Barely four months after cloud kitchen startup FoodCourt suspended operations, another Nigerian food-tech startup has shut its doors, deepening concerns over whether full-stack food delivery businesses can survive the country’s worsening economic climate.
GoLemon, the Lagos-based grocery delivery platform founded by former Paystack employees, has stopped accepting customer orders and will completely wind down its customer support operations on August 2 after failing to secure fresh funding.
The latest shutdown suggests the challenge facing Nigeria’s food-tech sector extends beyond individual companies to the economics of businesses that own and operate the entire supply chain.
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GoLemon’s closure follows FoodCourt’s operational pause in March after months of unpaid salaries triggered staff strikes and mounting debts forced the shutdown of its final kitchens in Lagos and Abuja. While FoodCourt says it is restructuring and hopes to return, its suspension exposed the
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