In order to create a favourable business environment, Punjab Revenue Authority decided to provide a reduction in sales tax being charged on commissions for home based chefs. The rebate reduced sales tax from 16% to 5%, allowing better profitability and growth potential for homechefs operating on online food delivery platforms such as foodpanda. Homechefs are essentially people operating out of their home kitchens who sell food through online platforms such as foodpanda. foodpanda currently have 5,000+ registered homechefs who have been taken on-board after stringent routine checks for food hygiene, quality, safety, packaging, etc. The company’s aim is to increase the homechefs base in the next two years and take it up to 100,000 registered homechefs. Nauman Sikandar, CEO foodpanda, while sharing his thoughts said, “A big thank you to the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) from foodpanda and our home chefs. The reduction in sales tax being charged on commissions for home-based chefs comes as a welcome respite. This move will help grow a new sector which has significant potential for financial and economic inclusion, specifically women economic empowerment. It would be ideal that other provinces also follow suit and implement the same for homechefs.” Must Read: Infinix NOTE 11 with 6.7” AMOLED Display is available for pre-orders on Xpark Shahzadi Asghar, a registered homechef at foodpanda, while sharing her gratitude said, “It’s very difficult to do business in today’s situation, that too a home-based business. Thanks to foodpanda and PRA that sales tax is now reduced by 11% which in turn has significantly improved our margins. I am now thinking to expand my food venture with this favourable initiative.” The visionary step by the Punjab Government must be supported by other provinces as the sector continues to grow exponentially across the country. With over 20,000 restaurant partners across the country and millions of food deliveries every month, foodpanda is Pakistan’s largest e-commerce and online food delivery company. foodpanda provides self-employment income opportunities to thousands of home chefs and delivery riders to earn a successful living as and when they choose to.
foodpanda celebrates International Chefs Day with its Homechefs
International Chefs Day, since its creation by the Late Chef Dr. Bill Gallagher in 2004, is celebrated globally each year on October 20th. The objective of this day is to educate people around the world about the importance of eating healthy, promote the career of chefs and help change the mind set of local communities. foodpanda Homechefs, took the initiative to recognize and celebrate their amazing homechefs and highlight their continuous efforts to change the food delivery landscape in Pakistan by offering healthy and nutritious meals. Besides celebrating the event at the office, foodpanda also partnered with Chef’s Association of Pakistan (CAP), COTHM and Culinary and Hotel Institute of Pakistan (CHIP) where their Homechefs were recognized at their respective events. Must Read: 5G Flagship Killers? What’s in it for the Consumers? foodpanda is providing sole livelihood earning or additional income-earning opportunity to literally tens of thousands of people across the country. To alleviate the adverse economic fallout of the Covid-19 crisis, foodpanda brought a dynamic social empowerment initiative that the country was in a dire need of. Their vertical, HomeChefs, is the initiative that has brought financial empowerment to thousands of home-based cooks in all parts of the country. Also, globally this vertical was unheard off and it has been launched in Pakistan for the first time by foodpanda. Indeed all these home based chefs need to be celebrated and recognised for their efforts, not just on one day but throughout the year. What we can do is support these home based businesses by ordering food from them more often and talk about their quality.
