Food Safety Complaints

Food safety to refers to handling food in such a way as to prevent any food borne illness. Food safety is a global issue. Often we have seen news on the media that there was a living insect in the food and how the customers sued the restaurant for it. We have also seen how someone ordered Vegetarian food but was delivered chicken instead. To lessen the burden of the customer, the government formed The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in August 2011 under the Food Safety Standards Act, 2006 as a responsive body for promoting and protecting public health in India. It is important to note that we should buy packaging foods which have FSSAI marked on it as they are generally safer than the others. There has also been a boon of ordering food online which has led to many food delivery apps namely Zomato, Swiggy, Uber Eats, Foodpanda etc. People these days generally prefer to order their food online rather than dining out in a restaurant. According to a recent survey more than 10% people are left unsatisfied with the food that was delivered. The most common food complaints include wrong product delivered, stale food delivered, refund not provided etc. So what can be done if you a have food safety complaint in India? First and foremost we should immediately try to contact the customer care of these online portals. As they value customer feedback they will try to resolve the complaint as quickly as possible. Some apps even have automated chat bots for the same. The customer care number of some of the most well known delivery apps in India are :

Swiggy Customer Care Number – 080-67466789
Zomato Customer Care Number - +61 450 266 295
Uber Eats Customer Care Number – 800-253-9377
Foodpanda Customer Care Number – 1800-3000-3034
Dominos Customer Care Number – 734-930-3030
Pizza Hut Customer Care Number – 800-948-8488
Faasos Customer Care Number - +91-7700020020
Just Eat Customer Care Number - 080 6000 0600

However, it has been noticed that sometimes, even these reputed companies close the complaint without providing any fruitful solution. So what can be done if their customer support is not providing any solution? Firstly you can file a complaint at https://foodlicensing.fssai.gov.in/cmsweb/HOME.aspx. This is FSSAI based website planned to help people facing food related problems. Once you have filed the complaint by attaching all the supporting evidences your complaint will be forwarded to the Food Safety Officer who will then handle your complaint. The customer care number of FSSAI is 1800112100. You can even share your concern here. Finally, you can raise a complaint at your nearest consumer forum. We at Voxya help in approaching the consumer forum by preparing the case documents. We generally receive about 30 monthly food complaints.

Most Common Issue Reported for Food Safety Complaints

Nonveg delivered in place of veg

Item not delivered

Less quantity

Wrong item received

Items were missing

Stale food delivered

Bad packing

Payment deducted but no delivery

Delay in delivery

Credits and coupon not working

Refund not received

No Customer support

Charged twice

Dust particles Hair in food

Wrong item delivered (Swiggy) ^Open

I orderd for chicken nuggets and they provided me chicken popcorn which was some ** rs less ...and I ordered two in no....I immediately posted pics of the wrong item and asked for replacement.but the customer care guy was telling me that I reci...

Feb 23, 2020 by Ravi

Items were missing in food ordered (Swiggy Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd ) ^Open

I had my parents aniversery on ** February and for Rs.*** which includes chur chur naan thalis (*) which costs me Rs. *** it is a part of total meal i have ordered and where they didn't sent me this item as it was missing when i received the fo...

Feb 19, 2020 by Anshul singh rana

Delayed in delivery (Domino S) ^Open

Firstly I ordered one pizza at *:** p.m. but when it was not delivered I called them they said that as due to your number was not reachable so that's why we had cancel your order but then I ordered again at *:** p.m. and it was delivered at *:*...

Feb 17, 2020 by Megha Verma

Payment not received from Swiggy (Swiggy Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd ) ^Open

During the week **th-**th January,**** we received ** orders via Swiggy out of which ** were delivered by us and the remaining ** orders were canceled by customer after the FOOD READY was clicked by us which means as per swiggy we will be getti...

Feb 11, 2020 by Sumit Kumar Goyal

Package partially delivered (Swiggy) ^Open

I ordered sweets from anand sweets worth Rs**** via Swiggy(Order#***********). Paid the amount via online before delivering.But they delivered sweets worth *** only and bill provided by delivery boy was only showing Rs ***. Even after following...

Feb 10, 2020 by Minu Mary Joy

Swiggy Items missing No refund (Swiggy) ^Open

I have ordered one full Grill chicken with Order ID '***********'. But I have received only half Grill chicken. When I have asked for refund, they were willing pay only Rs **.**, where as cost of missing will be Rs ***. I didn't accept the...

Feb 08, 2020 by Habeeb Shaik

Swiggy sent me rotten food and didn t refund (Swiggy McDonald s) ^Open

Order number *********** Restaurant: McDonald's ordered food from McDonald's a burger and hot chocolate delivery executive couldn't handle food properly spilled hot chocolate infront of me. And the burger which was delivered had spoiled l...

