We’ve matured from the days of ramen noodles satisfying our mere hunger pangs, and upgraded to relying on delivery to satiate our palates. When searching for food delivery, one-stop shop sites like Campusfood, Delivery.com and Grub Hub have marked their territory.
Since we’re all hyper-connected but shy of actually speaking on our phones, online delivery is a natural fit for my generation.
A run-down of the big players in the race for the delivery game:
- Campusfood.com attests itself as the largest virtual food court in the country with a 2000 plus network of restaurants. Campusfood is also the savviest user of cultivating relationships with their customer base. They created a Facebook app called Food Friendzy based on the idea that playing online games and sharing the app can lead to wining free food.
- Grub Hub has occupied the green food delivery site niche: they buy carbon offsets on all orders and make it simple to decline extras (i.e. – plastic utensils and paper napkins).
- Delivery.com centers itself based on efficiency and convenience. The site saves your favorite restaurants and previous orders for simpler reordering.
- Other delivery sites with an influx of users include: All Menus, City of Mint and Foodie Bytes.
Paper menus once served as brand reminders even when hidden in a messy kitchen drawer, but now restaurants must rely on truly tantalizing taste buds. Going along with the current ‘back to the basics’ trend, restaurants need to focus less on gimmicks and more on ensuring quality food.
So please local restaurants, stop sending me paper menus in the mail. They just go straight to the recycling bin to rest in peace.
Photo Credit: moacir
Don’t forget about Foodler.com! My delivery strategy is always to search for the best rated place on Yelp and then order it through Foodler. Although, I recently tried Grub Hub and I think I might switch over. I really love that they have the no extras option!
When I was in college, Campuslive.com was the destination for local menus. The site itself isn’t dedicated to menus – it has a whole range of services a student might need – but it usually has all of the restaurants available. As the startup has grown, I’ve seen more and more stickers in local restaurant’s windows with their logo.
When I was in college, Campuslive.com was the destination for local menus. The site itself isn't dedicated to menus – it has a whole range of services a student might need – but it usually has all of the restaurants available. As the startup has grown, I've seen more and more stickers in local restaurant's windows with their logo.