{"id":18431492,"date":"2026-02-26T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/?p=18431492"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:52:41","slug":"why-are-you-paying-a-platform-fee-to-order-biryani-from-a-restaurant-thats-800-metres-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/blog\/why-are-you-paying-a-platform-fee-to-order-biryani-from-a-restaurant-thats-800-metres-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are You Paying a Platform Fee to Order Biryani from a Restaurant That&#8217;s 800 Metres Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s do the math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You order biryani from a restaurant nearby using a popular food delivery app. The biryani costs \u20b9280. Then there&#8217;s a delivery fee of \u20b949. A platform fee of \u20b95. A GST surcharge. Maybe a rain fee if it drizzled sometime this week. You end up paying \u20b9370 for \u20b9280 worth of biryani &#8211; and the restaurant got maybe \u20b9190 of that after commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody wins except the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>chotu.com lists local biryani centers, restaurants, curry points, and fast food shops so you can order directly from them on WhatsApp &#8211; paying the actual menu price, with no platform skimming from either end.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restaurant gets the full order value. You pay the real price. The food is the same biryani you&#8217;ve always loved from that place &#8211; now just ordered without the surcharge tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the biryani shop owner who has been cooking the same recipe for fifteen years and deserves every rupee of it, this is a game changer. And for you, it&#8217;s just cheaper, better biryani.<strong>Order from your local biryani center, restaurant, and curry point on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chotu.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>chotu.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do the math. You order biryani from a restaurant nearby using a popular food delivery app. The biryani costs \u20b9280. Then there&#8217;s a delivery fee of \u20b949. A platform fee of \u20b95. A GST surcharge. Maybe a rain fee if it drizzled sometime this week. You end up paying \u20b9370 for \u20b9280 worth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18431493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18431492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"faq":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18431492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18431709,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431492\/revisions\/18431709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18431493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18431492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18431492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local.chotu.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18431492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}