Ending ties with on-line food aggregator giants reminiscent of Swiggy and Zomato, the Cuddalore District Hotel Owners Association has now joined arms with homegrown food aggregator, Zaaroz, for door delivery of restaurant food to prospects.
Most of the restaurants within the district stopped receiving food orders from the favored aggregators from Monday (September 1, 2025) and have now moved to Zaaroz, which solely receives subscriptions from the eateries on a monthly-basis.
Incidentally, in July, restaurants in Namakkal onboarded the Zaaroz platform that provides numerous advantages to restaurants, prospects and delivery executives.
A spokesperson of the Cuddalore District Hotel Owners Association stated prospects in addition to restaurants have been badly hit by pointless prices levied by the favored food aggregators. Issues like heavy fee demanded by food aggregators apart from heavy reductions being supplied to prospects with out the data of the hoteliers had created an environment of distrust between hoteliers and their prospects.
Initially, a majority of the restaurants entered into partnership with the food aggregators. But the fee prices steadily elevated to 20 to 30% since then to the purpose the place it was now not worthwhile to do enterprise with them. Several eateries acquired hefty payments to the tune of ₹2 to ₹3 lakh per 30 days and have been pressured to shut down their companies. An evaluation of billing revealed that restaurants have been incurring losses. Taking this under consideration, the affiliation determined to disassociate itself with these on-line aggregators and help Chidambaram-based Zaaroz.
How does Zaaroz work?
Zaaroz is at the moment working in over 50 areas (tier 2, tier 3) in Tamil Nadu and has 5,000 distributors within the platform serving 8 lakh prospects.
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Ram Prasath, founder and CEO of Zaaroz stated the delivery startup solely receives month-to-month subscriptions from restaurants in Cuddalore. “As many as 75 food joints have on-boarded with us in Cuddalore. Small eateries have to pay ₹1,500 and 18% GST every month while restaurants should pay ₹3,000 with 18% GST every month to the company,” he stated.
Mr. Ram Prasath who began Zaaroz in 2019 earlier had a protracted stint within the Information Technology sector in Singapore earlier than he began his personal delivery software. The firm is at the moment increasing to different cities and planning to open up operations in Theni and Perundurai in per week’s time.
“We follow a transparent model with benefits for customers, restaurants and the delivery executives. The delivery app is made for sustainable business growth. Presently, the company provides electric bikes to its executives and provides ₹2 per km as petrol expenses for those who are yet to receive the electric bikes,” Mr. Prasath added.
