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Downdetector, a platform that collects status reports from a series of sources, recorded 3,619 reports of outage against Zomato at 2:05 PM and 771 against Swiggy at 2:21 PM
Twitter posts were flooded with complaints from users unable to place orders or browse menus and listings.
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In the past three months, Zomato has underperformed the market by falling nearly 40 per cent, as compared to a 0.4 per cent rise on the S&P BSE Sensex.
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He said food delivery persons can reach the destination within 10 minutes only by 'driving rashly and dangerously'
Market sentiment, inadequate data and unsustainable unit economics are stacked against the acquisition plan and 10-minute food delivery.
Zomato's investment in Mukunda has come amid the food delivery's announcement to launch a 10-minute delivery service
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Zomato on Monday promised to deliver food within ten minutes of ordering, arguably becoming the first company in the world to do so. So, what does it mean for the food delivery ecosystem?
Restaurants are, at the moment, averse to the 10-minute delivery plan
Online food delivery platform Zomato was on Tuesday forced to clarify over the road safety of its delivery partners as its plans to start instant 10-minute food delivery faced backlash on social media. Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, who had on Monday announced the company's plans to start a pilot of 'Zomato Instant' with four stations in Gurugram from next month, took to social media to clarify that there are no penalties for late deliveries and no incentives for on-time deliveries for both 10-minute and 30-minute deliveries. The 10-minute delivery will be for specific nearby locations, popular and standardised menu only, he said in a series of tweets. He was responding to criticism directed to the company over its plans of starting instant deliveries as it would put the delivery partners at risk on the roads. In a post on Twitter, Congress Lok Sabha MP Karti P Chidambaram said, "This is absurd! It's going to put undue pressure on the delivery personnel, who are not employees & ..