Ola wants to focus on its cloud kitchen business it launched after Foodpanda took over Mumbai-based food-tech startup Holachef in October last year.

The FICCI-PWC report pegged the organised biryani delivery industry at around Rs 2,500 crore - companies here include Hyderabad's  Paradise, Behrouz Biryani, Biryani Blues, and Biryani by Kilo among others

Rustling up a meal will no longer be a quotidian chore but a gourmet journey undertaken by a creative mind.

According to the study, 95 per cent of the respondents surveyed order food online, owing to promotional offers and discounts, while 84 per cent individuals said its hassle-free and time-saving

The RBI has directed all prepaid payment instruments to complete customer KYC requirements before end-February and in the absence of reliable digital alternatives, players are reverting to paper-based KYC.

Rural and small town India was deprived of the benefits of banking innovations for decades. UPI, with its fast spread and ease of use and adaptability, is breaking the digital divide between India and Bharat.

The food services business is expected to grow to Rs 5,52,000 crore  by 2022.

The food services industry is roughly $60 billion today and is expected to grow to $90 billion over the next 4-5 years.

The restaurant business has been under a lot of pressure of late, but now the buzz is that the sector is seeing a revival, across formats to boot.

FSSAI issued a directive to food service providers such as Swiggy, Zomato, UberEats, Foodpanda to delist businesses without FSSAI licence following complaints of sub-standard food.

Agritech companies are revamping the farm-to-fork supply chain. The big gainers are farmers.

Run by Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd, Swiggy will use the funds to ramp up its supply network as well as to foray into new markets.

Long before food tech became a catchword, Sandipan Mitra, Co-founder and CEO of HungerBox, a business-to-business (B2B) food tech start-up, started an online food ordering company in 2007 and named it HungryBangalore.com.

Ridlr is an end-to-end public transport ticketing and commuting app that makes it easy for you in daily intra-city travel. The simple idea behind the undisclosed deal is to allow its customers to connect through a monetized system of public transport after they end their journey on an Ola cab, thus helping them save time.

While Swiggy adds one more UPI payment option, Flipkart-owned digital wallet forays into food delivery market