Food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato saw a spike in orders on New Year’s Eve with cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai placing curbs on celebrations amid new COVID variant.
Both the foodtech unicorns said around 9 pm on Friday that they had crossed 2 million orders for the day.Zomato saw 6,000 orders per minute at around 7pm — its highest ever — on Friday and it expected the number to shoot up further and peak at 8:30 pm, according to Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal.
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Rival Swiggy tweeted just a few minutes later that it had hit 6,600 orders per minute. — Deepsekhar Choudhury/Business Standard
