Bengaluru Sep 27 (IANS) Food delivery platform Foodpanda on Thursday announced the expansion of its services to 13 more Indian cities taking its presence to a total of 20 cities across the country.
"We have launched our services in 13 cities including Jaipur Chandigarh Kanpur Lucknow Indore Ahmedabad Nashik Nagpur Mysuru Bhubaneswar Guwahati Visakhapatnam and Coimbatore " city-based online cab-aggregator Ola-owned Foodpanda said in a statement here.
Foodpanda has tied up with 3 000 restaurants and 5 000 delivery personnel across the 13 cities and aims to have 15 000 more delivery persons working with it in the coming six months the statement added.
The platform s services have so far been present in seven cities -- Bengaluru Mumbai New Delhi Kolkata Chennai Hyderabad and Pune. It claims to deliver about 3 lakh orders a day across these cities currently.
The company will explore opportunities to deliver its services to a wider pool of consumers across the 13 cities said Foodpanda India s Chief Executive Pranay Jivrajka in the statement.
"Foodpanda is also learning from Ola s experience of building hyperlocal solutions to solve unique local challenges " he added.
Founded in 2012 Germany s Berlin-based Foodpanda is a global food delivery company present across 190 cities in 12 countries including Singapore Thailand Malaysia Hong Kong and Taiwan. Its India business was acquired by Ola in December 2017 for $200 million.

--IANS bha/mag/sed