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.

Commonly Reported Food Safety Complaints in India

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?

How to resolve Food Safety Complaints in India?

1. Contact Food Aggregator
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

2. Report to FSSAI
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.

3. Send a Legal Notice
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.

4. File a Consumer Forum Case
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, File a complaint today!

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

Food was delivered late and was all cold and not upto standards (Dominos India) ^Open

I ordered a medium veggie paradise pizza, a garlic bread and mirinda which was under **min or free delivery, the food got delivered ** min late plus it was all cold and did not match uptill standards. i want my money back on the order. ...

Mar 10, 2020 by Meena Singh

Hair found in Haldiram Gujia bought from milkbasket (Milkbasket) ^Open

Today morning we have recieved * box of haldiram Gujia and found hair is sticking out on it. It's still there on it . I am uploading the pictures. I am also making video of it just in case it required in future. We need immediate action on it b...

Mar 08, 2020 by Jatin kinra

Zomato Auto Order Cancellation (Zomato) ^Open

For three months now our restaurant has been facing auto cancellation of orders on the Zomato platform with no reliable communication from the Zomato support team. The message sent to the customers is that the restaurant is at fault. We are los...

Mar 04, 2020 by Rannaghar Kitchen

Refund related (zomato food app) ^Open

I had order food from Zomato, but delivery agent not provide me any food and unable to contact with delivery agent. And my food cancel by Zomato but they say your amount is not refundable due to wastage of food.here I was hungry waiting for my ...

Mar 02, 2020 by Aman Kumar Singh

Food Not Delivered but the status is Delivered (zomato food app) ^Open

On **th Feb **** I have ordered Fried Rice worth Rs *** from Orange Wok restaurant using Zomata App. When I tracked the deliver it was shown as delivered but actually its was delivered to me. When I contacted Zomato they are simply saying I wil...

Feb 29, 2020 by Sankar

Scam inside zomato Item cancelled (Zomato) ^Open

For order ID :********** the item was cancelled for no reason. For *.**hrs there was no activity, i contact restaurant he say he reported no response. My customer support chat is blocked by them for no reason . Only way i can contact them is ma...

Feb 28, 2020 by Dinesh

Issue of wrong packing (Rolls King) ^Open

The issue is chicken food packed in veg packet. what should i do..My brother is pure vegetarian & he eat a chicken. now he is not fine doing vomiting and all. he is not well right now. he is ** year old boy and he never eaten a non veg product ...

Feb 25, 2020 by Harsh Bishnoi

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

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

Food wasn't delivered and no refund received (Zomato India) ^Closed

Hi, I ordered food on **th November, **** evening (Order id: ********** Order amount: Rs. ***/-), waited for long but didn't receive any. Later I received an SMS from Zomato saying since I wasn't available to take the delivery, the order was ...

Nov 24, 2019 by Omkar Khot

Bad food quality (Uber Eats) ^Closed

I ordered food from Uber Eats But delivered food is not same as oderd on the app food quality is also very worst salad not deliverd with food while it is available in the list delivered jalebi quality is ver bad...

Nov 24, 2019 by PRAMOD SINGH

Food not delivered (Ubereats) ^Closed

I order food from ubereats,i wait for an hour , After an hour,they do not delivered food to me but they mark it delivered,and my money is deducted and when i complaint they said we cant do anything,...

Nov 22, 2019 by Anant kumar singhal

Bad taste in ice cream (Giani Ice Cream Private Limited) ^Closed

I got fruit cream packed from Giani’s outlet in HUDA Metro Station,Gurgaon on **/**/**** around * in the evening.I paid Rs.** for *** gm.On reaching home when I ate the fruit cream,it was having very bad sour taste and was also smelling.It se...

Nov 22, 2019 by Prema Priyadarshini

Food not delivered (Uber Eats) ^Closed

I ordered a food from a restaurent , and the delivery boy picked up the order rom the restaurent but the delivery did not reach me , i made online cash payment i want refund or the delivery boy should be answerable for what he did ...

Nov 22, 2019 by Joicy Jose

Food not delivered and no refund received (Zomato) ^Closed

Hi, I ordered food on **th November, **** evening (Order id: **********. Order amount: Rs. ***/-), waited for long but didn't receive any. Later I received an SMS from Zomato saying since I wasn't available to take the delivery, the order was ...

Nov 22, 2019 by Pearl

GST Bill Not Provided (Swiggy) ^Closed

I have ordered from swiggy with order number #*********** and they charged GST but not provided the GST Bill , When I asked them they told restaurant cannot provide GST Bill.I cannot claim without GST Bill in my company...

Nov 21, 2019 by Naveen Kuchanplly