Spooner Case Study
Visual Food Discovery & Restaurant Booking

How Xicom built Spooner — a cross-platform mobile app that lets food lovers search 10,00,000+ dishes, book restaurant tables, discover deals, and share food experiences across iOS and Android.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT

A visual guide to the best dishes and restaurants in your area.

Spooner is a visual guide which offers an easy way to discover the best dishes and restaurants in your area. It is an international company that delivers up-to-date dining and restaurant information to online and mobile customers in select cities across the world. It has more focus on searching particular food or dish.

Spooner believes it's all about dishes and not just restaurants. Spooner is a must mobile app for foodies. People across the world love to eat, and some of these people are real 'foodies' — they consume millions of meals at restaurants of different types.

Spooner approached Xicom to build mobile applications that would enable Android and iPhone users to easily search for food and restaurants by variety of keyword-driven parameters, make reservations and map their way to those locations. Spooner also helps you share your food experience with dish ratings, photos and reviews.

Spooner mobile app
CLIENT
Spooner Media Private Ltd
INDUSTRY
Food & Restaurant Discovery
STACK
Objective-C · Java · HTML5 · CSS3 · CakePHP · Postgres SQL
PLATFORMS
iOS · Android · Web
THE PROBLEM

Key Challenges

Spooner wanted to build a mobile cross-platform application that would enable diners across the globe to use keywords on their mobile devices to search for restaurants based on a wide variety of information like food name, food type, specials, location, themes and much more.

The Spooner project involved a massive volume of data based on the huge number of diverse restaurants in all major cities, as well as distinct keyword-driven data types to make it easy for diners to find exactly what they wanted. This whole system also required an inbuilt reservation system, social media connections, and a navigation utility for mobile users to reach their destinations.

Major challenges to develop Spooner could be summarized as under:

  • Search thousands of restaurants based on authentic user reviews and discover great places to eat around you.
  • Search 10,00,000+ dishes and cuisines. Spooner is a visual guide to good food and where to find it, in your area.
  • Reserve a table, manage bookings, find amazing deals and save every time you book a table using Spooner. It's quick and easy!
  • Discover amazing deals, offers and discounts offered by restaurants. See latest events and food festivals in your area.
THE SOLUTION

Proposition & Solution

  • Xicom designed and developed Android and iOS mobile apps and a representative landing page website for Spooner. We have used latest cutting edge tools and technologies while developing the Spooner project.
  • Xicom has worked hand-in-hand with Spooner founders to design and develop mobile applications that would accommodate the member restaurant content and informational offerings while simultaneously delivering an attractive, intuitive user experience for customers looking for information about those establishments and activities.
  • Obviously there is a relationship between customers and restaurants which was to be defined by specific content types tied to keywords, including venue name, location, menu items, entertainment offerings and more. Additionally, Xicom incorporated special offers and coupons, a reservation system, social media connections and mapping services to guide would-be diners to their desired restaurant.
  • The important thing was to create a mobile user experience which make it easy for prospective customers to quickly find the right restaurant for their particular interests, choice and location.
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Dishes & Cuisines
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Restaurants
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Platforms Delivered
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On-Time Delivery

Three core experiences. One food discovery app.

Spooner connects food lovers, restaurants, and diners through a single mobile experience — search by dish, book a table, and share the moment.

DISCOVER

Search by dish

  • Search 10,00,000+ dishes & cuisines
  • Keyword-driven restaurant search
  • Authentic user reviews & photos
  • Filter by location, theme & specials
SHARE

Rate & review

  • Share dish ratings & photos
  • Write reviews for restaurants
  • Social media connections
  • Discover local events & festivals

How we worked together.

Spooner worked with Xicom to deliver a global-grade mobile ecosystem — collaborating hand-in-hand with the founders on both the product vision and the technical execution.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Founder-led collaboration

Xicom worked hand-in-hand with the Spooner founders — designing and developing mobile applications that accommodate the member restaurant content and informational offerings.

The end goal was simple: deliver an attractive, intuitive user experience for customers looking for information about restaurants and their activities.

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Global-ready prototypes

The Android and iOS apps were envisioned and designed as working prototypes for an international audience — not just for the local area.

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Keyword-driven architecture

Content types tied to keywords — venue name, location, menu items, entertainment — formed the backbone of the search experience.

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Built-in extras

Special offers and coupons, a reservation system, social media connections, and mapping services were all integrated into the app.

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Delivered within timeframe

The team showed high commitment and completed the project smoothly — meeting all requirements and delivering within the timeframe provided.

Results & Benefits

The solution designed and developed by Xicom met all of the expectation of the Spooner promoters regarding the app and website and they are helping people to find the food and restaurant of their choice. Following were the key benefits that we as a contractor successfully provided to Spooner.

Spooner was delivered the product on time thus allowing them with appropriate time to market their product.

Spooner is extremely satisfied with the deliverables provided on time and within their budget.

New features introduced within the Spooner system were taken up and Xicom ensured the faster delivery for the same to take the system to the next level. This overall dedicated effort from Xicom along with the overall software quality increased the customer satisfaction level, thereby increasing our client's revenue and customer retention by huge margin.

The mobile applications developed by Xicom has gained very high reviews from its community of users, further strengthening Spooner's relationship with its customers.

Spooner was extremely satisfied with the Quality Assurance Analysis (QA) efforts provided by Xicom.

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During our interaction with the Xicom team we found that it is an extremely professional company with an expert team of designers and developers. It has demonstrated a high degree of flexibility and scalability to enable us meet the strategic goals. The team showed high level of commitment and completed the project in a very smooth manner meeting all the requirements and in the timeframe provided. We will definitely contact them for our other projects in future.

Founder
Spooner Media Private Ltd
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