Introduction

As long as humans seek to simplify our lives daily, there’s no doubt that we will continue to explore the many discoveries with Machine intelligence also known as Artificial Intelligence (AI). The ability of a machine to think like humans, analyze situations and propose the best possible solutions is the idea of Artificial Intelligence.

In as much as we seek to make everything in our lives easier by investing into artificial intelligence, we must also think about what gross advancement in that field will do to the unemployment situations in the world. Most people are still reluctant to accept this phenomenon. It is believed that if machines can function as humans then there will be no need to bear the extra cost of hiring more people to do work. Typically when these machines have been programmed to be very efficient and productive. 

However as people have their reservations about the topic, it seems that AI has come to stay. In many industries all over the world, we have instances of some form of artificial intelligence to help simplify a process. Even our phones have some form Artificial Intelligence. Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant etc. are one of the closest forms to us.

Artificial Intelligence in the Online Food Industry

According to an article on Tech Emergence, The food service industry is an economic staple generating billions of dollars in annual revenue and representing 2.1 percent of the U.S. GDP in 2016. As a result AI is making its way into this industry.

In Ghana, food ordering apps like Pizarea have inculcated Chabots and other apps that receive customer requests and process these requests into personalised orders. They have also used AI technology to help keep them updated on new orders coming in, orders that have been completed and customers that are yet to be served. It has created a rather efficient way of managing the business. Other companies like JumiaFood and other food delivery companies have also inculcated some form of AI into their business. Currently drones are even being used for delivery.

Outside Ghana, according to Tech Emergence, restaurants are using AI-driven robots to increase capacity and speed of food preparation and delivery. Developers are apparently designing applications which use AI to help consumers choose meals based on their eating preferences. Restaurants are also integrating AI-driven Kiosks to reduce customer waiting time and enhance the customer ordering experience.

Artificial Intelligence in Other Industries

Aside online food ordering, AI is helping a lot in the health sector. There are AI systems that are able to predict up to about 90% whether people will commit suicide or not. In transportation, companies are running trials for driver-less cars. Some companies are also trying to come up with ways to manage roads, such that cars with car-mounted cellphone cameras to snap photos of street conditions to determine which roads are good and which ones need repair according to The Mercury News.

In every sector or industry artificial intelligence has come to stay. Embracing its advantages and possible disadvantages and learning to appreciate what it brings to our present and future is the sure way to go.

Source: Tech Emergence,  Mercury News

I’m sure everyone has a particular local dish they can call their favorite. I know my favorite is Ampesi with some very well-seasoned Kobi. Seriously speaking even talking about it is making me drool! Like me everyone else has their favorite!

Every ethnic group in Ghana has some particular popular local dish that are generic to them. The following represent these groups.

GA Local Dishes

Visit any typical GA neighborhood and there’s no way you wouldn’t find GA Kenkey coupled with hot pepper and fried fish. It’s a favorite of the GA’s and there’s no denying that they are the best at making it. Some restaurants on Pizarea that serve GA Kenkey as a local dish include, H-Street Xpress, Everyone’s Kitchen, Kenkey House and others.

Ashanti Local dishes

Akans in general love their Fufu. Indeed Fufu with any soup either light soup, groundnut soup or Palm nut soup with an ample amount of meat would sound like heaven the ears of an Ashanti. It is also a popular local dish with other ethnic groups. On Pizarea, restaurants like Living Room, Village Bar and African Cho’Bar. They make fufu just like mama made it!

The Fante Local Dish

The Fantes are famous for their Ampesi. I’m no Fante but you could see how I described it as my favorite meal. It’s quite nutritious, complete with a combination of carbohydrates, iron and proteins. This local dish is prominent with other Akans including people from the Eastern Region and Brong Ahafo Region. Klassy Pot and Living Room are restaurants on Pizarea you can get this meal.

The Ewe Local Dish

Akple is the traditional food of the Ewes. It’s made in its own special way served with Ademe. The ewes also love Banku and Okro Stew or Soup. Banku and Okro Stew is a popular local dish with other ethnic groups in the country. It’s a very popular menu item in restaurants. Restaurants such as Hajia Apenkwa, Living Room, Everyone’s Kitchen, and Mangoase Restaurant on Pizarea serve this meal.

Northern Local Dishes 

Among the three northern regions, the most popular local dish beloved by all is Tuozaafi and Ayoyo. There’s also Tubaani served in the Upper West Region of the country. It has become a local favorite! Even in the capital Accra, more and more restaurants keep adding it to their menus. Restaurants like Hajia Apenkwa serve Tuozaafi.

Among others, people love Waakye, Jollof, Aprapransa, Acheke etc… These meals cut across the various ethnic groups. However the great thing about Ghanaians is their willingness to explore. All these meals have become household names in every home!

It seems the competition between restaurants in Ghana is getting keener and keener! Most restaurants currently are adopting the use of exciting promos to retain old customers and attract new ones. It is an established fact that most Ghanaians have gotten accustomed to eating out. The idea of going to a nice environment to enjoy good food and a beautiful view is fast catching up to people.

