TechCabal · Feb 2025
TechCabal’s 2025 food-delivery roundup highlights ChowCentral as a Lagos cloud kitchen serving multiple neighborhoods and selling meals starting around ₦2,000.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Lagos-based YC S23 food-tech company operating an asset-light, delivery-only virtual restaurant model under the ChowCentral/500chow brand, with a mobile app for ordering and wallet-based checkout.
Primary product
500chow / ChowCentral food-ordering and delivery app with delivery-only restaurant brands
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Lagos, Nigeria
Team size
14
Industry
Restaurants
Sub-industry
Food delivery / cloud kitchen / virtual restaurant chain
Offices
0 jobs at Chow Central Inc
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed / convertible note
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Convertible Note · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$500K
Aug 2023 · Y Combinator
Jan 2022 · Ventures Platform
Mission-driven and operationally focused on speed, affordability, quality, and an asset-light model for African food delivery.
Pricing
Pay-per-order meal pricing, with meals publicly described in the roughly ₦1,500–₦4,000 range and wallet-based checkout in the app.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$1.5M annual revenue (estimated)
Estimated monthly visits
4K
TechCabal · Feb 2025
TechCabal’s 2025 food-delivery roundup highlights ChowCentral as a Lagos cloud kitchen serving multiple neighborhoods and selling meals starting around ₦2,000.
HireTop · Jul 2024
Profile describing ChowCentral’s asset-light virtual restaurant strategy, underutilized kitchen partnerships, founders, and reported monthly revenue and gross margin.
TechCabal · Aug 2023
In-depth profile of ChowCentral’s history, from 500Chow to its 2022 relaunch, including its central-kitchen model, pricing, funding lead, target customers, and competitors.
TechCabal · Aug 2023
YC announced ChowCentral in its Summer 2023 batch; the piece says the startup was founded by Tosin Onafuye, Christopher Obasi, and Adeyemi Onafuye and was already doing over $80k in monthly revenue.