Food Safety Complaints
Food safety 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.
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According to a recent survey more than 10% people are left unsatisfied with the food that was delivered through these online food platforms. The most common food complaints include:
- Wrong product delivered
- Stale food delivered
- Less quanity
- Issues with the quality
- Adulteration
- Foreign material in food (insect in food, plastic in food item, mettalic pin in food item etc)
- Refund not provided
- No customer support etc.
So what can be done if you a have food safety complaint in India?
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<b>1. Contact Food Aggregator</b>
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 food 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
<b>2. Report to FSSAI</b>
It has been noticed that sometimes, even these reputed companies close the complaint of a consumer without providing any fruitful solution. So what can be done if their customer support is not providing any solution? Go to FSSAI and file a complaint at https://foodlicensing.fssai.gov.in/cmsweb/HOME.aspx
This is FSSAI 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.
<b>3. Send a Legal Notice</b>
If you do not get any response from the food delivering app then you can also send them a Legal Notice to resolve your complaint. You can use Voxya for drafting and sending Legal Notice to them through a professional lawyer.
<b>4. File a Consumer Forum Case</b>
Finally, if you are not getting any resolution then you can raise a complaint at your nearest consumer forum. You need not hire a lawyer to file a case there. You can do it yourself in just 2-3 hours time. We at Voxya help consumers in taking legal action against food delivering apps by sending a legal notice and preparing the case documents to file case in consumer court. So, if you are frustrated, <a href="https://voxya.com/file-consumer-complaint?ref=onlComp">File a complaint</a> today!
Most Common Issue Reported for Food Safety Complaints
Complaints
Noise from Chimney Exhaust (Dominos Bangalore) Open
Hi Team, This is to bring in the inconvenience ,mental stress and health hazards that I am facing due to the continuous Chimney exhaust noise coming from the Domino's outlet on Kaggadaspura road. This crosses to a limit more than ** decibels....
Jul 03, 2020 by Arshia Fathima
Zomato delivered the unhealthy Smelly food (Zomato) Open
Hi, I have order a pizza from zomato on *-july-****.After ** min they have delivered the pizza in sealed box on my buildings gate. I took the delivery and come to the house and open the box.I saw pizza was in its worst situation.like piece...
Jul 02, 2020 by Girraj Gandhi
Swiggy did not deliver my Order and did not refund my money (Swiggy) Open
Order No: *********** with Swiggy. Order date: *st July **** I had ordered Brownies from Theobroma. This order never got delivered to my residence. I was told the packet was not delivered because my number was not reachable. I would like...
Jul 02, 2020 by Rahul Bhattacharya
Service and refund (Sd foods ) Open
Mujhe kavyansh man power solution ka no just dial se mila, kavyansh ki taraf se barkha naam ki ladki ne baat ki , mujhe ek cook chahiye tha , jisko provide karane ke liye barkha ji ne ****₹ mange jisme se maine ****₹ advance diye , or * feb...
Jun 28, 2020 by ASHISH GARG
8 month Salary pending (Ganges Indian Restaurant Beijing China ) Open
Ganges indian Restaurant beijing china .. is own * restaurants in china .. owners is Indian . From Pune .. base .. Work this company ** years , no government holiday, working **hours per day , His cut my salary * years **** cny per mon...
Jun 27, 2020 by Vikram singh
Received Expired food from Swiggy (Swiggy) Open
Received expiry food from A restaurant partner with Swiggy. The pickle which was sent witht he food was ezpired * months ago and couple of people ate eat. ...
Jun 23, 2020 by Mehul Sanghavi
Order not taken No food Delivered But money deducted (Pizza Hut) Open
My amount of ***.** was deducted from PAYTM wallet but order was not taken by the Pizza Hut application, also after calling them they only said it will get refund automatically without taking any details of the transaction. UTR : CITIN********...
Jun 21, 2020 by Aniket Wadkar
Credited points vanished before the expiry date (Domino S India) Open
Hello, I had placed an order on *th March **** with Domino's Pizza, Chiplunkar Road Outlet, Dombivali East. It was delayed and I received it after ** minutes to which I was provided with a refund of *** p[oints to my Domino's wallet with th...
Jun 16, 2020 by Mrudul Pansare
Food not delivered and no refund of amount paid (zomato food app) Open
I placed an order (order number **********) on Zomato on **.**.****. The delivery person arrived at the location but refused to come to my place upstairs and spoke rudely, over the phone. saying "niche bhi nahi aa sakte tum log". When I confron...
Jun 08, 2020 by AJAY JAISWAL
Package delivered and took away (Swiggy) Open
I ordered through swiggy for a cake and sandwich which I didn't recieve. In fact they delivered and took it away at the same time saying that the order got cancelled. And there is no refund. I don't understand..Is there no morals? Moreover the...