Most restaurants in Ghana like Eddys Pizza and Papa’s Pizza provide great food and other side attraction like Live Band Music etc. just to liven the atmosphere. Other restaurants are found scrambling for spaces in the country’s malls. Restaurants like Barcelos, Pizzavella, Enda and Rose Joy Restaurant can be found in almost all the malls. The malls attract a lot of customers including expatriates from abroad who are more accustomed to eating out. Malls have therefore become ideal locations for restaurants in Ghana.

Promotions By Restaurants in Ghana

In the race to gain new customers, to increase profit margins and to kick out the competition most restaurants in Ghana are now running promos. Below you would find a list of restaurants in Ghana that are currently running promos.

Papa’s Pizza         

Papa’s Pizza Ghana is currently running two exciting promos. On Mondays, there’s a promo they call ‘Monday Madness’ where you buy any large size pizza plus 1L coke for only GHS 40.00 available at all their branches. It’s a great deal for small groups on a busy Monday!

Papa’s Pizza also runs another promo on Tuesdays only at their Ringroad branch. They call this promo “Buy One Get One Free”; buy any pizza from Papa’s Pizza Ringroad and get an additional one for free with delivery inclusive. They certainly give their customers a tremendous Tuesday!

 Eddys Pizza

Eddys Pizza call their promo “Buy and Get One Free”. For any number of pizzas you buy on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, you get an extra one free. That is to say to if you buy 2 boxes of pizza you still get one free. However, this promo is only available for pick-up orders. They’ve got their customers smiling…

Marwako Fast food

I doubt most people have tried Marwako Pizza… Truthfully after my first taste I wondered why I hadn’t tried it previously. It was that good! Well, it looks like they want to spread the news of how great their pizza actually tastes. Marwako is currently running a promo every Wednesday; Buy any Pizza from Marwako and get a Margarita Pizza free in addition!

Biggles Bakes

Cake lovers are not left out! Biggles Bakes is currently running a promo from 28^th July to the 31^st of December 2018. When you order any wedding cake from 2 Tier Cakes to 5 tier Cakes, you get free cake for your bridal shower. If you are planning on getting married anytime soon, I suggest you order from Biggles Bakes.

Online Ordering Promos 

Pizarea.com, one of the fastest growing online food ordering platforms in Ghana also have a promo they call Pizarea Rush Hour. It’s a promo that runs on the first Monday of every month where from the period within 7am to 12pm, delivery is free for any order that comes through the platform.

They have also adopted a new promo where they plan to reward their most loyal customers at the end of every month. This reward could be in the form of free food from Pizarea or free delivery. I suggest people start ordering to increase your chances of winning. The more you order the higher your chances of winning!

It’s a great time to be ordering from these restaurants in Ghana. You either get the opportunity of getting good food at relatively affordable prices or you get freebies. Ghana ay3 d3 k3k3!!!

Online Ordering and Delivery in Ghana has indeed come to stay. The widespread reception of this global trend is definitely undeniable. Most of these online ordering applications seek to deliver convenience to their consumers; luckily people have bought into the idea.

There is no doubt that there is a huge market for delivery in Ghana. Especially within Accra and Tema, people have gotten accustomed to getting things delivered at their own convenience. With a simple click people are able to churn out requests and have it delivered anywhere at any time. As a result of the growing demand most upcoming businesses are operating delivery firms. Some of these firms include Jumia, Mr. Delivery, Somayen, Hello Delivery etc. Others that deal in goods supply have also added delivery services as part of the services they render. From clothes, wardrobes, shoes, food, laptops, phones and other accessories delivery is available.

Delivery Categories

There are a lot of goods that are deliverable. Most businesses are skewed towards particular goods. Some of these categories include:

Food Delivery In Ghana  

For many who have jobs that make it completely impossible to get food out of the office, Food Ordering apps like Pizarea, seem to be a godsend! They can sit at the comfort of their offices and have their meals delivered to them within the shortest possible time.

It’s amazing how generally restaurants are either signing on to these platforms or getting their own bikers to help out with delivery orders. Delivery in Ghana has certainly become important profit wise such that to increase profits, offering delivery services has become a necessity.

Clothing Accessories Delivery In Ghana 

In Ghana where to buy affordable clothes one has to travel all the way to Kantamanto or Madina, apps that offer clothing delivery services certainly come in handy. Sites like Kikuu have made a name for themselves in Ghana by selling and delivering clothes and other accessories at affordable prices. It is no wonder that most people are ordering from these platforms.

Electronics (Phones, Gadgets, Laptops etc.)

For items like this being able to access various prices from various shops on the same platform saves people a lot of time. After sorting out their wants, they are given the chance to choose whether to have the items delivered or not. Most people in recent times opt for delivery because of the convenience it promises. Online companies like Tonaton and OLX provide such services.

