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Food delivery is a courier service in which a restaurant, store, or independent food-delivery company delivers food to a customer. An order is typically made either by telephone, through the supplier's website or mobile app , or through a third party food ordering service.
Online food ordering is the process of ordering food, for delivery or pickup, from a website or other application. The product can be either ready-to-eat food (e.g., direct from a home-kitchen, restaurant, or a virtual restaurant) or food that has not been specially prepared for direct consumption (e.g., vegetables direct from a farm/garden, fruits, frozen meats. etc).
Zomato (/ z oʊ ˈ m æ ˈ t oʊ / or / z oʊ ˈ m ɑː ˈ t oʊ /) [5] is an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator and food delivery company. It was founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah in 2008. [6]
Swiggy is an Indian online food ordering and delivery company. Founded in 2014, Swiggy is headquartered in Bangalore and operates in more than 580 Indian cities, as of July 2023. [ 4 ] Besides food delivery, the platform also provides quick commerce services under the name Swiggy Instamart, and same-day package deliveries with Swiggy Genie.
Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the company Uber in 2014. [4] The meals are delivered by couriers using various methods, including cars, scooters, bikes, or on foot. [5] It is operational in over 6,000 cities in 45 countries as of 2021. [6] The process of delivering food is carried out by Uber drivers. [7]
Q-commerce, also referred to as quick commerce, is a type of e-commerce where emphasis is on quick deliveries, typically in less than an hour. [1] Q-commerce originally started with food delivery and it still represents the largest chunk of the business.
Online grocery stores may allow facilitating local food which may reduce the environmental impact of food transport. Small-scale farmers have been embracing digital technologies as a way to directly sell produce, and community-supported agriculture and direct-sell delivery systems are on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic. [ 15 ]
The company was an early proponent of the move towards food sustainability and rapidly grew in popularity by catering to an urban, socially-conscious consumer. FreshDirect focuses on reducing the time it takes for food to move from its source to the end user by buying directly from farms, [ 8 ] emphasizing organic food and locally grown items.