Bizarre! Man orders food in Chennai, Swiggy shows delivery person coming from Rajasthan in '12 minutes'

A Chennai resident Bhargav Rajan ordered food from a restaurant but Swiggy’s tech front messed up with the location and placed his order at an eatery all the way up in Rajasthan.

Swiggy’s app showed that the delivery man was just 12 minutes away from the destination. (Image: Facebook/ Twitter)

“Thank you for ordering, your food in on the way!” If you often order food online using food-delivery apps, you probably get this message after placing your order. However, imagine what if you order food sitting in one city and the order is picked by a restaurant all the way up in far different state. Yes, this 'might' happen to you too. Hyper-local food delivery app Swiggy has to bear the burnt of delaying orders or delivering wrong orders at many instances, but this time the app has taken it a bit too far as it tried to deliver a food order from Rajasthan to Chennai. Yes, you heard it right! A hungry resident of Chennai named Bhargav Rajan ordered food from a restaurant nearby but Swiggy’s tech front messed up with the location and placed his order at an eatery all the way up in Rajasthan. But it got more interesting when Bhargava’s order was confirmed and en-route with Swiggy’s app showing that the delivery man was just 12 minutes away from the destination. Astonished by what he saw, Bhargava shared the instance on micro-blogging platform Twitter with a screenshot from the app and captioned it, “Wow @swiggy_in what are you driving?” The order was for a mere Rs 138.

Wow @swiggy_in what are you driving? pic.twitter.com/0MlL1cxbZ2

— Bhargav Rajan (@bhargavrajan) February 17, 2019

However, the food delivery app acknowledged the issue in its app and replied to Bhargava’s tweet by saying: This seems to be the work of God of mischief Loki. In all seriousness, we have highlighted this issue and taken it very seriously and are actively working on to avoid such mishaps in the future. Thank you for bringing this to light for us Hyperion. Bon appetite!

This seems to be the work of God of mischief Loki 😈 In all seriousness, we have highlighted this issue and taken it very seriously and are actively working on to avoid such mishaps in the future. Thank you for bringing this to light for us Hyperion 😉 Bon appetite!

— SwiggyCares (@SwiggyCares) February 17, 2019

The tweet quickly went viral as others were taken aback to know that it cost only Rs 138 for that distance. Here’s how twitterati reacted to this hilarious bug by the food delivery app:

Wow 😲😲 for ₹138 they're coming from Bangalore , this is called determination for work !!! Keep going #SwiggySurprise

— 🙏🙏 (@kaunrajneesh) February 18, 2019

First you learn deliver food on time especially during lunch hours. I faced plenty of failed delivery .

— Green Tea (@i_Anand_) February 18, 2019

When you order north indian food the food is from north India.. that's swiggy for you...

— கூகிளன் (@googlethalai) February 18, 2019

Ask them to pick me up too.

— ❤️😍 (@tanjorean) February 17, 2019

@swiggy_in @SwiggyCares I love momos.. I m staying in Banglore..I want home made momos from NEPAL.. Can I get it from there plzzz????😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

— KRANTIRANJAN N (@whokranti) February 19, 2019

12 mins to travel from Rajasthan to Bangalore 😱 Is that Iron Man?

— Joel James (@Joel_James) February 19, 2019

Order food worth ₹138 and sit behind your delivery man to get an almost free ride from rajasthan to Chennai.. 😜

— Saurabh Singhal (@One_Surgeon) February 20, 2019