If you live alone or just can't cook edible food, then there is only one solution that most people who deal with this resort to - ordering food online.

In such scenarios, most of us end up ordering food from one of the many online food ordering apps. And in Indian cities, Zomato is among the biggest players in the online food ordering market.

But after a video of a delivery guy from Zomato eating food meant for delivery went viral, you may want to start cooking food at home again.

The video was shared on Twitter by a user with the handle @Madan_Chikna with the caption, "This is what happens when you use coupon codes all the time. Watch till end. (sic)"

This is what happens when you use coupon codes all the time. Watch till end. pic.twitter.com/KG5y9wUoNk Godman Chikna (@Madan_Chikna) December 10, 2018

In the video, one can see the delivery man sitting on a bike wearing a Zomato T-shirt and with a Zomato delivery bag. He goes on to eat out of a food parcel meant for delivery. Then he keeps the box back in the bag and takes out another one.

After eating from the second box, he seals it and keeps it back inside the bag. He is then seen adjusting the sealing of a smaller packet, after which, he prepares to leave.

The video was widely liked and retweeted on social media. While many shared their concern over the services provided, others trolled Zomato savagely.

Ooh dear god @Zomato ...i am never ordering again Dracaryrs (@whereismabeer) December 10, 2018

Swiggy gives all restaurants,tamper proof tapes free of cost. What do you guys intend yo do? Put that cost also on the restaurant owners? Priya (@DP9JUNE) December 11, 2018

How can anyone remove that tape from parcel? Zomato only increasing price but never increased their service quality. shyamantak kumar (@Shyamantakkumar) December 11, 2018

Lol he's tasting every item to make sure it's good.. Siva Kumar (@nakshatrala) December 10, 2018

When did @ZomatoIN move into food tasting business Vinay Kumar (@vinayknl61) December 10, 2018

this is zomato gold they check to make sure the food is up to the mark for you Sanjay Manaktala (@smanak) December 10, 2018

In the era of nawabs, rajas and maharajas foods were tasted by head khansama before It was served to the rajas. Zomato has taken up this brilliant idea to make sure that it's customers' are getting what they have ordered for. Please cheer up zomato for this initiative. Atindra Mazumder (@atindra17) December 11, 2018

Zomato too shared a statement and a blog post after the incident.

"If true, this is unfortunate and not in line with our beliefs. We take this very seriously and will soon introduce tamper-proof tapes, and other precautionary measures to ensure we safeguard against this," wrote the company.

We take food tampering very seriously.



For more details: https://t.co/cHuLX1Bs4n Zomato India (@ZomatoIN) December 10, 2018

In the blog post, they wrote, "The person in the video happened to be a delivery partner on our fleet. We have spoken to him at length and while we understand that this was a human error in judgment, we have taken him off our platform."

They also thanked and welcomed users for highlighting such grievances actively.

ALSO SEE: Zomato sacks delivery boy after viral video. Internet is feeling bad now

ALSO SEE | Pritish Nandy falls for fake news and trolls Statue of Unity. Social media rips into him

ALSO SEE | Viral video: Bizarre trend turns nails into miniature lipsticks and make-up brushes