Run a restaurant or cloud kitchen around Teynampet that takes orders through Swiggy or Zomato, and your GST filing has a quirk most restaurant owners get wrong the same way: since January 2022, the platform itself pays GST on those specific orders, not you — but you still have to report the value correctly in your own return, and skipping that is exactly what draws a notice. GST return filing starts at ₹5,990 + GST per year for up to 30 bills a month. Call or WhatsApp 70 9232 9232.
Table of Contents
- A lot of Teynampet’s food business runs on office lunch orders
- Multi-outlet and cloud-kitchen brands need extra care here
- How Section 9(5) actually works — and why it’s not TCS
- What we actually do for Teynampet’s restaurants and cloud kitchens
- Pricing — fixed, no hidden charges
- How it actually works once you call
- Mistakes we see Teynampet-area kitchens make
- 1. Not reporting Swiggy/Zomato orders at all
- 2. Mixing multiple cloud-kitchen brands into one untracked number
- 3. Charging the wrong rate on dine-in or takeaway orders
- Frequently asked questions
- Do I need to charge GST on orders that come through Swiggy or Zomato?
- If the platform already pays the tax, why does it matter for my filing?
- I run two virtual kitchen brands from the same kitchen — do I need two GST registrations?
- What GST rate applies to my dine-in and takeaway sales?
- How much does GST filing cost for a restaurant or cloud kitchen?
- Do you work with kitchens outside Teynampet too?
- I’ve already received a GST notice about unreported aggregator sales — can you help?
- Can I file quarterly instead of monthly?
- Related guides
- Talk to a consultant, not a call centre
A lot of Teynampet’s food business runs on office lunch orders
Between the corporate offices along Anna Salai and the residential streets around them, this part of Chennai does a steady lunch and dinner delivery trade — a good number of kitchens here get most of their volume through Swiggy and Zomato rather than a dine-in counter. We work with several of them, and the filing conversation always starts in the same place: are your aggregator orders being reported correctly in your monthly return, or is the assumption that “the platform already paid the tax, so there’s nothing for me to do” — because that assumption is the single most common mistake we see, and it’s the one that actually triggers notices.
Multi-outlet and cloud-kitchen brands need extra care here
If you run more than one outlet or a cloud-kitchen brand operating out of a shared kitchen space listed separately on Swiggy and Zomato, each additional physical location within Tamil Nadu typically needs to be added as an additional place of business under your existing GSTIN rather than treated as invisible — and if you run outlets in another state entirely, that’s a separate registration, not an add-on. Virtual “kitchen brands” that share one physical kitchen but list as different restaurant names on the apps don’t each need their own GST registration if they’re genuinely the same legal business — but they do need to be reconciled together, correctly, so nothing gets double-counted or missed.
How Section 9(5) actually works — and why it’s not TCS
A lot of restaurant owners assume Swiggy and Zomato “deduct tax” from their payout the way Amazon does for online sellers — that’s not what happens here. Under Section 9(5) of the CGST Act, food delivery aggregators are treated as the deemed supplier for restaurant orders placed through their apps: they collect 5% GST directly from the customer and pay it to the government themselves, and they don’t get to claim input tax credit on it. There’s no TCS deduction and no GSTR-8 involved for these particular orders — that mechanism is for goods sold through marketplaces like Amazon, not restaurant services under 9(5). What does still fall on you is reporting the value of these orders correctly in your own GSTR-3B, in the specific table meant for supplies where tax is paid by the e-commerce operator — separately from your direct sales, where you remain responsible for charging and paying GST yourself.
What we actually do for Teynampet’s restaurants and cloud kitchens
- Monthly reconciliation against Swiggy/Zomato reports — checked against your own filing so nothing goes unreported.
- Clean separation of direct sales and aggregator sales — reported correctly, in the right table, every month.
- Multi-outlet and virtual-kitchen handling — additional places of business added correctly, nothing double-counted.
- Rate checking on your direct sales — confirming 5% versus 18% treatment matches your actual setup.
- Direct access to your consultant — the same person, every month, over WhatsApp.
