About FoodieHub
Last updated 16 August 2026
FoodieHub is a campus ordering system for the canteens at Aditya University, Surampalem. It exists because the break is short and the queue is not.
The problem it solves
Everybody on campus is free at the same time, so everybody arrives at the counter at the same time. The kitchen can cook far more food than it can take orders for — the bottleneck is the counter, not the stove.
Ordering ahead moves the decision off the counter and spreads the kitchen's work across the morning instead of fifteen frantic minutes. You order between lectures, walk up, show a token, and pay.
What it deliberately does not do
- No delivery. You collect. Nobody is riding a scooter across campus for a ₹15 chai.
- No online payment. You pay the canteen at the counter, as you always have. FoodieHub never holds your money.
- No commission. A canteen keeps every rupee it takes. Delivery platforms charge 20–30%; on a ₹40 plate that is the margin.
- No surge pricing, no service fee. The price in the app is the price on the board.
How it pays for itself
Canteens can buy a promotional banner slot — on the home screen, in the cart, or on the order tracking page — priced per day and agreed in advance. That is the only money FoodieHub earns. Students pay nothing, and a canteen that never advertises pays nothing.
Advertising is always labelled as such. A paid banner is marked Promoted or Ad, and buying one never changes where a canteen appears in search or in the list of canteens.
Who built it
FoodieHub was designed and built by Vijaya Pardhu.
For canteens
Any canteen on campus can join. You get a live order queue, your own menu with photos and per-day opening hours, sales analytics, and a token scanner — with no commission and nothing to install. Apply here, and an administrator will be in touch.