The Halal Dining Club

What The Halal Dining Club does

The Halal Dining Club was a UK-based platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in Borehamwood, operating as a one-stop mobile application for discovering, booking, reviewing, and earning loyalty rewards from halal-certified restaurants. The intended customer base was Muslim diners in the United Kingdom seeking a curated restaurant-discovery experience combined with a membership/rewards mechanism, addressing a gap in mainstream restaurant apps that did not specifically filter for halal compliance.

The company raised a single disclosed funding round of approximately $262,156 on 2016-08-05 from unknown investors, and was led by CEO Siddika Jaffer. Beyond the 2016 capital event, no additional funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, hires, or geographic expansions are documented in the available material. Headcount was reported in the 1-10 employee band, consistent with an early-stage or small-scale operation.

The current state of the company indicates operational dormancy. The domain HalalDiningClub.com is actively listed for sale on HugeDomains.com at $8,795 (with a 24-month interest-free payment plan option of $366.46/month), and the underlying source material classifies the company as "closed." No active app, website content, social presence, management disclosures, or revenue figures are available, leaving the company's present commercial status effectively as a residual domain asset rather than a functioning business.

Name

The Halal Dining Club

Website

https://halaldiningclub.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Halal Dining Club was a UK-based mobile platform, founded in 2015, that enabled Muslim diners to discover, book, review, and earn loyalty rewards at halal-certified restaurants. The company appears no longer operational, with its primary domain listed for sale.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant Discovery and Loyalty App

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialty Membership Clubs (Category-Focused) (CRAEADAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Halal & Middle Eastern Grocery Stores (CRAHAFAC)

Keywords

• Halal restaurant discovery
• Dining loyalty rewards
• Restaurant booking app
• Halal food platform
• Restaurant review app

Headquarters

HQ city

Borehamwood

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Halal Dining Club operated a mobile app functioning as a one-stop platform for discovering, booking, reviewing, and earning loyalty rewards from Halal restaurants. Founded in 2015 and based in Borehamwood, United Kingdom, the service aggregated halal restaurant information and provided a loyalty rewards program tailored for the Muslim dining community. The company's domain (HalalDiningClub.com) is currently listed for sale on HugeDomains at $8,795, suggesting the underlying business is no longer actively operating.

Product overview

The Halal Dining Club is represented solely by the domain name HalalDiningClub.com being offered for sale on HugeDomains. No operational business, products, or services are described in the source material.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Halal Dining Club Mobile App

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• CrescentRating: Halal-friendly travel and dining rating/certification platform; addresses the same halal dining audience with structured ratings rather than reviews and loyalty.
• Muslim Pro: Widely used Muslim lifestyle app that has added halal restaurant locator functionality; competes for the same user base with a much larger installed base.
• HalalEat: Halal restaurant discovery and food platform targeting the same UK/EU halal diner segment as The Halal Dining Club.

Broad incumbents

• Just Eat: UK-leading food delivery and restaurant discovery platform; competes for the same halal diner attention with broader restaurant supply and substantially greater scale.
• Tripadvisor: Global restaurant discovery and review platform; competes for the same user intent (finding and reviewing restaurants) that the Halal Dining Club app was built around.
• Yelp: Consumer restaurant review and discovery platform; mirrors the review-centric feature of the Halal Dining Club app at significantly greater scale.
• OpenTable: Restaurant booking and discovery platform; directly comparable on the booking functionality The Halal Dining Club included in its one-stop app.
• Deliveroo: Major UK food delivery and restaurant discovery app; overlaps with The Halal Dining Club's restaurant discovery/booking use case for a much larger user base.

Direct peers

• HalalTrip: Halal-focused travel and dining platform offering restaurant discovery and reviews, overlapping directly with The Halal Dining Club's halal restaurant discovery concept.
• Zabihah: Long-running halal restaurant directory and discovery platform; the most direct comparable to The Halal Dining Club's stated mission of helping users find halal dining options.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/halaldining
• Facebookfacebook.com/thehalaldiningclub

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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