In October, Zomato will go live with 12 new originals, one every week
NRAI said extension of Gold to delivery would be 'suicidal' for the vertical
Zomato had laid off 541 employees across its customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams earlier this month
Restaurants make it clear they won't be part of membership scheme
The association had raised critical issues such as deep discounting, data masking, high and uneven commission charges with the delievery aggregators
The food delivery platform's OTT foray comes at a time when online marketplace Amazon is going big with Prime Video and Flipkart is working on its own content vertical
Introduced in July, the Infinity Dining programme allowed Zomato's Gold subscribers to order unlimited food and drinks at a set price from the menu of partner restaurants
Zomato Media Pvt., in which Info Edge holds a 26.38% stake, laid off 541 people on Sept. 7, Business Standard had reported
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On Thursday, Goyal had tweeted that its delivery partners' monthly income crossed Rs 200 crore for the first time
Zomato maintains that it was forced to rationalise the staff strength.
The reason behind the move is an improved Zomato platform with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven bots and automation
On August 26, NRAI had written to Zomato, Swiggy, UberEats, and Foodpanda, raising eight critical issues it has with the companies
The association said it deliberated on eight critical issues pertaining to the online delivery space on Thursday with Zomato and Swiggy
Zomato Founder Deepinder Goyal took to Twitter on Friday to say Zomato was 'logging out of the #Logout campaign'
NRAI has led the charge against Zomato's deep discounting membership based scheme Zomato Gold
Rahul Singh is the president of NRAI, which has led the charge against Zomato's deep discounting membership-based scheme Zomato Gold
Zomato, which initially claimed that the logout campaign was driven by vested interests, had on Wednesday made sweeping changes to its Gold programme
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Is it time for the aggregator brands to rethink their promise to their partners-be it restaurants, airlines and hotels and drivers?