Home delivery of cooked food, sweets, bakery items begins in Jalandhar

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 15

Sick and tired of cooking all three meals and still unable to satisfy the taste buds of family members? Things are set to ease soon, as the district administration on late Thursday night gave nod to restaurants, ice-cream parlours, bakeries, juice bars and sweetmeat shops to open for home delivery.

Quite a few families in the city are learnt to be somewhat heaving a sigh of relief but there are many, who would still prefer to keep outside food at bay amid Covid-19 scare. However, restaurants have boldly started advertising that the food ordered from them would be untouched by bare hands, would involve the use of technology and be completely sanitised and safe for consumption.

Most eateries have resumed their tie-ups with Swiggy or Zomato for home delivery. The craving for garlic bread is set to be over, as Pizza Hut has already started publicising the launch of its home delivery by using taglines such as ‘From our oven to your hands, we ensure your food is touched only by you! Experience the contactless takeaway and enjoy your favourites in the safest manner’. The city’s popular RK Dhaba also announced to start home delivery from today itself.

Aman Mittal of Lovely Group, says: “We may resume the functioning of our bakery and sweetmeat shops in a day or two. We need to work out on the number of employees who would have to be called in and adding up technologies to ensure that our customers go completely satisfied with regards to sanitisation. We are also waiting for the clarity from the administration on allowing takeaway facilities.”

A few bakeries in the town, including Parkash Bakery, Fancy Bakery, Kaypee Bakery and Dashmesh Bakery, had experimented home delivery of cakes last Sunday on the occasion of Mother’s Day. All these bakeries have since then resumed partial operations and are set to keep other snacks ready for delivery from the coming days.

Basant Kumar, who runs a juice bar in the city near Namdev Chowk, said: “Since our outlet was shut for the last two months, we need to clean and sanitise the entire premises first. We also need to make arrangements for takeaway or home delivery. So, it will be from Monday that we will get fresh fruits from the mandi and resume operations.”

There is good news for non-vegetarians as well. Even as some outlets had started supplying raw poultry and sea food items, cooked chicken, mutton, fish, shrimps and prawns, too, would be available at some places from tomorrow. Ashu Bhalla, who runs Vimpi’s and Shaolin restaurants in the city, said: “For two months, we remained confined to delivery of frozen non-veg. But from tomorrow, we will start delivering cooked food too. There of course will be some troubles in restarting the business as our staff has not cooked food for long, but we hope to live up to the expectations of Jalandharites once again. We also have developed an app for easy placing and tracking of orders by our customers.

What the order says…

• The eateries will be allowed to operate only between 7 am to 6 pm
• Dining out will not be allowed
• Restaurants will have to record body temperature of all employees on a daily basis
• Frequent disinfection of work surfaces, door handles and touch points will have to be done
• Face masks will be mandatory for the entire staff including delivery boys
• Social distancing has to be maintained at work
• Delivery vehicles will have to be sanitised regularly
• Delivery will have to be contact free for customers
• Touching door bells also to be avoided

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