Swiggy's delivery man shoots Restaurant owner over delay in order

In Greater Noida, a restaurant owner was killed by the delivery agent of online food platform Swiggy over delay in getting an order ready. As per the reports by News18, "the delivery man reportedly reached the restaurant to collect the order but was told by a staffer that one of the items in the order were still being prepared and he will have to wait, leading to an argument between the two. When Agarwal tried to stop the two from fighting, he was allegedly shot him in the head by the delivery agent with the help of his friend."

Recently, an advertisement by another food delivery app, Zomato, featuring Bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif has stirred up a controversy for normalising stressful work. 

The ad has attracted controversy on Social media. On Twitter, a user posted, "You’re literally showing off how delivery partners don’t even have enough time to take a selfie and have to meet deadlines even when riding in the rain." Other user wrote, "I thought that this normalised a stressful working environment where an agent can’t stick around for a couple of minutes for clicking a selfie with their favourite actor." Later, Zomato stated, "We believe that our ads are well-intentioned, but were unfortunately misinterpreted by some people." 

Recently, Zomato and its rival Swiggy are accused of exploiting their workers by two anonymous Twitter accounts called ‘SwiggyDE’ and ‘Delivery Bhoy’.