Zomato, Swiggy & others remove 10,500 restaurants
- IndiaGlitz, [Saturday,December 15 2018]
Eateries, hotels and restaurants have to comply with food safety norms laid down by the law if they have to be part of the network of food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy. If they don't respect the norms, the government can direct the apps to delist them.
This is what has happened with Zomato, Swiggy and others delisting 10,500 restaurants for not having license or registration.
Ashwini Kumar Choubey, the Minister of State for Health, had directed the firms to do the needful upon finding that the restaurants were flouting the norms. Zomato has delisted 2,500, Swiggy 4,000, Foodpanda 1,800, UberEats 2,000 and FoodCloud 200 unlicensed/unregistered restaurants so far.
Surveillance on a regular basis, monitoring, inspection and random sampling of food products have been carried out by FSSAI officials.