Feb 07, 2020 by Dr Radha

Charging Cancellation fees (Swiggy) ^Open

I ordered food but was mistakenly placed at wrong address. my order was placed at *:** pm. Before resturant would have started processing order by *:** pm. i asked for cancellation. But for that * min instance they are forcingly charging money...

Feb 01, 2020 by Ashutosh Kumar Mishra

Poor Service by Zomato (Zomato) ^Open

Every time order the food from zomato they deliver the it very late. If we will chat with the customer service they give following excuses *. We do apologise for inconvenience that have caused to you. *. We will give you token of apology of I...

Jan 31, 2020 by Manpreet

Refund not received (Zomato) ^Open

I ordered food and paid online . Somehow food got rejected... I thought its rejected leave i ll get refund y to order again.. nxt day wen i didnt got any refund i enquired ... They said rider was calling and no was nt reachable so it got reject...

Jan 28, 2020 by Akash Mahilange

Robbery by Swiggy Delivery Boys (Swiggy) ^Open

The Robbery happened on **th Dec ****, by two swiggy delivery boys who came to pick the sandwich Order in mid night . Since after **.** we close the main door and accept only online orders via Backdoor. We gave the cctv footage to swiggy and in...

Jan 28, 2020 by Murugan Nadar

Bill not provided (Mehfil restaurant ) ^Open

I and my freinds went to mehfil restaurant ,DILSUKHNAGAR branch and had dinner for about ₹*** and the waiter gave the invoice for ₹*** only and then we asked for the proper bill. But he said that they will not provide bill for that. As we d...

Jan 27, 2020 by Don vinit X V

Charged for carry bag (Karachi Bakery Private Limited) ^Open

As per rule shop cannot charge for carry bag, but I was charged...

Jan 26, 2020 by Piyush jain

Stale food delivered (Swiggy) ^Open

I ordered chicken alfahm and something of red colour was spilled over it and as a result of which it was smelling stale and stinky and when I complained about it they simply told we will not repeat it in future what about my money I spent on it...

Jan 26, 2020 by Hari Krishna

Food not received and payment debited (Zomato) ^Open

We had ordered a food delivery from Zomato. We saw that the status of order updated as REJECTED. This meant we didn't receive the food or contact from zomato valet. Even after this we initiated a chat with zomato executive personal. They kept ...

Jan 26, 2020 by Shweta Asodiya

Had to pay twice for the same order due to their problem but I am not getting my refund even after (Swiggy) ^Open

I order an item from burger king on **th of Dec, ****. Even after paying online they asked me to pay the amount again by cod as they were not able to process my money. They assured me I would get the amout of *** in my account within * days. ...

Jan 22, 2020 by Sohini Banerjee

Manipulations of discount by zomato (Zomato) ^Open

Hi, I am raising this concern as Zomato is manipulating prices .so that even after applying offers .it remains unchanged. I have attached order details for the same.kindly look into it....

Jan 21, 2020 by Ashutosh Kumar Mishra

Delivery of Spoilt Food (Uber Eats India) ^Open

On *th of January ****, I had ordered chapathi's from the (Kalam Hot KItchen) Restaurant at Tambaram via Uber eats App, the total bill amount was Rs.***. The same got discounted to Rs.** after availing an offer. The order was delivered and sam...

Jan 20, 2020 by G.Gowtham

Full order does not give on order id (Zomato) ^Open

I give order from zomato in Tiyasa Restaurant for two chicken biriyani (serves with two egg) with order id ********** in **th january *.** pm . I call restaurant to give two egg with chicken biriyani , then they said to me that two egg can not ...

Jan 17, 2020 by Astik Barik

Different order (Swiggy) ^Open

I ordered a Mango wafer Thickshake but it was totally different from what I ordered. It’s Taste was also disappointing. I wanted a refund for that particular order as it was one hell of an expensive Thickshake, but they refused to do so. T...

Jan 13, 2020 by Alok Ranjan

Food was entirely spilled (Swiggy) ^Closed

Not the first time. whenever we report the food is spilled or not cooked or you get the ready made paratha directly from freezer swiggy shy away from their resposibility always. have been victim for these incidents a lot of time. not about the ...

Feb 02, 2020 by Kalaivani Sekar

Wrong item delivered (Swiggy) ^Closed

Swiggy Order ID: *********** I received wrong order. I ordered for *) Boneless Chicken and *) Chicken Patiala; Total cost Rs. ***. Whereas I received *) Chana Masala and *) Roti. I complain about it on Swiggy Mobile App. Also discuss o...

Jan 31, 2020 by Arif M. H. Khan

Chicken piece in egg curry and also stale food (Swiggy) ^Closed

I ordered egg curry. But in egg curry I found a small chicken piece. Food aslo stale...

