ICYMI, recently Zomato India went viral on Twitter for calling out one of their customers after he cancelled his order because the food-delivery app assigned a non-Hindu rider for it.

The man, Amit Shukla, who is from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, tweeted to Zomato on Tuesday, "Just cancelled an order on @ZomatoIN they allocated a non hindu rider for my food they said they can't change rider and can't refund on cancellation I said you can't force me to take a delivery I don't want don't refund just cancel. (sic)"

Zomato replied to his tweet, "Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion," winning hearts all over the Internet.

Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion. https://t.co/H8P5FlAw6y Zomato India (@ZomatoIN) July 31, 2019

Clarifying his statement, Amit told India Today, "The constitution gives religious freedom to everyone. The month of Saavan is on, so I requested to change the rider. I will not order anything from Zomato now on. It was my right to deny, I was paying for it. I ordered food and they sent a non-Hindu rider. [When] I requested them to change the rider, they refused, so I asked them to cancel the order."

He added, "I tweeted this. There was nothing religious in my tweet, but a section on Twitter gave it a religious angle."

Amit apparently cancelled the order because he did not want a non-Hindu person to touch his food. However, we are not sure if he knows the religion of the person who prepared his food.

Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal also took to Twitter to slam Amit, "We are proud of the idea of India - and the diversity of our esteemed customers and partners. We aren't sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of our values."

Amit received massive criticism online for asking for a Hindu delivery boy, and many people even asked Zomato to block him.

(With inputs from Dheeraj Singh in Jabalpur)

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