The sacking of a food delivery man in India after he was filmed eating a client’s food and resealing the containers has sparked a conversation about the delivery industry in the country.
The video, which was filmed in Madurai in southern India, shows the delivery man, who is wearing a T-shirt from popular Indian food delivery app Zomato, eating food out of boxed orders then resealing them and putting them back into a delivery bag.
Initially met with disgust, anger and ridicule, the video was watched thousands of times.
The social reactions prompted Zomato, India’s biggest food delivery company, to react with a statement that they took “food tampering very seriously”.
“We have spoken to him at length and while we understand that this was a human error in judgement, we have taken him off our platform,” the company added. Read more