Zomato and Swiggy: The year 2024 has made a great start. It was warmly welcomed all over the world. People had a lot of parties. Food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy have benefited tremendously from this. Along with this, the coffers of their subsidiaries Blinkit and Instamart have also been filled. On New Year's Eve, when people were busy celebrating, these companies were collecting money. According to the information given by the companies, Zomato received 140 orders every second and Swiggy said that there were record breaking sales on their platform.
Hit our all-time high orders in a day on @zomato. Immense gratitude to all 🙏
Really thankful to all our delivery partners and restaurant partners who made this possible❤️— Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) December 31, 2023
6 years worth of orders delivered on the last day of 2023
Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal wrote on social media that the food delivery platform delivered a large number of orders on the last evening of 2023. This figure is equal to the orders placed on New Year's Eve in 6 years from 2015 to 2020. He wrote in his tweet that 8422 orders were placed at 8.06 pm. This figure works out to 140 orders per second. Maximum orders were placed from Maharashtra. A customer from Kolkata ordered 125 items in a single order. He wrote in another tweet that we have broken the record of orders in one day. Thank you all.
We've already hit highest..
– ever orders in a day
– OPM (orders per minute)
– soft drinks & tonic water sold in a day
– chips sold in a day
– tips given to riders in a day (thank you India 🙏)And it's not slowing down! All systems and stores holding up well till now motiv
— Albinder Dhindsa (@albinder) December 31, 2023
Blinkit broke many records
Albinder Dhindsa, co-founder and CEO of Blinkit, wrote on social media platform X that we have made a new record of orders in a day and orders per minute. Apart from this, the record of maximum number of soft drinks, tonic water, chips and tips received by our delivery associates in a day has also been broken. It doesn't seem to be decreasing at the moment. Thank you India.
NYE '24 broke all records across Swiggy Food and Instamart! With the team at the stroke of midnight – could not be happier! pic.twitter.com/fvP1I6c6yC
— Rohit Kapoor (@rohitisb) December 31, 2023
Swiggy Food and Instamart also kept making unique records
Swiggy CEO Rohit Kapoor tweeted that many records have been broken on Swiggy Food and Instamart in the New Year 2024. Swiggy Instamart had the highest number of orders per minute. It also broke the record of orders placed in the Cricket World Cup final. Due to parties happening across the country, sales of tonic water, cocktail mixers and glasses increased 10 times on Instamart.
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