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Zomato claimed to have “delisted” a couple of of the dishonest eateries.
Social media customers famous final week that Chandigarh has seen the emergence of such doubtful eateries. (Picture Credit score: X)
Zomato has lastly responded to criticism it acquired for having doubtful ‘one-dish’ eating places on its platform. Among the fraudulent eateries on its app which may have manipulated the system to advertise ‘prohibited gadgets’ have been ‘delisted,’ based on the corporate. Following the looks of doubtful listings on Zomato, social media customers started to conjure up a number of conspiracy theories. Some instructed that Zomato was aiding the ‘cash laundering’ trade, whereas others thought the eateries had been a entrance for the drug commerce.
“We’ve recognized all such eating places that had been doubtlessly fraudulent and have delisted them from our platform. To resolve this extra comprehensively, now we have additionally investigated all different eating places which have a really restricted menu on Zomato and might need listed prohibited gadgets or labored round a strategy to checklist prohibited gadgets,” the official account of Zomato posted.
We’ve seen social media conversations round single-dish eating places listed on Zomato.We’ve recognized all such eating places that had been doubtlessly fraudulent and have delisted them from our platform. To resolve this extra comprehensively, now we have additionally investigated all different…
— zomato (@zomato) November 20, 2024
“As per our coverage, all eating places listed on Zomato have to have an FSSAI license and we additionally actively block gadgets equivalent to alcohol, cigarettes/cigars/vapes from being listed on our platform,” the publish added.
The restaurant aggregator acknowledged the aforementioned eateries had been capable of circumvent Zomato’s “checks by utilizing generic meals names equivalent to, ‘Merry Berry’ and ‘Naughty Strawberry’.”
The corporate acknowledged that to forestall such occurrences sooner or later, they’ve additional bolstered their fraud checks to proactively determine such instances.
In the meantime, these doubtful eateries emerged in Chandigarh, final week, based on social media customers, who charged ‘absurdly excessive costs’ for a single dish. Among the doubtful eating places had no critiques in any respect, whereas others had been inundated with unfavourable ones, presumably to guard the operation from diners solely attempting to position an order.
“Got here throughout some odd listings on Zomato in Chandigarh – so-called ‘eating places’ that solely provide a single dish, priced absurdly excessive. It’s received me questioning: might these be fronts for cash laundering or another shady enterprise?” a Redditor posted.
Because the publish gained recognition, readers shared their opinions about what would have prompted these amenities to seem.
A person stated “These seem like flavours of juice that you just put into your vapes. Pricing additionally seems constant.”
One other commented, “True. I do know of a precise such operation in one other metropolis, that basically sells vape pens/cartridges. The value is sort of the identical, Rs 1000- Rs 1200 per merchandise.”
One person identified that each one the eating places had been in the identical location ‘Nayagaon’, including to the thriller.
The thriller was elevated when a person identified that all the eateries had been in the identical space, “Nayagaon.”
