorite brands  – we want to bring this Bahraini initiative to the world. We also pride ourselves in fostering a strong Bahraini culture in our company in which the talented majority of our workforce is Bahraini, we believe that Bahraini’s true potential can flourish if guided in the right direction, that’s why our strategy is, teaching our team is the core of everything we do and while doing that we learn a lot along the process”. 

Eat station wants to push for a change in the cloud kitchen scene, aiming to open more than 100 branches across GCC. Eat station’s operations are twofold; the first part is delivering food from its 10+ restaurants to hungry communities locally, the second is assisting and offering local restaurants with streamlined operations support with clean, safe, state-of-the-art kitchen facilities. 

Ali Mohsen Head of Digital was eager to share with us his vision “We are shifting towards a 360-degree holistic digital customer experience allowing our customers an optimum journey through all channels. We aim to scale quickly to new countries  and adopt a systematic approach that will create a seamless process in which we introduce new brands to new markets”.

Restaurants saw a big change in consumer behavior with COVID19, and Eat station makes it a priority to follow sanitization procedures with all the meals delivered to our customers. Mr. Hadi goes on to elaborate “ We’ve undergone a digital transformation which helped boost our sales to over two million orders locally.” 

“We want Bahrain to be at the forefront of technological innovations, so we combine our unique flavors with innovative technology that makes it easier and safer for customers to reach us, and we’re taking this model globally, here at Eat Co. we embrace challenges ” States Mr. Dawani.

Eat station has inspiring plans to expand internationally into competitive markets such as Dubai, Riyadh, Jeddah, Kuwait, and North America. “We adopted systems that create a seamless workflow with the highest levels of automation, alongside our high standard brand quality and unique flavors with state of the art kitchen facilities that gives us an added edge in the market.” says Hadi.

Box it, the popular Asian street food has now made its way to Dubai! Mark the date – July 29! It’s a great milestone for Bahrain’s popular franchise whose first shop started in UOB when the founder Hadi Al Dawani was still in university. Effort and persistence has paved the way for this venture to now make it to the highly populated area of Hessa Street. 

Box it specializes in its hand-made noodles and is known for its signature Box It sauce that has captured many customer segments and became the talk of the town. The home-made comfort food specializing in quality and freshness of the noodles has really captured our customers’ taste buds, which helped boost sales for this fast casual restaurant concept. Box it caters to all types of segments; there’s even a category for healthy options to satisfy all of Box it customers’ tastes. The plan is to slowly expand their menu to further cater to all customer segments. It’s not just the quality of food that draws the crowds to Box it, but the urban street packaging of the brand that really makes it stand out. 

Box it is part of Eat Co Middle East, the first Bahraini chain of restaurants to launch in the GCC using strategic partnerships with Kitopi.

Eat Co launched in 2010 in different locations within the Kingdom of Bahrain focusing on fast casual restaurants. Throughout 10 years we  have expanded from 1 single restaurant to 40+ restaurants, and currently we are working on our expansion in Riyadh with future endeavours to Kuwait. We are looking to continuously grow and partner with aspiring entrepreneurs

Eatco, is a virtual kitchen network that helps cook and deliver food to customers on behalf of restaurants through its own kitchens. It helps restaurants scale quickly in the digital age, rather than in the traditional brick-and-mortar way. Since its launch in 2010, Eatco’s team operates across over 14 kitchens and works with 34 restaurant partners across Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Today, while many food service businesses are struggling because of the pandemic, Eatco is powering through – in the last two months, the company has continued to hire for critical roles.