Restaurant Delivery Service

I’d bet that almost everyone has had pizza delivered to their home at some point. This is probably especially true if you’ve got a teenager or two living in your house. With many pizza places offering restaurant delivery service it’s easy to order up dinner and have it brought right to your front door in less than thirty minutes.
What about all of us who are looking for a healthier alternative to pizza? We want the same convenience of having a restaurant delivery service bring dinner, but we are watching our figures so pizza isn’t our first choice.
There are actually more and more restaurants realizing that by offering home delivery to their customers, they are going to increase business. In fact, it’s now very common for many 5 star establishments to offer a restaurant delivery service to their patrons.
The price you pay for this service is really determined by the individual restaurants. Some will increase the price of the food slightly in order to cover the restaurant delivery service costs, which include extra staff as well as gasoline and car maintenance for the delivery person. Others offer a free restaurant delivery service for any order over a certain price. The reason they do this is really two-fold, one is to help cover those extra costs and the other is to encourage their patrons to purchase more. After all, if you can save delivery costs by spending more in food, why not do it?
Not all restaurants advertise this service as they don’t want to discourage people from coming into their establishment. If you are unsure if they do indeed have a restaurant delivery service, give them a call and inquire. If it is offered, they’ll explain the costs involved to you.
Some smaller cities are seeing the creation of businesses that realize the need for delivery. One business may offer a restaurant delivery service to several different restaurants. How this works is that after you’ve ordered your food, the restaurant calls the delivery service and they send someone out to pick up the meal along with your address. They deliver the food, you pay them and they reimburse the restaurant. The restaurant covers the cost of the restaurant delivery service by paying a set fee each time they need the service. This is a great solution in a city where restaurants want to offer the convenience of home delivery, but they don’t have the resources to employ someone to do the job on a full-time basis.
If you don’t feel like cooking dinner tonight, call a local restaurant and order up a healthy dinner. You can relax while it’s cooked and delivered right to your door. Now, if only there was a kitchen clean-up crew that came with the restaurant delivery service.