Swiggy to open delivery-only kitchens for faster service
Bengaluru, Sep 26 : Leading food delivery start-up Swiggy on Wednesday said it will open delivery-only kitchens in four metros and partner with 300 restaurants to serve customers faster and expand the food delivery market across the country.
"We will soon open our 'access' kitchens in Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai and tie up with about 300 restaurants in 10 cities within next 6-9 months to serve food faster," said the city-based app provider in a statement.
Through the initiative 'Swiggy Access', the company plans to help about 300 existing restaurants across 10 cities expand their businesses to more locations through kitchens that will only deliver food and involve no heavy real estate investments.
The restaurants will get access to kitchen infrastructure set up by Swiggy with no rents or deposits.
The platform is allowing restaurants to expand across cities through the project. A popular south Indian restaurant chain from Bengaluru, Vasudev Adiga's, will now deliver to consumers in Delhi through the access kitchen.
There is a deficit in restaurant supply in the country despite the mushrooming of new restaurants, according to the company.
"Several parts of a city may not have the restaurants and cuisines that a consumer wants, which these kitchens will make accessible," a company spokesperson told IANS.
By 2020, the company aims to spread the access kitchens across 30-40 cities in the country through tie-ups with hundreds of restaurants.
After raising $210 million in June from multiple investment firms, Swiggy has so far raised over $460 million. /EOM
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
TN secures 95.03 pass percentage in Class 12 board exams this year
Chennai (PTI): Tamil Nadu class XII board exam results were released on Friday and 95.03 per cent of students who wrote the exams registered a pass this year.
Releasing the results, the School Education Department officials here said that Erode district registered the highest pass percentage of 98.87, followed by Sivaganga district with 98.05 per cent. With 95.43 per cent of pass, Chennai figured in the 20th position.
This year, the girls outshine the boys by securing a pass percentage of 97. Boys could secure only 93.19 per cent.
Of the 7,536 higher secondary schools, the officials said that a total of 2,639 private schools and 489 government schools have secured 100 per cent pass percentage.
Accordingly, of 7,91,654 students who took the exams, as many as 7,53,694 have secured passing marks. The overall pass percentage of the Science stream was 96.90, while the pass percentage among Commerce group students was 92.67.
