• Zomato, Swiggy, OYO Rooms register record orders and bookings on New Year's Eve

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    Zomato, Swiggy, OYO Rooms register record orders and bookings on New Year's Eve
    On Near Year's Eve 2023, Zomato fulfilled orders from 2015 to 2020, which totaled five years of New Year's Eve deliveries.

    Digital Desk: Companies that set records for orders and bookings on New Year's Eve, including Zomato, Swiggy, and OYO Rooms, among others, could not have wished for a better start to 2024. On December 31, 2023, the food delivery service Zomato logged the most orders delivered in a single day.

    Zomato delivered five-year New Year's Eve orders (orders of the year 2015–2020) combined on Near Year's Eve 2023.The bulk of the orders came from Maharashtra, and more than 3.2 lakh delivery partners fulfilled the requests.

    One order of 125 goods was placed in Kolkata, according to the statistics. On New Year's Eve, customers left Zomato delivery partners a total of Rs 97 lakh in tips. 2.41 million packs of ice cubes, 68,231 beverage bottles, 356 lighters, and 1.47 lakh packages of chips were ordered.

    A similar number of orders were placed on Swiggy Instamart for two lakh onions and 1.80 lakh potatoes. Surat received 200 single-ketchup packages. Cocktail mixers, glasses, and tonic water searches surged tenfold. Statistics reveal that 1.04 lakh persons placed food orders for others.

    "This year, the numbers are almost four times higher. with 2,00,000 kilos of kaanda and 1,80,000 kilos of aloo stocked at @swiggyinstamart, Uday Shetty is spinning and shaking, unable to control himself right now," Swiggy tweeted.

    On New Year's Eve 2023, OYO Rooms had 6.2 lakhs reservations, a 37% increase in hotel reservations. In addition, between December 30 and December 31, 2.3 lakh last-minute reservations were made.

    Remarkably, additional pilgrimage sites were selected. The percentage of bookings jumped by 70% in Ayodhya, 50% in Goa, and 60% in Nainital.

    Zomato shares, as of 10:09 a.m., traded 0.85 per cent or Rs 1.05, higher on the BSE at Rs 124.75 apiece. OYO Rooms and Swiggy are expected to come up with their initial public offers (IPOs) this year.