The changing face of online meat ordering during COVID-19

Online meal ordering applications have changed the eating habits nowadays. When they feel hungry, they just take the smart-phone and submit the online food order via the food delivery applications. In recent months, all the governments imposed the lockdown to stop the transmission of coronavirus and companies from various industries provided work-from-home option for employees.

New era of meat ordering: All the television channels announced about the impact of coronavirus pandemic continuously. Governments were unable to control the crowd in grocery store, vegetable shops and meat shops. This is the main reason for a beginning of online meat delivery business. The trend of online food ordering system is shifted towards buying meat. When the customer opens the online food ordering system, it is showing meat varieties, quantity, price, and discounts.

Dispatch scheduling: Consumers can buy the meat online within a few clicks and receive the meat at the scheduled time. They can place the order for their preferred meat cuts at their time of convenience. Delivery schedule option helps to grab the customer attention. The meat delivery service assists customers to buy the meat in a safe manner.

Traditional shops: consumers have trust on local meat shops for buying the meat. Most of the people have no awareness about the meat bought from local shops is unhygienic and the products are not fresh and lack of quality. The meat sold at traditional shop is openly displayed and is also vulnerable to pollutants and insects or flies.

Online meat shops:Urban consumers have slowly moved towards online meat buying on account of various factors such as convenience, freshness, and hygienic meat at their doorstep. These firms sell custom cut, marinated and ready-to-cook products and it is a boon for people sitting at home and wanting to enjoy a non-vegetarian meal without the hassle of cutting and cleaning.

Hygienic: Online startups maintain the freshness of the meat through cold storage and other such processes. The startups are also working with slaughters to ensure that they follow scientific and hygienic slaughtering methods for quality meat production. Canning, Vacuum pack, foam trays, and shrink packaging are few packaging techniques that are extensively being used in the modern days.