They had Engg bandwidth to take fancy projects. 
  
 Or Engg said, kuch naya Acha project do

Product Manager

View food (in AR) on a plate or inside tummy or after it leaves body 🤪

Appreciate the innovation bro! 
  
 Why do you have to criticize everything.

I'd say it was pretty cool when I tried it with Domino's Pizza. I was able to look at what toppings I'd get more clearly. 
  
 And it definitely made me hungrier. 🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

Tech Lead

You could see little icon in few outlets showing you Augmemted Reality (AR) of food stuffs your are trying to order.  WHAT VALUE PM IS TRYING TO CONVEY TO USERS. kya sense hai is baat ka fellow PM's

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You could see little icon in few outlets showing you Augmemted Reality (AR) of food stuffs your are trying to order.  WHAT VALUE PM IS TRYING TO CONVEY TO USERS.
kya sense hai is baat ka fellow PM's

Zomato PM's : What was running their mind when they came up with View Food in AR feature

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As a Product person, I’m scratching my head looking at this feature and the use case for it. 

“You can see how your food looks like”
-We already have images
-Its not like the portion size is accurate. One can zoom in and out
-Not like this is how much food will look like after the delivery guy revvs his bikes

I get that AR makes sense for things that will stick with you for very long. But food? Its gone in 60 seconds! Why on earth would I want to see how my food looks like on my table?

Just curious, no hate.

Zomato AR feature

PM' s how do you see this feature, will it impact folks ordering more healthier foods

Eat Healthy Junk on Zomato

Zomato has only given the option to create multiple carts. But superstar PM thinks we can deliver from multiple restaurant. He has not even used the product and started giving gyaan on LinkedIn

PM superstar at it again

Product Designer

Would you rather be an Engineer learning how to Product or a Product Manager learning how to Engineer?

Answer is obvious mate. And it's already in motion. 
 Everyone knows current product management breed is a messed up fraudulent bunch. They will run into poverty if they don't change ways🙂

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- Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Zomato Ltd., announced on platform X that AI-generated food images will be removed from restaurant menus due to their misleading nature.
- Goyal cited numerous customer complaints about AI-generated images leading to breaches of trust, higher complaints, refund requests, and lower ratings.
- Zomato will start removing such images by the end of the month and offers partner restaurants a photoshoot service at a pass-through cost.
- The ban on AI-generated images also extends to Zomato's marketing team, prohibiting further use of such content.
- Netizens largely supported Goyal's stance, with some highlighting issues of multiple restaurants using the same AI-generated images. 

 Source: [Mint](https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/zomatos-deepinder-goyal-promises-to-remove-ai-generated-food-image-from-menus-says-leads-to-breach-of-trust-11723982901271.html)

Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal Vows to Remove AI-Generated Food Images from Menus

He doesn't give a shit about their misleading nature, he'll do anything and everything to show a growth in profits now

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Hey GV folks, long-time lurker, first-time poster here. I'm a product leader at Zomato, managing a team of 8 PMs. Today, I want to share a practice that's become the cornerstone of our product philosophy - and it all started with me being "punished" by my first manager.

At the cost of self praising, this is some really good advice so I hope you’re able to extract the maximum value out of this.

Five years ago, I was a cocky new PM, fresh out of a fancy consulting gig. I thought I knew everything about our users based on data and surveys.

My wake-up call came when I royally screwed up a feature release. Instead of firing me, my manager did something unconventional - she made me spend a week as a delivery partner.

I was pissed. Riding around Bangalore in the March heat, navigating traffic, dealing with hangry customers - how was this supposed to make me a better PM? But on day three, while waiting for an order outside Truffles (fellow Bangaloreans, you know the wait I'm talking about), I struck up a conversation with a few seasoned delivery partners.

What I learned in those 30 minutes blew my mind. They shared hacks they'd developed, pain points I'd never considered, and insights about customer behavior that no amount of data could have revealed. I realized I'd been building features in a vacuum, completely disconnected from the real world our app operated in.

That week changed everything. I rewrote our entire product roadmap based on what I learned. The results? Our delivery partner satisfaction scores shot up, and our order completion rates improved significantly.

Since then, I've made it a point to spend one day every month doing deliveries. It keeps me grounded, provides constant insights, and reminds me who we're really building for.

When I started managing other PMs, I knew I had to institutionalize this practice. Now, it's mandatory for everyone on my team to do a delivery day once a month. No exceptions.

At first, there was resistance. "We have data for this," they'd argue. "I can't waste a whole day delivering food!" But after their first experience, they got it. Now, our team meetings are buzzing with insights from the field.

Here's why I believe every product manager should regularly step into their users' shoes:

1. Data doesn't tell the whole story: Numbers can show you what's happening, but not why. Real interactions reveal the context behind the data.
2. Empathy drives innovation: When you experience user pain points firsthand, you're more motivated to solve them creatively.
3. It challenges assumptions: Nothing humbles you faster than realizing your "brilliant" feature is actually a pain to use in the real world.
4. It builds credibility: When you can say "I've done this myself," your team and stakeholders listen differently.
5. It's a reminder of impact: In the daily grind of KPIs and metrics, it's easy to forget that we're affecting real people's lives. This practice keeps that front and center.

Some practical tips if you want to try this:
- Don't just observe. Actually do the job.
- Engage in conversations. Users (and front-line workers) are usually eager to share their experiences if you show genuine interest.
- Look for workarounds and hacks. These are gold mines for product insights.
- Pay attention to the environment and context in which your product is used.
- Reflect on the experience immediately after. What surprised you? What frustrated you?

To my fellow PMs out there: when was the last time you truly stepped into your users' shoes? If it's been a while, I challenge you to give it a try. You might just find your next big product breakthrough while waiting to pick up someone’s 1 am order from Empire :)

P.S. Took a photo while waiting for my order, would probably have been fired long back had it not been for this evening!

Why I make my PM team deliver food orders - no exceptions

Why does your post sounds like some made up bullshit Gyaan I see on LinkedIn everyday.

Founder

Software Engineer

Deepi & Zomato seem to be killing it - they’ve shipped 5 MAJOR products in the last 2 months, seems to be running like such a well oiled machine.

Super long on Zomato🚀

Long on Zomato

Zomato dropped a new feature showing order counter for the day.
For users it might be a number telling what is their order count based on time when they place the order.  Although it Does not add much of user value, just a number. Useful for Deepinder maybe to track how Zomato is performing but not much on user side,after sometime users might not pay attention to this number


But going down the line, if this metrics gets connected with some cashback value based on certain constraints like 1st 10k orders , certain orders count every day etc. Then this can be a pushing factor for more orders for Zomato by building competition around this order counter
Some extra discounts for users also

What do you think about this feature??

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