Accordingly leading food delivery startup Swiggy on Wednesday said it will open kitchens in four metros and partner with 300 restaurants turned delivery only kitchens to serve customers faster and expand the food delivery market across the country. The city based app provider in a statement in Bengaluru said "We will soon open our 'access' kitchens in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai and tie up with about 300 restaurants turned into delivery only kitchens in 10 cities to serve food faster".
Further through the initiative 'Swiggy Access', the company plans to help about 300 existing restaurants across 10 cities expand to more locations within 6-9 months through kitchens that will only deliver food and involve no heavy real estate investments. Reports added the platform is allowing restaurants to expand across cities through the project. Moreover a popular south Indian restaurant chain from Bengaluru, Vasudev Adiga's, will now deliver to consumers in Delhi through the access kitchen.
A company spokesperson told "Several parts of
a city may not have the restaurants and cuisines that a consumer wants, which
these kitchens will make accessible". The company's Chief Executive of New
Supply vertical Vishal Bhatia in the statement “We believe that delivery only
kitchens will be the future of restaurant industry and this initiative will
enable this transition by rapidly expanding to more areas in tier-I and tier-II
cities”.
