Zomato Food Delivery Agents Received Tips Worth Rs.97 Crore On New Year Eve
This New Year”s Eve has become an unforgettable night for food delivery app agents as customers across the country generously bestowed them with bountiful tips, with several food and grocery delivery firms witnessing their highest-ever order volume.
According to Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal, their delivery agents received tips to the tune of Rs 97 lakh on New Year”s Eve, achieving a record-breaking number of orders on its app.
The food delivery app received numerous orders, and the customers generously tipped our agents too, given that there are over 320,000 delivery partners across Zomato and its quick commerce business, Blinkit, serving customers, he said.
Deepinder Goyal tweeted, “I love you, India. You’ve tipped over Rs. 97 lakhs till now to the delivery partners serving you tonight.”
Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa said the platform witnessed its highest ever single-day orders and orders per minute. “We have already hit the highest: ever order in a day, order per minute, soft drinks and tonic water sold in a day, chips sold in a day, and tips given to riders in a day. And it’s not slowing down,” Dhindsa said in a post.
Another food delivery app, Swiggy, also revealed that their delivery agents made more money than last year. “NYE ’24 broke all records across Swiggy and Swiggy Instamart,” said Rohit Kapoor, CEO, Swiggy Food Marketplace.
The company witnessed almost a million active users on the Swiggy app in the last hour, with a peak of 1,244 biryanis ordered per minute, reaching over 480,000. The top three cities in biryani orders were Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai.
The firm’s quick commerce business, Instamart, carried out orders 1.6 times more per minute than the previous record high during the World Cup final and surpassed the last New Year”s Eve orders by evening. Swiggy said more than 10 million people placed orders for others this year, and Kapoor announced free deliveries throughout the night across quick commerce and food orders.
