Online food ordering and delivery platform, Swiggy will soon offer food delivery services to passengers at four Indian railways stations.
The delivery service will start at Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam, and Vijayawada railway stations beginning March 12. With this, the food delivery services will be extended to 59 more railway stations in the coming weeks, Swiggy said in a statement.
“This partnership with Swiggy will bring more convenience and food options to our passengers, making their journeys more memorable,” Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of IRCTC Sanjay Kumar Jain mentioned.
CEO of Swiggy Rohit Kapoor said, “We are hopeful of a buoyant response from passengers and restaurant operators on this route, which will hopefully lead to us providing services on more stations and on newer routes.”
Key takeaways from the collaboration
On Tuesday, Swiggy Food Marketplace and the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for delivering pre-ordered food on trains.
Notably, the passengers can avail of pre-ordered food services via Swiggy once they input the PNR on the IRCTC app and select the preferred station for food delivery.
As part of the MoU, Swiggy will deliver food from its extensive restaurant network to passengers on the Indian railways starting with Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. The service is likely to expand to 59 additional city stations in the coming weeks, the statement further mentioned.
Earlier, IRCTC collaborated with the food aggregator Zomato for the supply and delivery of pre-ordered food at different railway stations.
At the time of the partnership, announced in October, train passengers can avail of the services at selected stations, including New Delhi, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Lucknow, and Varanasi.
Indian Railways’ catering arm IRCTC is collaborating with food delivery platforms to expand its services to a larger number of railway stations with a wider range of food options for its customers.
