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The Zomato boomerang: To spit or to swallow - that is the question

Somehow, after the initial revulsion, social media started supporting the Zomato delivery boy who was seen in a viral video pilfering a delivery packet and partaking of some of the food

Food delivery, zomato, delivery man, delivery service, food service
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Sandeep Goyal
It must have been the biggest nightmare to have a live video of one of your delivery boys actually opening up a food pack, partaking of its contents, re-arranging them, and closing the food pack again for delivery to an unsuspecting customer. Zomato took the hit right on the chin — with an explosive impact. Within minutes, social media was ablaze. So enormous was the inferno of disgust and hate that Zomato was forced to put out a statement on its blog against food tampering saying:

“Last night, we came across a video of a delivery executive in a Zomato

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