Amazon will now deliver food to homes, starts food delivery service

Amazon Food has launched its food delivery service in India to compete with Swiggy and Zomato in India. The new food delivery service by the US e-commerce giant has been initially launched in Bengaluru to deliver food prepared in local restaurants and cloud kitchens to customers. Amazon has also introduced its proprietary hygiene certification bar to assure people of clean food, which is important at this time as people are largely avoiding ordering food online due to the growing coronavirus outbreak in the country. Have been. To motivate people to order food at such times, the company has also claimed to have adopted strict safety standards.

An Amazon spokesperson said in a statement that the company launched its food delivery service based on customer feedback. The new service aims to help local businesses, especially restaurants that are facing difficulties due to the national lockdown. Please note that due to the lockdown, the government has restricted local restaurants from serving food at their locations.

Amazon has launched this new service in four pin codes in Bengaluru – 560048, 560037, 560066 and 560103. However, the company has not yet given any information on what criteria it will select the restaurant and cloud kitchen.

In a report released in February, it was reported that Amazon is planning to launch its online food delivery service in the country. Some sources familiar with the news told Gadgets 360 that there was some delay in the launch of the service due to the lockdown, which was imposed by the government in March to limit the coronavirus outbreak.