Loyalty points meet your dinner bill

On a weeknight, the modern Indian food order has its own rhythm.

- TDG NETWORK

You open an app for dinner, scroll past the “mostly ordered” carousel, add a comfort meal to cart—and then pause at the checkout screen, where the real decision often begins. Not “What do I want to eat?” but “How do I pay so it feels cheaper?”

This is the quiet truth of India’s food-delivery economy: discounts have become a parallel currency. They sit in wallets, hide inside memberships, and arrive as codes that promise to shave off a little guilt along with the delivery fee. The new Zomato-Amazon Pay tie-up fits neatly into that culture. It turns the act of paying into a small rewards game—especially for users who already keep money parked in Amazon Pay Balance.

Here’s how the loop works. If you pay for eligible Zomato food orders using Amazon Pay Balance, you earn “Zomato Money,” a platform credit you can redeem on a future Zomato order. The reported structure is deliberately simple: 3% back on weekdays (Monday to Friday) and 5% back on weekends (Saturday and Sunday). It is calibrated to match real behavior. Weekends are when many households treat delivery as default dinner, not a backup plan. A higher weekend reward is the nudge that says: if you're ordering anyway, might as well make it “worth it.”