New Delhi, Oct. 29 -- When someone offers to pay for a meal, choosing what to eat can sometimes become an exercise in restraint. A guest might skip a favourite dish or opt for something cheaper, not because they do not want it, but because they do not want the host to spend more.

A suggestion from Delhi-based LinkedIn user Ayushmaan Agarwalla seeks to address this familiar social discomfort through a simple change to Zomato's ordering experience -- hide the prices while guests choose their food.

The idea, called 'Mehmaan Mode', caught the attention of Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal, who responded to Agarwalla's LinkedIn post by saying the company would introduce the feature that week.

Mehmaan Mode is a proposed option that would allow ...