Come rain, shine or pandemic, biryani continues to take the crown of being India’s favourite food. It has emerged as the most ordered dish on Swiggy, according to its StatEATstics report for the year. Be it chicken, mutton, or veg, a biryani was ordered more than once every second in 2020.
This year, Swiggy has titled its report The World from Home (WFH) edition with the world being at home for most part of the year due to the pandemic. Swiggy says it delivered five times as many orders to ‘Home’ addresses compared to ‘Work’ addresses between January and March. That number rose to nine times as many Home orders versus Work orders in April and May.
While chicken biryani topped the list, it was followed by masala dosa, paneer butter masala, chicken fried rice and garlic bread sticks. And after delicious lunches during a workday, Swiggy says lakhs of users fought the afternoon slump by ordering varieties of tea and coffee.
During the year, a customer used Swiggy Genie to get in touch with their spouse because their phone was off, while another used Swiggy Genie to turn off the water pump at their house.
Come rain, shine or pandemic, biryani continues to take the crown of being India’s favourite food. It has emerged as the most ordered dish on Swiggy, according to its StatEATstics report for the year. Be it chicken, mutton, or veg, a biryani was ordered more than once every second in 2020.
This year, Swiggy has titled its report The World from Home (WFH) edition with the world being at home for most part of the year due to the pandemic. Swiggy says it delivered five times as many orders to ‘Home’ addresses compared to ‘Work’ addresses between January and March. That number rose to nine times as many Home orders versus Work orders in April and May.
While chicken biryani topped the list, it was followed by masala dosa, paneer butter masala, chicken fried rice and garlic bread sticks. And after delicious lunches during a workday, Swiggy says lakhs of users fought the afternoon slump by ordering varieties of tea and coffee.
The pandemic also meant all celebrations had to be done indoors, thus increasing the number of orders for birthday cakes. 6,56,174 birthday cakes were delivered post lockdown.
Bengaluru emerged as the top city in terms of ordering food in 2020. It was also the city that gave delivery executives the most generous tips. A Bengaluru user, Swiggy says, gave a Rs 5000 tip to a delivery executive. Bengaluru users also seem to love chocolate with one person ordering 391 units of chocolates on Swiggy Instamart.
Bengaluru was followed by Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi.
Chennai also recorded Swiggy’s earliest and latest late-night order with one customer ordering in chicken noodles at 5 am in March, while another customer ordered cheese fries at 4:59am in February.
Source: The News Minute
