Takeaway driver sacked after being caught on camera EATING customer's order

A takeaway driver in India has been sacked after footage of him tucking into a customer’s food order went viral.

Viewed more than 10,000 times, the video, captured in Madurai, in the south of the subcontinent, shows a man in a Zomato t-shirt eating food from boxes before resealing the containers and returning them to his deliver bag.

The video has been viewed thousands of times on social media and the firm has now apologised for the man’s actions.

The firm said it has a “zero tolerance policy” towards tampering and has sacked the delivery man in question.

In a statement Zomato acknowledged that the video suggests the man was eating food meant for customers.

The company said: “We have spoken to him at length and while we understand that this was a human error in judgement, we have taken him off our platform.”

The firm has promised to soon introduce “tamper-proof tapes” and “educate their delivery fleet” as a further precaution against food tampering.