We are excited to introduce Zomato AI, a groundbreaking innovation that is more than just a chatbot. This intelligent, intuitive, and interactive foodie has been meticulously designed to assist you in placing orders. It aligns with your momentarily unique food & beverage preferences, dietary needs, and even your moods! Let’s dive into how we built it! Harnessing the Power of the Multiple Agent Framework One of the most exciting features of Zomato AI is its multiple agent framework. This unique feature equips Zomato AI with a variety of prompts for different tasks, essentially giving it mul ..read more

Hack-a-Noodle, a Zomato-hosted exhilarating 24-hour hackathon that brought together creativity and extraordinary ideas, unfolded with two thrilling dimensions. On one side, the stage was set for external participants, bringing their exciting and innovative projects to life. The stakes were high, as these brilliant minds had a chance to win prizes and secure potential employment at Zomato. On the other side, Zomato’s own tech team formed dynamic groups of 5-6 members, diving head first into the challenge of crafting solutions. The atmosphere buzzed with energy as all participants set out to cre ..read more

Milestone Alert Consolidated business (including quick commerce) is now Adjusted EBITDA and PAT positive (first time ever!). We have (again) delivered ahead of our guidance on getting to this milestone Adjusted EBITDA was +INR 12 crore in Q1FY24  Profit after Tax (PAT) was +INR 2 crore Quick commerce (Blinkit) business turned Contribution positive for the first time ever, in the month of June 2023. New guidance alert – we believe we can deliver Adjusted EBITDA breakeven in the quick commerce business in the next four quarters Click here to download Q1FY24 resultsDownload ..read more

“Physical activity is not what you do separate from your job, but rather an integral part of your job” – Brad Stulberg Before I break the details behind this clickbaity heading, “A new kind of CFO”, let me just walk you through my personal belief system, and the journey I have traversed over the last 4-5 years.  It is no secret that physical health – which also determines mental health is a vital force behind a high-performance individual. When we move our bodies regularly, we are in better control of our emotions, we think more creatively, and have more energy to tackle more in a day, i ..read more

At Zomato, our internal microservices and monolithic applications collectively produce a significant amount of logs each day. With a maximum production rate of 150 million logs per minute, this leads to the production of over 50 TB of uncompressed logs per day.  In the past, we stored all of these logs on self-hosted Elasticsearch. However, as the traffic on our platform and our services grew over time, our logs increased exponentially. Given this increase, managing the clusters became difficult from an operational standpoint. Given the nature of the business, we also had to over-provisio ..read more

“What is the best location to open my next restaurant outlet?”  “What menu prices are optimal to stay competitive in a city?” “What new dish should I add to my menu to cater to customer preferences?” The above questions are common concerns raised by restaurant partners who aspire to achieve business growth. However, there is currently a lack of a centralized and dependable resource that can provide them with the necessary analytics and information to make evidence-based decisions in these crucial areas. But today, we’re changing that! We have introduced Zomato Food Trends – an initiative ..read more

India’s food culture is more than just a taste of the diverse cuisines that our nation has to offer. It’s a way of life that brings people together, celebrates our traditions, and creates memories that last for a lifetime. As someone born and raised in Meerut, I remember the times when my father would take me on the back of his scooter to Pinki Chole Bhature, one of the town’s most sought-after eateries. The aroma of the spices, the sizzling of the chole and the crispy texture of the bhature made my mouth water with anticipation. And then there was the Sonu bhaiya ka Badam sherbet. Even though ..read more

Milestone Alert Our business excluding quick commerce turned Adjusted EBITDA positive in Q4FY23 driven by the food delivery business generating INR 0.78 billion of Adjusted EBITDA in the quarter. In August 2022, we had announced that this business will get to break-even within the next 3-5 quarters, and we are pleased to have delivered on that goal in the third quarter post that announcement Next up – we are aiming to get to positive Adjusted EBITDA (and also PAT) on a consolidated basis (including quick commerce) within the next 4 quarters (Note: The difference between Adjusted EBITDA and P ..read more

Welcome to the third and final instalment of our three-part blog series! In parts one and two, we unveiled the secrets behind Zomato’s powerful search engine, driven by Apache Solr, and shared our tactics for optimizing Solr’s performance. In this concluding chapter, we’ll take you behind the scenes of Zomato’s self-managed Solr clusters to show how we tackled the challenges arising from this rapid growth and transformed the scalability, reliability, and performance of Solr. Hitting the infrastructural bottlenecks Initially, we were running our Solr Clusters in Master-Slave configuration. As Z ..read more

Welcome to the third and final instalment of our three-part blog series! In parts one and two, we unveiled the secrets behind Zomato’s powerful search engine, driven by Apache Solr, and shared our tactics for optimizing Solr’s performance. In this concluding chapter, we’ll take you behind the scenes of Zomato’s self-managed Solr clusters to show how we tackled the challenges arising from this rapid growth and transformed the scalability, reliability, and performance of Solr. Hitting the infrastructural bottlenecks Initially, we were running our Solr Clusters in Master-Slave Configuration. As Z ..read more