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Swiggy’s Food on Train offering expands network to 180 cities
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Saturday, 11 July, 2026, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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Swiggy LTd has expanded its Food on Train network to 180 cities across the country. With millions of families traveling for summer vacations, Swiggy's Food on Train service witnessed 3x growth in orders in Q1, 2026 on a YoY basis. In addition to this, Scan your Ticket, a newly launched feature this summer was well received with travellers having the option to simply upload their ticket for the app to enable it to automatically detect the PNR, and going ahead and ordering their food on the go.
In addition to this, multi-station journeys — where the same passenger ordered food at 2 or more stations on a single PNR — grew over 300% year-on-year, with passengers spending nearly 2.2x more on food than those who order at just one stop. The most popular two-stop eating trail was Bhopal to Nagpur, with over 1,300 passengers ordering at both stations on the same booking. Also, Food on Train service helped onboard thousands of new-to-Swiggy users daily, e.g. 66% of orders at Guna were from first-time Swiggy users. Swiggy Food on Train offering added 17 new stations this summer, including Gurugram, Udaipur, Bikaner, Davanagere, Kayamkulam, Nanded, Amravati, Shoranur, Arrah, Tadpatri & Nizamabad — expanding Swiggy’s flavour footprint across desert tracks, northern plains, Deccan and Kerala's lush backwaters. Also, many passengers used the Food on Train offering to place orders up to four days ahead of their travel date.
As travellers explored and traveled across the country this summer, there were some interesting trends in food ordered via Swiggy’s Food on Train offering. The most-ordered dish was Roti — with over 4 lakh rotis ordered on moving trains this summer alone, ranging from Tawa Roti, Tandoori Roti, Butter Roti, to Phulka. Masala Dosa, Aloo Paratha and the ever-popular McAloo Tikki Burger were the other popular dishes. Chicken Biryani was the single most-ordered non-veg dish. Also, as temperatures soared across the country, Mango Shake became the breakout summer star in beverages category— orders for the drink jumped nearly 10x compared to winter, making it the most seasonal item on the entire platform. Also, soft drinks surged 354%. Lassi was up 100%. Ice cream orders jumped 140%. Also, Burger — ordered nearly twice as often as the national average for the students.
Deepak Maloo, vice president-food strategy, customer experience & new initiatives, Swiggy, said, “Food on Train has witnessed exponential growth in the last one year and the last quarter has been no different, with a 3x YoY growth in orders. It is heartening to see the growth and consumer love for this offering across the country, with customers also booking their meals well in advance. Even in tier-4 towns and cities, customers witnessed first-time digital moments when they discovered Food on Train at a junction platform while their train paused for ten minutes. Also, the university hubs have emerged as a major contributor to the growth story as we have witnessed the highest ever surge amongst student orders during this quarter, with the last week of May recording a jump of 70% in student orders with orders peaking at Kharagpur, Kanpur, and Aligarh stations, as hundreds of thousands of engineering and university students boarded trains back to campus.
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