New Delhi (October 4th): Train journey, especially, long distance travel is a painful endeavour from booking ticket, tracking PNR to arranging for food. But this has become an old story with portals like travelkhana.com coming to your rescue.

In a press conference held yesterday, the CEO of travelkhana.com and other top officials threw light on the services offered by the company.
Pushpinder Singh, CEO and co-founder of travelkhana.com presided over the meeting. He welcomed the press and PR people and described how the company had grown by leaps and bounds and won several awards for its superior service. The dedication to quality service has been recognized by award for the travel website of the year 2014 by IAMAI and the Startup of the year 2013 by CNBC TV 18.

“Food delivery has been made convenient and efficient thanks to our tie-ups with hundreds of restaurants at various places,” said Pushpinder Singh. “Enjoy the cuisine of each city and become both a well-travelled, as well as a well-fed person,” he said.

The company has also ventured into peripheral service like checking train seat availability, booking tickets, tracking PNR status, as well as access to rail timetable.

One of the best and most recent services offered by TravelKhana is to place an order for foods by SMS. So, if you are travelling in train and have no access to online services, you can now place an order by a simple SMS.

TravelKhana has tied up with txtWeb, which is an app that delivers text-based applications. By enabling booking using txtWeb, customers can place orders for delivery of food via SMS. All that is required is that you send an SMS to travelkhana.com at the number 51115.

In the SMS, you need to provide the date of travel, your PNR number, the choice of food items and the station where it needs to be delivered. You can order food from a choice of popular restaurants at railway stops. Travelkhana.com offers cash on delivery, as well as special group bookings

Manish Maheshwari, managing director, txtWeb said, “Our application makes things simple for all passengers. By this partnership, we enable access of TravelKhana’s services to anyone with a mobile phone”.

According to Pushpinder Singh, “Earlier train passengers were at the mercy of pantry cars, which served boring, insipid food. With travelkhana.com and its mobile service, they have a total access to a variety of the choicest food from popular restaurants on the go.”

Travelkhana.com provides to the rail passengers a variety of cuisine like Mughlai, continental, Italian, Chinese, Punjabi and even special food like vegetarian and Jain food. It also provides a choice of several snacks and beverages. The website caters to 6000 trains serving 500 stations throughout the country.

The portal concentrates on the following: hygiene, availability and flavour. “We cater to passengers no matter what time of the day or night they board the train,” said Pushpinder Singh.