{"id":1023909,"date":"2026-07-27T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023909"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:40:16","slug":"lpg-squeeze-shows-up-in-zomatos-shrinking-restaurant-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/lpg-squeeze-shows-up-in-zomatos-shrinking-restaurant-base\/","title":{"rendered":"LPG squeeze shows up in Zomato\u2019s shrinking restaurant base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of restaurants active on Zomato fell for the first time on record in the June quarter, as a months-long squeeze on commercial cooking gas forced kitchens across India to ration operations, cut menus, or shut altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Eternal\u2019s food delivery platform ended the quarter with about 328,000 average monthly active restaurant partners, down from 344,000 in the March quarter, according to its Q1FY27 disclosures. It was the first sequential fall in the metric in the company\u2019s disclosed history, which had climbed steadily from 313,000 a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of restaurants active on Zomato fell for the first time on record in the June quarter, as a months-long squeeze on commercial cooking gas forced kitchens across India to ration operations, cut menus, or shut altogether. Eternal\u2019s food delivery platform ended the quarter with about 328,000 average monthly active restaurant partners, down from 344,000 in the March quarter, according to its Q1FY27 disclosures. It was the first sequential fall in the metric in the company\u2019s disclosed history, which had climbed steadily from 313,000 a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023946,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023909\/revisions\/1023946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}