Zomato's name was not the first choice for Deepinder Goyal; Delivery giant's founder reveals interesting veggie tale

Zomato's founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal while appearing on Netflix's Kapil Sharma Show shared an intriguing story behind his company's iconic name.

The food delivery giant, which began its journey as a restaurant discovery platform, wasn't initially meant to be called Zomato at all.

During the show, the host Kapial had asked meaning of Zomato and the tricky pronounication of the giant to Deepinder


“I saw an ad where cricketers Harbhajan Singh and Sreesanth argue, saying it’s ‘Zomato’ or ‘Zomaato’. So, what’s the real story? Where did the name come from?”, added Kapil.

Goyal revealed that initially he wanted to name the company as tomato. “This, ‘tomato’ or ‘tomaato’, whatever you want to say - we wanted that name as the dot com. We wanted 'tomato dot com,' but we didn't get that domain,” said Goyal.

In a failed attempt to get the desired domain name Goyal revealed that he changed one letter in the name and that is how tomato became Zomato and the company got the domain name — Zomato.com.