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RoundMenu is an online service that helps searching and booking restaurants, whilst offering users up to 50% discounted bills at their favorite restaurants in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Restaurants can be filtered by cuisine, location, or theme. Reservations can be done either through the website credits which are purchased with a credit card, or replying to confirmations via SMS in exchange for 5 AED. Booking and confirming through RoundMenu automatically makes you eligible for "over 200 restaurant promotions mainly in Dubai, and few in Abu Dhabi,” according to cofounder Zaid Jawwad.

Whenever the guest arrives at the venue, they are asked to show the code that was previously sent to their mobile phone to benefit from the discount. “Our value preposition is the simplicity of booking a promotion online or through our apps, and receiving the promotion through SMS, eliminating the need to carry print outs or any form of physical coupons,” explains Zaid, hinting at RoundMenu’s competitor, The Entertainer, which still relies on physical coupons for discounts and offers.

RoundMenu also has iOS, Android and BlackBerry apps available for download. The website, which utilizes location-based-services, attracts over 45 thousand unique visitors monthly, and the application has been downloaded more than 6700 times so far. "I envisage the apps will eventually be the main driver for our service as users are demanding more from being mobile," adds Zaid.

Owners can add their restaurant and promotions to the service here.

The team is also planning on expanding their scope of business to include all the United Arab Emirates, KSA and Lebanon.

RoundMenu is a Honeybee Tech Ventures portfolio company, which also owns online recruitment service Laimoon. ArabNet has previously conducted an interview with Honeybee Ventures cofounder Ihsan Jawad, who happens to be Zaid’s brother and business-partner.

To find out more about RoundMenu you can visit their website, follow them on Twitter, or like their Facebook page.