Jan 30, 2020 by Damini Narsekar

Package not delivered (Zomato) ^Closed

The delivery guy just showed that food was delivered and when i called him he was not answering. Later blocked me. So my food never came....

Jan 29, 2020 by Shivam

Wrong item delivered (Swiggy) ^Closed

ODER NO #*********** INSPITE OF COMPLAINING SWIGGY THEY HAVEN'T PROVIDED A REFUND...

Jan 29, 2020 by Saquib daiyan

Order not delivered (Zomato) ^Closed

Hi I order food through zomato app and it is not being delivered...and the vallet person they provided also automatically diminished from that...so I am unable to trace the food item......

Jan 28, 2020 by Gourab mohanty

Robbery at Restaurant by Delivery Boys of Swiggy (Swiggy) ^Closed

Jan 28, 2020 by Gabbar

Not received order as expected (Smokin joe) ^Closed

Hi, I had ordered * pizza online from swiggy (smokin Joe's)) Airoli Navi Mumbai. Not received order as expected. Pepper and chilli flakes not received, pizza slices were misplaced inside the box. The condition of the pizza was not in good...

Jan 26, 2020 by Prakash Bawkar

Swiggy delivery of nonveg biriyani on placing a veg biriyani (Swiggy) ^Closed

Order number ***********. I received a non-veg biriyani instead of veg biriyani. Upon talking to customer care, they asked us to mail the pictures of the item. We did it, and we got a mail from swiggy support of sympathy towards our item misp...

Jan 12, 2020 by Shruti Karanth

False cancellation charges (Swiggy) ^Closed

Swiggy claimed that they made an attempt to call me. In reality i received a missed call from a "fraud" number. When I tried to call back, it didn't connect. Next thing I know, my order got cancelled and i was charged a cancellation fee of **.*...

Jan 09, 2020 by Joseph Ben Jacon

Order was cancelled by swiggy after confirmation (Swiggy) ^Closed

I am very very disappointed this kind of behaviour. I placed order with swiggy at ** and waited for two long hour.The delivery partner called me and asked me to come some other place if I want to take my order else he will not deliver the order...

Jan 09, 2020 by Utkarsh Singh

My id swiggy rider please req activate my id (Swiggy) ^Closed

Plz request my id ****** activate ...

Jan 07, 2020 by Amit

Swiggy misleading customers (Swiggy) ^Closed

Order No: *********** Cheesy Alfredo Pasta *. The image that swiggy has posted on the swiggy app is completely different from what was delivered. I'd placed an order for Alfredo Pasta. This was not my first order from Pizza Hut. There is ...

Jan 07, 2020 by Bhanu Prathap Yadav P V

Food not delivered (Zomato) ^Closed

I have placed an order today with ID: ********** with below address. However, food was not delivered as the delivery person went somewhere else and refused to redeliver it to the correct address mentioned with the order. When contacted Zomato c...

Jan 06, 2020 by Saikat chakraborty

Item missing (Swiggy Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd ) ^Closed

I've ordered * items (* veg fried rice, * chilli gobi, * panneer **, * falooda) on **-Jan-**** @ *.** PM with swiggy. Order # ***********. Among * items, falooda was missing. When I asked the delivery partner, he told me to contact the swigg...

Jan 06, 2020 by Ezhilarasu

Order Cancelled and amount not refunded (Zomato food delivery) ^Closed

The Zomato app is faulty. It always picks up random addresses from your address list if you do not specify it. This time it picked my old address and set it as the delivery address. I noticed it only after placing the order. I immediately used...

Jan 05, 2020 by Saifullah Dabir

STAPLER PINS in Veg Noodles (Zomato) ^Closed

Zomato (Restuarant name India Garden, Electronics City Phase *). For Order dated **/**/**** Order ID **********. *. Veg Noodles has STAPLER PINS....it was bought for kids and as I felt something sharp while eating and found stapler bins ...fe...

Jan 04, 2020 by Soumi Mukherjee

Charged 50 by cancelling the order themselves (Swiggy) ^Closed

I placed an ordered and delivery partner was requested to call me to an alternate number, instead he didn't arrive at my location and he cancelled my order and I've been charged **% of my total fees..The executive says I was not available at my...

Jan 04, 2020 by Roman

Stale harmful food (Swiggy Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd 125) ^Closed

*********** order no this i recived stale/ cold food which could have make any person sick after that as soon i recived it they didn't give me replacement.. The chicken was smeely that even dogs refused to eat it..how can you acept someone to e...

Jan 04, 2020 by Priyavrat

Cash on delivery mode has been blocked (Zomato) ^Closed

My cash on delivery is blocked from a month and after contacting them through app,mail and Twitter,no proper resolutions has been made from the support Team.They assumed me after few online transaction it will automatically remove my COD block...

Jan 03, 2020 by Aman Raj