The Future of Delivery 

What do you suppose the future of delivery will be? In this technology advancing world where things change consistently and rapidly one can never really know. What we do know however is that the changes that will be coming in will certainly be exciting. Currently some companies in the US are thinking of doing delivery using robots, others have already commenced drone delivery. In Rwanda, delivery of blood is done using drones. In Ghana Pizarea was the first to bring up the idea of food delivery using drones. This concept was well accepted by Ghanaians as a viable option for delivery. There are more innovative apps like the Rider App developed by Pizarea which will give customers the ability to input their GPS location directly. The idea is to make it easy for the riders to locate them without hassle. With such innovations coming on-board, delivery in Ghana certainly has a bright future.

Order food online from any Pizza Hut branch in Ghana and have it delivered to you wherever you are! Pizza hut, well known for their Italian-American cuisine menu is an American restaurant chain and international franchise with branches all over the world. Since its opening in Ghana a few years ago, Pizza Hut has secured a total of 5 branches in the Accra mall, Achimota mall, Tema,Spintex and East Legon with a new branch opening soon in Osu a neighborhood in central Accra, Ghana, known for its busy commercial, restaurant and nightlife activities.

Pizza hut manages to consistently maintain its standards and reputation as one of the best pizza restaurants in Ghana by investing in the quality of their food and services.By this, a lot of value is placed on using only the healthiest  ingredients in making their food on a daily basis. Pizza hut has also expanded its menu from just pizza and pasta to other goodies such as chicken wings, potato wedges, garlic bread, barbecue chicken spin rolls, cheesy pops etc.

Apart from the usual dine in and takeaway options, customers can now have their meals delivered to them in the comfort of their homes,schools and offices with ease. Their properly trained delivery staff are equipped with all that is needed to treat all orders professionally. With an effective turnaround time they guarantee that your pizza would arrive within 45 minutes or less and might even be free sometimes. They deliver within Accra and Tema at really good prices.

Pizza Hut is currently running an amazing promotion that has all Ghanaians marvelled. It is dubbed as the  ‘Epic’ promo. The purpose of this promotional activity is to introduce the new size of their pizza which is 16 inches and is sold from 45 to 65 ghs and available in all flavours. They also offer other exciting packages.  With just 29ghs one can get a small size pizza,french fries plus a bottle of 500ml coke, 2 medium sized pizzas for 45ghs or 2 medium size pizzas,french fries,chicken wings plus garlic twist for only 79ghs!

Being on Pizarea, customers are able to call Pizza Hut to place an order of their favourite Pizza Hut meal to have it delivered to them. The food delivery is fast, safe, convenient and reliable. Whether at home or in the office, with Pizarea your delicious pizza can always be delivered to you. Pizza Hut Ghana is now a household name and it has indeed come to stay.
Pizza Hut – No One Outpizzas the Hut –

Ghana is a mother- no two ways- and she feeds her young. She is blessed with multiculturalism, an indication of a chance to discover and uncover what each tribe has got to offer, especially lifestyle and food. Being endowed with fertile soil and a great tropical climate, Ghana offers an assortment of tastes that give nationals a chance to explore the pleasures that life has to offer.

Ghanaian foods are mainly carbohydrates served with a sizeable portion of protein, vitamins and minerals. Thus, a person may eat a high-carb main meal with a vitamin-packed sauce, stew or soup, engulfed with sizeable portions of meat or fish.

Rice and gari are staples within the country which are processed and cooked in different ways to attain a diverse variety of delicacies served as main meals. Major foods in Ghana include round foods made from milled or pounded tubers and cereals such as fufu, a popular Akan delicacy made from pounded cassava and plantain; tuozaafi which originates from Northern Ghana; banku which traces its origin to the Ga tribe; kokonte; gari eba; omotuo (rice balls) and kenkey from both  the Ga and Fante tribes.

These round foods are best served with soups such as groundnut soup, ebunuebunu, chicken light soup, dry fish light soup, beef light soup, palm nut soup, fisherman’s soup, okro soup, ayoyo soup among others. Among these, tuozaafi is best taken with ayoyo sauce. Kenkey and banku may also be eaten with hot grinded red, black or green pepper sauce accompanied with meat, fish or fried egg.

Other main dishes include boiled or fried yam, rice, cassava, cocoyam and plantain (ampesi). These may be eaten with stews and sauces. Such stews include kontomire, a nutritious delicacy rumoured to possess healing properties to diseases such as anaemia; tomato stew with meat, fish or mushroom; agushie stew; assorted vegetable stew; garden egg stew; meat stew or even fante- fante, which is a fresh fish stew by the Fante tribe. One pot dishes such as the nation’s favourite jollof rice, garifortor, acherker and mpotompoto are also delicious main meals that cannot be overlooked. Another meal enjoyed by Ghanaians is boiled beans with fried ripe plantain glazed with palm oil and sprinkled with crisp sweet-scented gari, a pocket-friendly meal available in every region.

Ghanaian folks are generally known for their hospitality and friendliness.  It is easy to walk into neighbour’s house and get served with a portion of any of the above-mentioned meals. The trick is to be a nice person; the opposite works for people who are trying to lose weight too (just saying). But if your aim is to eat, try keeping up a smile.

By: Juliet Agyapong