I'm hungry, who am I gonna call?
I have a great business idea for someone who wants to start a business: restaurant delivery.What I mean is, the person could accept take-out orders from all Grove restaurants then tack on a delivery charge and they would have a nice little business going. Perhaps the restaurants would give the delivery company a discount so they would not have to tack on the extra cost.
Aside from the usual suspects: the pizza places, who else delivers? I get this question a lot from new residents to the Grove. I think the restaurants would do more business and it would be a convenient thing to have.
South Beach has a service like this, they put out a book each month with the menus printed and then you call one central number for the ordering. But it can work so many ways with texting and Twittering and all. The restaurant can take the order and just text or twitter the delivery guy or the delivery guy can take the orders, or whatever. It's doable.
This is a void that needs filling for any of you entrepreneurs out there. I will offer free ads in the Grapevine for anyone who starts this service. You can do it by car, bike or even skateboard, just get the food there hot!
posted by Tom Falco at 2:00 PM
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They had this in Boston and DC when I lived there. The beauty of it is that you can get delivery from restaurants that do not deliver. Typically, the way it works is the delivery service has a menu book (it could be on-line now), with prices that include whatever discount the delivery service might have worked out with the restaurant and a delivery charge. Typically it cost a little more than eating at the restaurant. The delivery service pays the restaurant. You pay them by credit card over the phone or cash on delivery when they bring the food. The catch is for it to work the service has to be responsive and responsible, or they make the restaurants look bad by delivering cold food or taking too long.
The Grove has that same kind of food delivery book now too, I just got it in the mail. There are a bunch of Grove restaurants in there, Jaguar, Cheesecake, etc, along with Gables restaurants. I thought the charges were excessive though... a delivery fee, a processing fee, they just kept piling it on, Ticketmaster style. You end up paying a premium that's much much higher than tax + tip at the restaurant.
There is a service like this available in the Gables/Grove area. http://www.deliciousdelivery.net/
I am orginally from NJ and we have a service like this it is AMAZING!!! It would be a wonderful idea for the grove!
In Gainesville there was an awesome website, campusfood.com which would deliver from a lot of restaurants around time. It's more university-centric, but it's a damn good idea if someone can make a sustainable model for it. Grovemenus.com, anyone?
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