Zomato receives 4,100 orders per minute on New Year's eve, its highest ever
PremiumZomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal live-tweeted interesting stats on the order numbers, rise in order value and the tension which gripped his tech team.
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PremiumOnline restaurant guide and food ordering platform Zomato saw a record number of orders on New Year's eve as more people in India ordered food online due to covid-induced curfews in many states. Zomato clocked an unprecedented record of over 4,000 orders per minute(OPM) on the New Year's eve.
Zomato founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal live-tweeted interesting stats on the order numbers, rise in order value and the tension which gripped his tech team.
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At about 7:53 pm, Goyal tweeted, "Insane amount of strain in the system right now. 1.4 lakh live orders right now. ~20k biryanis in transit. And 16k pizzas; 40% of them extra cheese pizzas."
Goyal also informed that people from outside India especially from the UAE, Lebanon, Turkey were placing orders for people in India.
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Goyal further added that the order velocity on the application was the highest the app had seen in his history. It started at 2,500 orders per minute at 6:14 pm and peaked to touch 4,100 orders per minute at 8:22 pm.
In December last yea, Zomato had closed USD 660 million (over ₹4,850 crore) funding round, valuing the company at a post-money valuation of USD 3.6 billion.
