ONDC sees over 5 lakh meals supply orders in March, surge in restaurant community members

February and March have been document months for the meals supply section on the Open Community for Digital Commerce (ONDC). The community has seen the month-to-month meals orders cross the 5 lakh-mark in March. This comes at a time when many key restaurant gamers have been onboarded prior to now few months, with meals orders by ONDC now being positioned from over 200 cities.

Sturdy progress

Shireesh Joshi, Chief Enterprise Officer, ONDC informed businessline, “ Whereas we proceed so as to add new geographies and new classes, what has been heartening to notice is that current classes additionally proceed to witness sturdy progress momentum. Final yr, in March, we had been barely doing about 4,000 meals orders, and this March, we now have crossed the 5 lakh orders mark. The variety of eating places out there on the community has additionally now tripled. The Holi weekend witnessed a 10-15 per cent bounce by way of meals orders over the earlier weekend.”

Over the previous few months, main gamers resembling Domino’s, Insurgent Meals, McDonald’s, Burger King and Biryani by Kilo amongst others have onboarded on ONDC both instantly or by purchaser apps.

‘Wholesome degree’

“Whereas February was a document month, it appears like March will high that. We not solely have nationwide manufacturers but in addition regional manufacturers. So we are going to finish this fiscal yr at a wholesome degree and momentum,” Joshi stated, including that the meals supply orders are actually coming from greater than 200 cities. He identified this has been a results of the “community impact” as over the course of the yr, meals supply ended up turning into a extensively promoted class throughout purchaser functions because of the addition of the most important pool of sellers.

Apart from mobility and meals supply, it has additionally seen an increase in transactions in varied different classes together with trend, electronics, well being and wellness merchandise, house and kitchen merchandise amongst others. General, ONDC is now witnessing greater than two lakh transactions per day.

Responding to a question on addition of recent classes within the new fiscal yr, Joshi stated, “ We have now made good progress within the grocery section too, which is a difficult class to crack. We now have greater than 5,000 FPOs reside on the community and so they deliver some very distinctive merchandise. We’re additionally on the cusp of introducing monetary companies. So we count on to see the broadening of services in new and current classes and likewise see enlargement of geographies.”