Food delivery platforms agree terms with Bengaluru hotel bodies to avert boycott

Food delivery platforms Swiggy and Zomato have agreed to seek a restaurant’s approval before running discounts funded by that restaurant after the Bangalore Hotels Association (BHA), Karnataka State Hotels Association, National Restaurant Association of India, and the city’s bar and restaurant associations, threatened to take the city’s restaurants off the apps from August 15 over unauthorised promotions and disputed deductions from payouts.

Following the assurances from the platforms, the associations have deferred the deadline to September 1, giving them until August 31 to implement the changes.