Pricing — fixed, no hidden charges
GST return filing starts at ₹5,990 + GST per year for up to 30 bills a month. Running high volume across multiple outlets or brands? Call 70 9232 9232 and our sales team will quote a fair price based on your real order volume — fixed pricing either way.
How it actually works once you call
Call or WhatsApp 70 9232 9232 and we start with the basics — how many outlets or kitchen brands you run, what share of orders come through Swiggy and Zomato versus dine-in or takeaway, roughly how many bills a month. We ask for read access to your aggregator reports and existing sales records, and the first month goes into building a clean baseline: separating your direct sales from aggregator sales properly and checking a few months back for anything that’s gone unreported. After that it settles into a routine — you send your monthly figures over WhatsApp around the same date each cycle, we reconcile against Swiggy and Zomato’s own reporting, and file on schedule. Most kitchens we take over from self-filing tell us this is the first time their aggregator orders have actually been checked against their own return before submission.
Mistakes we see Teynampet-area kitchens make
1. Not reporting Swiggy/Zomato orders at all
The tax being paid by the platform doesn’t mean the order disappears from your filing. It still needs to show up in your monthly return, in the right place — leaving it out entirely is the single biggest cause of the notices we see.
2. Mixing multiple cloud-kitchen brands into one untracked number
If you’re running two or three virtual brands out of the same kitchen, each listed separately on the apps, treating them as one blurry total makes it nearly impossible to reconcile against what each brand’s Swiggy or Zomato account actually reports — call 70 9232 9232 if you’re not sure your current filing handles this correctly.
3. Charging the wrong rate on dine-in or takeaway orders
Your own direct sales — dine-in, takeaway, phone orders — follow separate rules from your aggregator orders, and most standalone restaurants and cloud kitchens should be charging 5% with no input tax credit on them. Getting this rate wrong is a different problem from the aggregator reporting issue, but it’s just as common.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to charge GST on orders that come through Swiggy or Zomato?
No. Under Section 9(5) of the CGST Act, Swiggy and Zomato are the deemed supplier for these orders and pay 5% GST directly to the government themselves. You don’t charge or collect GST on these specific orders.
If the platform already pays the tax, why does it matter for my filing?
Because you still need to report the value of these orders in your own GSTR-3B, in the correct table, even though you’re not paying tax on them. Leaving them out entirely is the most common reason restaurants on these platforms get a notice.
I run two virtual kitchen brands from the same kitchen — do I need two GST registrations?
Not if they’re genuinely the same legal business operating from one physical location — one GSTIN covers both, but the sales from each brand’s Swiggy and Zomato listings need to be reconciled together correctly.
What GST rate applies to my dine-in and takeaway sales?
Most standalone restaurants and cloud kitchens charge 5% with no input tax credit. The 18%-with-ITC rate generally applies only to restaurant services at specified premises — hotels with room tariffs above ₹7,500 a night.
How much does GST filing cost for a restaurant or cloud kitchen?
From ₹5,990 + GST per year for up to 30 bills a month. Higher volume across multiple outlets gets a custom quote — call 70 9232 9232.
Do you work with kitchens outside Teynampet too?
Yes — we’re based in Teynampet, next to the metro station, but we work with restaurants and cloud kitchens across Chennai, all handled over WhatsApp.
I’ve already received a GST notice about unreported aggregator sales — can you help?
Yes. Call 70 9232 9232 and bring the notice — we’ll identify exactly what’s missing from your filing and respond correctly within the deadline given.
Can I file quarterly instead of monthly?
If your turnover qualifies for the QRMP scheme, yes. Call 70 9232 9232 and we’ll confirm whether you qualify and set up the right filing schedule.
Related guides
- GSTR-3B Late Fees, Interest & Penalties Explained
- GST Return Filing for Restaurants & Cloud Kitchens in Chennai
- GST Return Filing in Teynampet, Chennai
- GST Return Filing for Amazon, Flipkart & Meesho Sellers in Teynampet
- GST Registration for Swiggy & Zomato Restaurant Partners in Teynampet
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