Zomato Plans to Deliver Food to its customers in 10 Minutes

Zomato, an online delivery service provider plans to reduce its delivery time to 10 minutes, following the footsteps of grocery delivery companies. 

Deepinder Goyal, the founder of Zomato said, “ I started feeling that 30-minute delivery time by Zomato is too slow and will soon have to be obsolete. If we do not make it obsolete, someone else will.”

According to Goyal, fulfilling his fast-delivery promise relies on a dense network of finishing stations located in the immediate vicinity of a high-demand customer neighbourhood.

Zomato will house its bestseller items, including 20-30 dishes across its finishing stations from the partner restaurants based on predictability. It also claims that following the 10-minute model, the prices of the items will also get reduced. 

It will also depend heavily on dish-level demand prediction and in-station robotics to ensure that the food is sterile, fresh and hot at the time it is picked by the delivery partner.

This development takes place when Zomato is actively investing in food tech and robotics startups. Last week, the company announced a $5 million investment in Mukunda Foods, a robotics company that designs and manufactures intelligent robotics that automates restaurant cooking.

Earlier, it invested in as-tech firm Adonmo and B2B software platform UrbanPiper Technology as a part of its larger plan to deploy $1 billion across startups. It also extended a debt of $150 million to rescue cash strapped quick commerce startup, Blinkit.