Vendease: Marketplace for Africa’s restaurants
By Guardian Exclusive
03 June 2021 |
10:42 am
There is an online marketplace that makes procurement easy and more transparent for hotels and restaurants in Africa. It is called Vendease, and on this one-of-a-kind platform, anyone in the food business can order the best quality products at the best possible price. Tunde Kara, the platform’s co-founder and CEO, explains how it works.
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