The Dynamic Duo, creators of Eat & Out

There is this incredible energy between Myke Penseyres and Massaki Chraiti. The dynamic duo newly graduated from the Geneva School of Economics and Management here talk about their work, their passion and the future. Eat & Out was launched by them it is an application which every noon there is an offer in an establishment near the university of Geneva. Since the end of March. Tuesday noon, the Sandwich House offered a sandwich for a purchased menu. The evening offers vary: for example two hot drinks for the price of a Tuesday at Muller's Factory, entries to be won for the Geneva Gaming Convention this Wednesday, reductions for bowling at La Praille Thursday.

What is your app about? Our app offers 2 daily deals for students: One in a restaurant nearby the university for lunch and a fun activity for the evening. We organize meetings with our members to improve the panel of proposals," says Myke. Who is a vegetarian? Who would like a bowling party? All opinions are taken into account. The idea is to make them an offer. It is not a choice; it is to be taken or left. You decide in ten seconds if you like the restaurant of the day, and you are there in five minutes’ maximum. It takes a great variety of places to please everyone. "

What got you into entrepreneurship? We’ve always been excited about the idea of tackling new challenges while creating our own project. Moreover, we haven't been too enthusiastic about working in a big organization where hierarchy is absolute either. It is essential for us to have a lot of flexibility in order to work with pleasure and what's better than to be your own boss?

Could you tell us more about your app? For users, our app eat&out is a new way to discover new places while saving (decision) time and money!For our partners, it is an innovative way to communicate to students and have direct feedbacks on what they offer. Moreover, they know on which specific day there will have more clients.

 Who is it for? Our app is mainly for students but it is open and usable by everyone :) We write in the description of the offer whenever you will need to be a student in order to enjoy the deal.

What is the best piece of advice you ever got?It is a well-known quote from the movie “les bronzés font du ski”: “Forget that you stand no chance. Go for it! If there is a misunderstanding, it might work.”

How do you see the app in the future? In the near future (February-September 2017), we will add quite a bit of new functionality! There will be two additional tabs, respectively “Event” and “Deal”. The event tab will promote events such as free dance lessons for the eat&out community, free entrance to festivals, ski passes and transport to the station from the uni etc.The deal tab will promote special offers from our partner who are not in the food or leisure industry.We are also adding comments, direct feedback, notifications and much more!

What’s the next challenge for your generation? One of the next challenges our generation will face is to comprehend that there is not only one way to success. Everyone has a different ability and thus a different approach! We will need to take that into account in our future society and organizations.

What's next for you? We will carry on developing eat&out and expand it, while also working on our other project: MykiStudio. We have created a few months ago this video production company for promotional and educational purposes. We are also working on a daily shopping offer to come by February and on a dance course offer. We are also starting our own events in November. Notably coffee and wine tastings. We have 45 partners, and our application has more than 2600 users. Work, work, work and a lot of fun too :)

To find out more about eat and out visit the site Eat &Out

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