In October 2018, Yandex acquired Partiya Edy ("Food Party"), a meal kit service that operates in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which was renamed Yandex.Chef.

[1] The online service relies on small warehouses across Moscow and St. Petersburg stocked with about 2,000 items and uses bike couriers to deliver orders.

On April 19, 2019, following a ten-hour shift delivering food, 21-year-old courier Artyk Orozaliev collapsed and died.

[9] After the incident, the company launched an internal review and contacted the family of the deceased and offered financial assistance.

[11] Yandex changed the mechanism for choosing breaks for couriers: according to the new scheme, it became enough to press the pause button in the application.