New Delhi: Food delivery platform Zomato on Wednesday launched a new safety feature where users can now see the body temperature of their delivery partner on its app. Available on the order tracking screen, this feature will capture the temperature checked before the delivery partner picks up an order for delivery. “Checking delivery partner’s temperature […]
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Zomato acquires UberEats India for nearly Rs 2,500 crore
New Delhi: Zomato on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Uber’s Food Delivery Business in India in an all-stock deal and Uber will have 9.99 per cent stake in the Deepinder Goyal-led food delivery platform. According to sources close to the deal, it is in the range of over $350 million or nearly Rs 2,500 […]
Zomato lays off 541 staffers, says blame it on automation
New Delhi: Food delivery platform Zomato on Saturday said that it has laid off 541 people — 10 per cent of the company’s strength — across customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams. The reason behind the move is an improved Zomato platform with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven bots and automation in resolving customer queries that […]
Zomato’s ‘oregano’ tweet triggers hilarious responses
New Delhi: Home-grown restaurant search and delivery platform Zomato took to Twitter to share a joke that seems to have resonated with many who order pizza and collect the seasoning sachets of oregano and chilli flakes. Not in good taste. Dude.Grow up. — Surojeet (@subongo) September 3, 2019 The food delivery platform tweeted. Papa: […]
NRAI hits back at Zomato CEO with #ZoGoisNoGo campaign
New Delhi: A day after Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal taunted Rahul Singh, President of the National Restaurant Association of India, on Twitter and logged out of the restaurants’ #logout campaign against the “unethical” deep discounting practices of online food aggregators, Singh on Friday hit back at Goyal by starting a new campaign #ZoGoisNoGo. “We thank Dineout, […]
Watch: Zomato delivery boy sings ‘gori tera gaon bada pyara’ on customer’s request, video goes viral
New Delhi: A Zomato delivery boy’s soulful rendition of Bollywood number “Gori Tera Gaon Bada Pyara” has gone viral on Facebook after it was shared by a customer. Pranjit Haloi took the social media by storm with the “Chitchor” song just days after another video of a woman at a West Bengal railway station singing Lata […]
Stop #logout campaign, Zomato’s Founder Deepinder Goyal urges in tweetstorm – 2 min read
New Delhi: As hundreds of restaurants delisted from online food aggregators’ platform across the country, Zomato’s Founder Deepinder Goyal on Saturday requested restaurant owners to stop the #logout campaign. In a tweetstorm, Goyal said that young entrepreneurs (much like him) in the restaurant industry are feeling the pressure to such an extent that they had to […]
Zomato staff on indefinite strike in Bengal after allegedly made to deliver beef, pork
Kolkata (1 MIN READ): Food delivery staff of Zomato on Sunday went on an indefinite strike in West Bengal’s Howrah alleging they were made to deliver beef and pork dishes against their will. “We are on strike due to our payment rates and we have to deliver beef food items which is against our religious sentiments. […]
Cops warn man who cancelled Zomato order over ‘non-Hindu’ server
Jabalpur (1 MIN READ): Police in Madhya Pradesh have sent a notice to a man who cancelled his order from food ordering app Zomato because he was assigned a “non-Hindu” delivery man and then tweeted about it, triggering a debate over religious intolerance. Jabalpur’s Amit Shukla has been warned by the police that he could […]
Zomato, eatery fined Rs 55K for serving chicken instead of paneer
Pune: A consumer court here slapped a Rs 55,000 fine on food delivery platform Zomato along with a hotel for delivering non-vegetarian food to a lawyer who had ordered a vegetarian dish. According to media reports, the consumer court directed Zomato to pay the fine within 45 days to city-based lawyer Shanmukh Deshmukh who was delivered […]