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

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

Bad food delivered with poor quality money not refunded (Zomato India) ^Open

It was bad food with rotten meat in the momo served to me from wow momo and it was having inedible food in it, I complained but it was not solved and rather they didn't communicate any further although it was said it will be resolved. I need a ...

Jan 12, 2020 by Raunak Nayak

Poor Quality Cold Food (Swiggy) ^Open

Received poor quality food and Swiggy has refused to provide refund...

Jan 11, 2020 by Kevin Sanghvi

Wrong order delivered (Swiggy) ^Closed

I had placed order today *st Jan **** from Paratha Chowk using SWIGGY Platform, however I received wrong order. ...

Jan 01, 2020 by Aamir Khan

Order not received (Zomato food delivery) ^Closed

I am prashanth kumar. I have placed an order from zomato app to your one of your outlet on *st jan **:**am but i havent got my order, so i tried calling on *********** several times till *am till then all your executives have asked me to wait ...

Jan 01, 2020 by Prashanth kumar V

Received wrong food item but not refund (Swiggy) ^Closed

I ordered two item Maggi cheese burst pizza and paneer butter masala but pizza is different from what I ordered and item is also horrible delivered to me. Then I complain through email but all they had apology, later I asked for refund but the...

Dec 17, 2019 by Atul Prakash Prajapati

Order not placed after payment (KK Traders 101 G V NAGAR CHANDNICHOWK DELHI ) ^Closed

Respected Sir, i ordered for redmi* mobile ** nos. for Rs****/-(Rs *** each) on **/**/**** and made payment also through googlepay app. But after paying money my order was not confirmed and nobody is replying my call. Kindly do the needful. Tha...

Dec 02, 2019 by R Prabhakar

Order not delivered (Swiggy) ^Closed

I ordered a biryani worth rs. *** from swiggy today and I didn't receive the order and it was showing delivered on the app. When I contacted their customer care executive he told me that their delivery guy is saying that he had delivered the or...

Dec 01, 2019 by Shubham Bansal

Double charged for pizza delivery (Dominick pizza patialashowing 10 ) ^Closed

I ordered * pizza .they show *** RS amount after taxes.but when I pay online they charged RS ***.payment .after * minutes they deducted again of RS ***. Double cheating by zomatto.very fraud company.i will not order in future....

Dec 01, 2019 by Kuldip Singh

Received a totally wrong items (zomato food app) ^Closed

Order no. ********** I ordered a mutton liver and mutton keema from madeena hotel using Zomato But i received a totally different items chicken fry and chicken masala and then i raised a compliant against a this by means of mailing to given...

Nov 29, 2019 by Vijayaragupathy

Partial order cancelled and refund takes 5 days (Swiggy) ^Closed

I ordered food from swiggy on **th nov with prepaid amount. Part of the order was not available so got a recorded call from swiggy asking to replace items in the cart. Post that the second item i ordered on their request was also not available....

Nov 28, 2019 by Niyati Whawal

Received wrong items (Swiggy) ^Closed

Order id #*********** i ordered mixed sweets but i got laddus i informed to customer care agents but there is no proper help i want my refund right away...

Nov 28, 2019 by Saikumar

Double amount charged (Baba resturant phusro) ^Closed

When I ordered, the charge of meal is **%discount but I paid full amount.i m very disappointed. Your Swiggy order no. #*********** for Rs. *** is expected to arrive in the next ** mins. Track your order here: http://swig.gy/QOI*M*...

Nov 27, 2019 by Pankaj Singh yadav

Payment requests from zomato on google pay without even ordering anything (Zomato) ^Closed

I haven't ordered anything from Zomato since many weeks , still today i received random payment requests from Zomato on my google pay app . The payment request was of Rs *** , it was sent twice. Is it a scam to extract money without orders or...

Nov 27, 2019 by Neha Rani

Rude behavior of the deivery boy (Swiggy) ^Closed

Very rude behavior of the delivery boy and as well as got the melted the ice cream which i have already thrown in dustbin ... As well as while i asked for the refund they just kept saying the one line again and again...worst experience with swi...

Nov 27, 2019 by Kashish

Received wrong item (Swiggy) ^Closed

Order id# *********** i ordered chicken biryani and fruit punch...but i got veg biryani i contacted with swiggy customer care but they are not providing any solution please initiate my *** rupees refund immediately...

Nov 27, 2019 by Saikumar

Bad quality food received (Swiggy) ^Closed

I have ordered a order from swiggy order no. *********** it's quality was very bad and i got delivery after many time and it has pacakaging issue also this is very bad I have ordered many time from other account but this is very my order qualit...

Nov 26, 2019 by Gurnoor

Spillage of items in the order (Swiggy) ^Closed

I have ordered a beakfast items from the swiggy and what i got is a items with splillage of chutney all around the cover. When i asked for the refund the are not able to provide me.They said that they'll provide a coupon worth **rs. Please help...

Nov 26, 2019 by Varun

Money debited twice (Swiggy) ^Closed

I placed an order in swiggy on **th october **** For which I was debited twice. And every time I spoke to the customer support team I wasn t getting a proper resolution they kept saying I ll recieved an email I ll recieved a call from the sup...

Nov 26, 2019 by Sanjana

Order got cancelled and now im being asked to pay refund (Uber Eats India) ^Closed

The delivery person cancelled my order and now I'm being asked to pay fine ...

Nov 26, 2019 by Karthik niresh

Against Krishna Bakery raigarh cg (Krishna Bakery Raigarh Cg) ^Closed

I have ordered one cake rs.*** on **.**.**** for my daughters *th birthday on **th november. I have collected cake from krishna bakery shop on **rd november at *pm and made payment of rs.***. When we celebrate the birthday function after cake...

Nov 26, 2019 by R.P.Choubey

Charged for a bag with the restaurant's logo (Dominos Pizza) ^Closed

I am not sure of the law, but I am charged extra for a carry bag at Dominos Siliguri, with the brand's logo over it. As said earlier, I am not sure of the law, but I don't think its fair to charge for bags, and also promoting your brand along s...

Nov 25, 2019 by Nishant Jain

BAD QUALITY FOOD (PVR Cinemas) ^Closed

Booked a ticked for **th show *.** at pvr cinema mulund west mumbai for pagalpanti through book my show id number.WFPHKKQ in interval ordered food through counter for, but received bad quality food.tea was almost water and popcorn was stinking...

Nov 25, 2019 by DILIP SHETTY