The online restaurant ordering company Zomato removed 5000 restaurants from its list this month, this happened after the restaurants failed to meet the hygiene standards that are ordered by the FSSAI.

Zomato and the FFSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) are conducting an inspection to those restaurants that are registered in their application, this will happen in 150 cities in the country.

Zomato said that “it has delisted over 5,000 restaurants found non-compliant with the standards set by the FSSAI for hygiene”.

Mohit Gupta the CEO of Zomato said: “We are adding 400 restaurants to our platform every day. So, it is crucial that our restaurant partners are compliant with regulations and hygiene standards.”

Mohit Gupta added: “For this reason, we have been re-evaluating all 80,000-plus restaurants listed on Zomato, helping them be compliant, and delisting those that have failed to follow regulations in spite of continuous efforts.”

Zomato is now telling its restaurant partners to get a license that will prove that they pass and meet all the required hygiene standards.

As a result of the compliance that was required by the company, the total numbers of the restaurants that are registered on their application has increased to 30,000 in the last 6 months.

Zomato is an application that allows you to order food through it, it also shows reviews of the restaurants, its important information’s, food delivery options, and many more. There are over 1.4 million registered restaurants in their application which spreads to 24 countries, the application also helps serve food to 65 million users per month.