Zomato's 2024 Report Highlights India's Food Ordering Trends and Unique Moments
Biryani remains the most-ordered dish, while unique anecdotes include a ₹5 lakh restaurant bill and 120 Manchurian combos ordered on a train.
- Zomato's year-end report reveals biryani as the top-ordered dish in 2024 with over 9 crore orders, followed by pizza with 5.8 crore orders, despite both seeing declines from 2023.
- A Bengaluru diner made headlines by spending over ₹5 lakh on a single restaurant bill, the highest recorded by Zomato this year.
- In an unusual event, a customer used Zomato's IRCTC partnership to order 120 Manchurian combos on a train to feed an entire bogey.
- Zomato's quick commerce service, Blinkit, saw high demand for packaged items, including 17 million packs of Maggi and over 10 million Coca-Cola cans ordered in 2024.
- Delhi residents saved ₹195 crore on dining out through Zomato, while tea surpassed coffee as the most-ordered beverage on the platform.