{"id":44826,"date":"2016-09-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44826"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T16:05:46","slug":"josh-magidson-zing-zing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/josh-magidson-zing-zing\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Magidson and Jeremy Elster: Zing Zing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josh Magidson and Jeremy Elster, both 30<br>\n<\/strong><strong>Company: <\/strong>Zing Zing<br>\n<strong>Web: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zing-zing.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.zing-zing.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese is one of the UK&rsquo;s most popular takeaway cuisines, with the national market estimated to be worth &pound;1.4bn. Despite this, Josh Magidson noticed that the quality of food and service wasn&rsquo;t always up to scratch across the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Fuelled by an in depth knowledge of the takeaway market &ndash; he founded the online food ordering platform and <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2010\/97-eatstudent-co-uk\/\">Startups 100-featured Eatstudent.co.uk<\/a>, which he sold to Just Eat in 2010 &ndash; Magidson partnered with Mark Schlagman and cordon bleu-trained expert in oriental cooking Jeremy Elster (Pang) to launch Zing Zing.<\/p>\n<p>Started in May 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2016\/27-zing-zing\/\">and having placed 27th in this year&rsquo;s Startups 100<\/a> Zing Zing offers a high-end takeaway service where meals feature &ldquo;a modern and healthy twist&rdquo;. While the business only delivers within a two-mile radius of its Kentish Town and Finsbury Park locations, it has already secured a database of 40,000 customers. Since launch, 170,000 orders have been placed in what Zing Zing claims is an average delivery time of just 33 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the takeaway secured &pound;1.6m in a 457% overfunded round on Crowdcube. The funding is being used to fuel its &ldquo;aggressive expansion&rdquo; across London and the UK, with plans to open three more stores in the capital underway.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image&nbsp;&copy;Peter Searle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Magidson and Jeremy Elster, both 30 Company: Zing Zing Web: www.zing-zing.co.uk Chinese is one of the UK&rsquo;s most popular takeaway cuisines, with the national market estimated to be worth &pound;1.4bn. Despite this, Josh Magidson noticed that the quality of food and service wasn&rsquo;t always up to scratch across the industry. 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