India’s food delivery sector is growing a lot these days. Restaurant discovery and food delivery firm Zomato recently claimed to have hit the 21 million monthly order run rate in India.
The company said that it saw its highest weekly order volume during the month of September touch 700,000 orders each day of the week. With this, foodtech giant Zomato has announced that it is the market leader in the food delivery space in India.
“At the beginning of 2018, we were at 3.5 million orders a month. With 21 million orders per month, as far as we know, we are now the market leader in the food ordering space in India,” mentioned Zomato CEO, Deepinder Goyal.
Also, it was stated that Zomato had reached the 3 million monthly order volume mark. The company has its existence in 38 cities in India. The company stated that the pace they are growing, it’s only a matter of time before they launch their food delivery business in 100 cities.
About 86% of the orders are now fulfilled by Zomato’s own logistics across its fleet of 74,000 delivery agents as compared to a 26% self-fulfilled delivery rate as of January.