Home / India News / Are cloud kitchens and delivery the future of India's food industry?

Are cloud kitchens and delivery the future of India's food industry?

Cloud kitchens are essentially low-cost models where kitchens in places with cheap real estate are rented out, and from which deliveries are fulfilled mostly through an aggregator.

biryani, food, online delivery, cloud kitchen

Premium

Small cloud kitchens have been hit hardest — volumes have plummeted 60 per cent. Imaging: Ajay Mohanty

10 min read Last Updated : Jun 27 2020 | 2:25 AM IST

The doors have reopened and the tables laid — albeit six feet apart— but there are no guests. In a raging pandemic that affords no room for either revelry or quiet dining, restaurants, ordinarily sites of cool conviviality, are now cold, empty, arid shells.

The restaurant industry has been one of the biggest casualties of the coronavirus crisis worldwide. But in India, where the food service sector employs over seven million people and is estimated to be worth Rs 4.2 lakh crore, the distress has been particularly acute. For one, the lockdown here was among the longest and most stringent

Topics : Coronavirus Lockdown online food delivery restaurants Food service sector India food sector Pure aggregator model Indian Economy food joints Swiggy Zomato Ola Uber Eats

What you get on BS Premium?

Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.

VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in