Jun 08, 2020 by Manu.S.H
Late delivered Item Missing and Tastes Awfull (dominos pizza india) Open
firstly in this pandemic they have received permission from government to operate and , then there are items on the app which I added which are missing now in my pizza, now the pizza delivery started approximately ** minutes after placing the ...
Jun 03, 2020 by Pratik Baliram Patil
Complaint Register against cadburry Dairy Milk Chocolate Company for compensation (Cadburry Diary Milk Chocolate The Nessle Company) Open
*. This is to inform you that buy ** Nos of chocolate i.e Diary Milk Fruit & Nut on ** May **** from URC Canteen of .This particular item should not eatable. Because the chocolate has fully fungus. My * years old son was ate on ** May ****. S...
Jun 01, 2020 by B.Prakash
Bad service (Zomato) Open
Order food from them they cancelled it after * hours and asked me to order again.The food was delivered to me in around * hours in total and the representative was only giving bot replies....
May 31, 2020 by Abhishaik Raina
2 Orders only 1 Delivered No Refund even after 1 month (Zomato) Open
On ** April **** I placed order on Zomato from Restaurant Pizza Peddlers for amount Rs***. OrderID ********** & OrderID **********. (All proof attached and systematically explained) I apologise as this will be very long to read so, I will ...
May 17, 2020 by Supreethkumar
Half quantity delivered (Swiggy) Open
I have ordered some essential items from Swiggy due to covid - ** situation . I realized first time that swiggy is taking advantage of this condition and providing less quantity which is ordered. My order id is ***********. I ordered half kg o...
May 17, 2020 by Utkarsh Singh
Bad biscuits (Surya food agro ltd ) Open
Mera naam lokesh dadhich hai mo. No. ********** me jodhpur Rajasthan se belong krta hu maine jodhpur se priya gold company ka clubcreme choco flavored biscuit kharida vo biscuit expire date bhi hai par itni jabardast smell aa rahi hai ki koi ja...
May 11, 2020 by Lokesh Dadhich
Received non veg instead of veg in box of veg labelled agromark and i m strict vegetarian (Dominos India) Open
I have ordered * dominos pizza veg but received * non veg pizzas. Not even one but both pizza are non veg i m jain by religion and i have ate non veg for first time and then realize that it was non veg pizza bcoz on box it was veg agro mark s...
May 07, 2020 by Siddharth Jain
Refund not received (Dominos Pizza) Open
Order No ***, Vashi. Order ID: ********* I paid for pizza via zomato app Rupees *** on **.**.**** for delivery. However from Vashi I got a call and an sms from Dominos that order was cancelled and refund would be paid to my account. Its more t...
May 05, 2020 by Bulti Karmakar
Cockroaches in swiggy food (Swiggy) Open
Dear Sir, Today i have order food Masala dosa from swiggy with his partner Gopal's but after open this food i found * cockroaches and both are alive. After trying to connect with swiggy but that time no one is helping me. Sir i stay in h...
Apr 10, 2020 by Ravishekhar
Utter Carelessness Corona Pandemic (Zomato) Open
Delivery agent not wearing a mask and gloves during this Corona pandemic. It's a shame that they can't follow basic safety guidelines during this pandemic. Sambhar delivered has hair strands in it. They can kill thousands of people this way...
Mar 29, 2020 by Raghvendra Kumar
Cashback for incorrect order (Zomato) Closed
I ordered meal from one of the reputed (now worst for me) restaurant on ** Nov ****. My order id **********. I received incorrect order. I dropped a mail to zomato customer care right away and they also accepted that the order is incorrect. Aft...
Nov 20, 2019 by Omkar
Bad quality food delivered (Swiggy) Closed
Hi I have ordered food of price *** and the food was too salty and too spicy. Later on I have called swiggy and they were not ready to give food replacement or refund. They were trying to fool by providing useless *** coupon for a food price of...
Nov 18, 2019 by Ajit
Charged for cancelled food order (Uber Eats) Closed
Hi, I placed order in uber eats with order id: ***B* on ** sept ****. I am checking status continously and order also picked. As soon as order picked, suddenly i could see order cancelled. I dont know why its cancelled. I tried a lot call...
Nov 18, 2019 by Anjan Kumar
Worst Quality and quantity (Zomato) Closed
Ordered mutton biriyani from basmati biryani nation, but recived ***ml boxes * instead of ***ml and the rice mixed with masala which a human can't eat only masala and oil it's have around ** ml of oil in rice, i didn't eat it....
