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Swiggy: which rider, and when should they start riding?

How a food-delivery platform gets about 2 million orders a day from kitchens it doesn't run to doors across the city: dispatching riders just in time for a predicted ready time, matching them in 20-second rounds per city, putting a clock on every kitchen step, and promising a calibrated quantile instead of an average.

01 · A Saturday biryani
SQ-17 · Swiggy Food Delivery

A kitchen you don't run. A rider who could be anywhere.

Biryani, 3 km, 34 minutes

It's 8:40 on a Saturday night.