Food delivery app ‘Robinhood’ waives fees amidst Bangkok’s lockdown

A Bangkok-based food delivery application announced on Sunday that it will waive the delivery fee for customers living in the capital and nine provinces where the curfew and restrictions are being imposed. 

Siam Commercial Bank, or SCB, who operates Robinhood, said that the food delivery platform will not collect delivery charges for the service for 15 days, from July 11 to 25, which covers the time Bangkok is imposing lockdown restrictions, including an overnight curfew and a ban on dining-in at eateries.

However, the high demand for orders may have caused the platform to crash since yesterday – an issue worsened by Robinhood’s limited number of delivery riders.  Robinhood apologized for the hiccups this morning and said that it will limit waiving its delivery fees to orders for restaurants located within a 10-kilometer radius of the customer. 

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