Team News Riveting
Bengaluru, January 1
The Year 2020 ended on a positive note for food delivery as agencies on the job registered a record by serving food at the doorstep.
Due to lockdown, the home food delivery was the way for many to welcome the New Year inside their houses with delicious food while for the restaurants it was an opportunity to recover economically after pandemic.
While the major cities slowly returned to pre-COVID numbers in delivery, tier-2 and tier-3 cities began to surpass them. New Year’s Eve turned out to be a cherry on the cake, as restrictions and curfews were placed in multiple cities, due to which people stayed inside.
It turned out to be the best for Swiggy and Zomato, with both companies recording their highest orders per minute.
Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal tweeted that the company reached a peak of 4,254 orders per minute while Swiggy, sources said, crossed 5,500 orders per minute on NYE. Swiggy’s CEO Vivek Sunder told a news channel that it was the best day the company had.
A Swiggy spokesperson said that traffic increased by 100 per cent during dinnertime, with Tier 2 and 3 cities like Jaipur and Vizag increasing by almost 200 per cent. It added that Tier 3 and 4 cities such as Berhampur, Rourkela and Karimnagar saw a 150-200 per cent growth, which was higher than what it observed in the metros.
