Zepto Cafe hits 75,000 daily orders, marking a 50% month-on-month surge

Zepto Cafe has said it has surpassed 75,000 daily orders. The app was launched in December 2024

After groceries and other items of daily needs, the quick delivery trend is fast catching up in the food segment as firms are racing to serve it hot. They know that nothing can beat the feeling of opening a box of steaming hot noodles or biryani within ten minutes of ordering it.

 

Zepto Café has said it has surpassed 75,000 daily orders. The app was launched in December 2024.

 

“Four weeks ago, I put out my 2nd Zepto Café update when we hit 50,000 orders/day. Today, we’ve hit 75,000 orders/day! 50 per cent month-on-month growth,” the company’s co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO), Aadit Palicha, wrote in a social media post on Saturday.

 

Adding that there are more milestones to achieve, he wrote, “Customer love is strong, the economics are working, and the team is fired up.”

 

In December 2024, when Zepto Café was launched as a separate app, it clocked 30,000 orders/day. In January 2025, the daily orders surpassed the 50,000 mark, registering a 60 per cent month-on-month growth.

 

“I believe this is the next big innovation in Indian Q-Commerce and Consumer Internet, and Zepto is just getting started,” Palicha wrote in a social media post in December 2024.

 

Not just Zepto, its competitors like Zomato-backed Blinkit’s Bistro and Swiggy’s Bolt are also witnessing growth with their quick food delivery services and scaling operations.

 

In its Q3FY25 shareholder’s letter, Swiggy’s management said the Bolt service contributes 9 per cent of the company’s food delivery volumes, a 5 per cent increase from November last year.

 

The service was launched in October 2024 and is now available in 425 cities.

 

“This (Bolt) service has scaled meaningfully to 425 cities, contributing to 9 per cent of our food delivery volumes today (up from 5 per cent in Nov-24). We are the first player to create this proposition at scale for our 15 million users, thereby offering a platform for our restaurant partners to meaningfully participate in this market segment,” Swiggy wrote.

 

Zomato’s quick commerce arm Blinkit also introduced Bistro app in December 2024 for delivery snacks, meals, and beverages within 10 minutes.

 

“We launched Bistro targeting the large in-office market wanting quick access to snacks, meals, and beverages within 10-15 minutes. This market is currently addressed by on-site vendors/vending machines and is not catered to evenly across geographies by the existing food delivery options. Bistro is working to solve this by creating infrastructure and working with food researchers, producers, chefs, and restaurants to provide a proof of concept,” Zomato’s founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in a latest shareholder's letter.

 

The growth in quick food delivery comes amid allegations from the National Restaurant Association of India and the Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India, accusing food aggregators like Zomato and Swiggy of concealing consumer data, indulging in private labelling, betraying the trust of restaurant partners, and misusing their dominant market position.