Zomato agent schools customer on Hindi; Company fires staff saying it is against policy

Chennai | Tuesday | 19th October, 2021

Summary:

Chennai, Oct 19 (PTI) Restaurant aggregator and food delivery company Zomato on Tuesday apologised to a person, who alleged that he was denied refund by its customer care agent for not knowing Hindi and announced terminating the services of the employee concerned.

A tweet from a user who goes by the handle "@Vikash67456607" triggered a major Twitter backlash, with the hashtag "Reject_Zomato" trending on top at the microblogging site.

In response, Zomato apologised to Vikash and also issued a statement both in Tamil and English, stressing that the company stood for diversity.

However, company founder Deepinder Goyal later announced reinstating the sacked agent, saying it was "an ignorant mistake" on the part of the employee.

Earlier, Vikash tweeted he had ordered food on Zomato and complained that an item was missing.

"Customer care says amount can"t be refunded as I didn"t know Hindi.