Nov 17, 2019 by Chandu c
Dominos not honoring 30 min guarantee (Dominos Pizza) Closed
I placed a prepaid order with dominos on **th nov at *:** pm via order no ***. The order was delivered at *:** pm more than * hour late. I raised a complaint via concern no ********. However after multiple followups, dominos called back and den...
Nov 17, 2019 by Jayant kumar
Refund not provided (Dominos India) Closed
Pizza delivered after *hr **mints.it was already reflecting delivered in app.poor customer support.they told claim for refund.delivery agent and manager bad behaviour no apologies....
Nov 17, 2019 by Megha saini
Non Veg Item Delivered in Veg Meal (Faasos) Closed
I have ordered veg meal from The Good Bowl few days back and received the same with Non veg piece in it. When I called faasos guys they just refunded my money. What about sentiments and half the food that i had. Also on that same day they might...
Nov 15, 2019 by Nikhil
Different items and some missing item delivered (Swiggy) Closed
Ordered Meal from swiggy. On the App it was mentioned that I will get * roti, * vegetables(* paneer masala), water bottle, sweet,rice. However i received Parota in place of roti, in place of paneer masala received potato masala, didn't receive...
Nov 15, 2019 by Ashish jha
Price se jada paisa lene ke sandahrb me (Ankur restaurant ) Closed
मूल्य रेट से ज़ायदा पैसा लेने पर ...
Nov 14, 2019 by Avanish singh
Food not delivered and money not refunded (zomato food app) Closed
I gave an order on **th October , and Zomato delivery boy didn't diliver the order , so I claim for refund and more than ** days gone , until this time I don't receive my refund , whenever I chat with Zomato they always told that wait fo...
Nov 14, 2019 by Ashish Solanki
Overcharging of goods potties (Parle Agro Food Appy Fizz) Closed
Every shop in Kymore town(even if they are not restaurant or hotel) is charging extra money as freezer charge for serving cold drinks chilled. They make **% profit by selling ₹** bottle at ₹**. Many of us(customers) now unwillingly have to ...
Nov 12, 2019 by Jai Singh
Ordered veg but got nonveg (Swiggy) Closed
I ordered a veg paneer biryani worth *** rs.and received * eggs within it... I am pure vegetarian... I tried the swiggy help the agent gave me coupon code of *** and it not working... And the swiggy agent is not replying...
Nov 11, 2019 by Anuraag
Spoilt products delivered (Motherdairy) Closed
I ordered products of lassi from grofers and its spoilt after * days of delivering I contacted and asked what I can do, they said i have to return it. * of the bottles burst due to getting puffed up and I had to dispose them off and the other ...
Nov 07, 2019 by Gordon Dsouza
Selling cake etc at more than MRP price (Atithi Family restaurant ) Closed
Atithi Family Restaurant on Ranchi Hazaribag NH is selling cake etc more than MRP by pasting it's own Rate tag, which is illegal and against the law. Mostly in night when buses stopped there during journey than this restaurant sell goods with i...
Nov 05, 2019 by Sahil
Order delayed and cold unconsumable food (Swiggy) Closed
Swiggy kept me waiting and then delivered uneatable food..after complaining and kept me waiting after lots of harassment they said they will refund..do we order and wait to get refund??their executive committed that they will compensate for har...
Nov 05, 2019 by Niraj sharma
Food delivery getting cancelled frequently after waiting for hours (Swiggy) Closed
I ordered food yesterday from swiggy and they confirmed it. After one hour delay they called and said restaurant is closed so please cancel your order. Due to this on a festival day, I had to remain hungry. I was mentally agonized by this p...
Oct 28, 2019 by Rahul Kumar Gupta
Refund not received (Zomato) Closed
I was just searching for the food available form the various resturents near me. Accidentally I ordered an item from a restaurant . Paytm wallet was linked so amout of ₹*** was deducted. It was about **:** pm . I cancelled the order within fe...
Oct 21, 2019 by Sayan Kar Gupta
Double charged for food (Zomato) Closed
I first ordered paneer butter masala and lacha parantha and tried paying from PHONEPE, it said - PAYMENT FAILED!! I repaid from paytm and reordered ..now the delivery boy calls and tells me he brought two orders!! Why is Zomato cheating cus...
Oct 16, 2019 by Manpreet K
Delayed delivery and cold food (Swiggy) Closed
order was delayed ,executive gave wrong info ..keep on saying sorry and as usual apologies and no componsation of customer suffering..i will atach chat if demanded...
Sep 23, 2019 by Niraj sharma
Amount not refunded (Uber Eats) Closed
I ordered from uber eats on *st July ****. The amount was ****. The order was canceled from my end as we waited for * hours but they didn't send our order because they didn't have a delivery person. After that, I have been continuously calling ...
Sep 04, 2019 by Vandana Bhatia
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