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Mumbai: ‘It will be a loss for us if this happens’
Updated On: 21 March, 2024 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Eshan Kalyanikar
Delivery personnel worried about potential income loss, while critics slam Zomato’s Pure-Veg fleet as casteist and divisive
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The delivery workers claim Zomato’s plan will impact their income
For the better part of the last year, Arunkumar Mishra has been a delivery service personnel with the food delivery company Zomato. When asked if he had heard about his company’s plans to introduce a separate fleet of riders for orders from ‘pure vegetarian’ restaurants, he said he had heard about it but nothing has been communicated to him so far. “It will be a loss for us if this happens. Most people order non-vegetarian food, so those asked to pick up orders only from vegetarian restaurants will not make as much as others,” he said.
Mishra is a vegetarian, as is everyone else in his family. He recalled how when he had first started delivery work, the idea of carrying meat in his hands made him uncomfortable. “That is not how I think anymore. Once I overcame that fear, it did not matter what I was carrying in my hand. I’m still a vegetarian, but I have no problem now if someone else is eating non-veg near me; that is not how it was before,” he said.
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