Swiggy sees recovery to pre-covid levels in 200 cities

Swiggy on Thursday said more than 200 cities on its platform have reached 90% of pre-covid order value or gross merchandise value (GMV), with 70 cities seeing full recovery to pre-covid levels.

The Bengaluru-based food aggregator also said that since the start of the lockdown it has delivered over 100 million orders, and has seen its pan-India food delivery volumes recover by almost 85%.

Interestingly, Swiggy says that owing to reverse migration, food delivery volumes for certain Tier 1 and 2 cities including Kolkata, Kochi, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Mysore have ramped up their average GMV and performing at 150% of pre-covid levels.

On the restaurant side, Swiggy is witnessing more than 7,000 new restaurants being onboarded per month on its platform. Pre-covid the total new restaurants coming on Swiggy stood at 3000, on a monthly basis.