Chennai has the highest number of female delivery partners while Leh is the highest (altitude-wise) active point for food delivery, according to online food delivery platform Zomato. Currently the company delivers food in more than 500 cities and has over 200,000 delivery partners who operate every day. Meanwhile the median age of 230,000 Zomato delivery partners is 27, Kanpur has the youngest (age 18) delivery partner while Gurugram has the oldest (age 60) delivery partner.
Furthermore as many as 23,000 Zomato partners deliver food on bicycles and over 50,000 or 22 per cent are pursuing education while working as a delivery partner with the online food aggregator. Reportedly Indore witnessed a delivery partner earning a tip of Rs 5,000 on a single order that cost over Rs 1 lakh whereas a restaurant named Night Kitchen in kolkata delivered an order worth Rs 97,883.
Apparently Raipur has a delivery partner who has traveled 28,660 kms for delivering food in 2019. Perhaps the food delivery platform currently offers services from 1.5 lakh restaurants in India. Globally, it is present in over 10,000 cities. Previously in December last year, Swiggy had announced employing around 2,000 women across cities in India. Hence keeping in mind safety issues, the company also said that it would allow women to complete deliveries by 6 pm and will have a dedicated helpline to address concerns.
