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BUSINESS·2 min read·May 14, 2026

Swiggy has onboarded more than 7,000 new restaurants in a month.

Online meals shipping platform Swiggy on Thursday discovered it has onboarded greater than 7,000 new eating places a month on Swiggy that is three,000 greater than the pre-covid times, along side handing over 10 crore orders considering the start of the lockdown. Nearly 6,000 new eating places are s

Male waiter presenting a burger and drink on a tray in an intimate Bengaluru restaurant setting.
Male waiter presenting a burger and drink on a tray in an intimate Bengaluru restaurant setting. · Plate 01 · Photographed for The Entrepreneur Story

Online meals shipping platform Swiggy on Thursday discovered it has onboarded greater than 7,000 new eating places a month on Swiggy that is three,000 greater than the pre-covid times, along side handing over 10 crore orders considering the start of the lockdown.

Nearly 6,000 new eating places are small and medium eating places in comparison to three,500 withinside the pre-covid generation and there was a five-fold boom according to month in onboarding fine-dine eating places for on line deliveries, Swiggy stated.

“Our pan-India meals shipping has recovered round eighty-eighty five according to cent of pre-Covid order value. In many markets, it’s far at ninety five according to cent, a few even over one hundred according to cent,” the enterprise stated in a statement.

In the IPL thirteen season, Swiggy is seeing predominant towns attaining pre-covid recuperation values.

During the continuing cricketing season, the Tier 2, three towns have achieved especially properly recording a double-digit boom over the primary weekend itself, the enterprise informed.

Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad are the maximum lively metro towns whilst Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Lucknow are the maximum lively tier-2 towns this cricket season.

“Almost over two hundred towns have now reached ninety according to cent in their pre-Covid GMV (gross products value) degrees with greater than 70 towns seeing a complete recuperation to their pre-Covid degrees,” Swiggy stated.

Certain micro wallet in the usa have additionally reached two hundred according to cent in their pre- COVID value.

Big meals shipping markets including Bengaluru and Chennai are seeing very rapid recuperation.

However, because of a number of the clients migrating from those metros into tier 2 and three towns, they have got reached their eighty according to cent GMV degrees.

“With places of work resuming operations, we will count on the operating populace emigrate lower back to the metros withinside the close to destiny and attain complete recuperation,” Swiggy stated.

Swiggy’s Jumpstart Package has supported over 50,000 eating places withinside the closing 4 months.

“Over 15,000 eating places have leveraged Jumpstart for the ‘Best Safety Standards’ tag and over 10,000 eating places leveraged it for reinforcing their business,” it stated.

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