Zomato, Swiggy hit 2 mn orders each on New Year's Eve as India stays home

Zomato logs 6,000 orders per minute at around 7pm; Swiggy says it hit 6,600 orders per minute.

Food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato saw a spike in orders on New Year’s Eve (NYE) 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. He also tweeted that the foodtech app was seeing very high app openings by users