Food Deliveries and the lack of choices

I live way out in the country, and we have no places that deliver, not even pizza. The nearest restaurants are at least a 25 minute drive, and there are only a few that I like anyway. I like to cook, and I always have so much food here in my pantry and freezer, but sometimes I fantasize about having different restaurants that would deliver food. Once I went to Boston with a friend of mine who grew up there. Several times, we had restaurant food delivered by calling a cab company to go pick it up for us. It's the way a lot of people do it out there, and it was fun that we could get whatever we wanted by ordering it, and then having a cab driver pick it up for us.

There are basically all financial reasons. A driver must be covered on their insurance in some way. They have to have someone available to deliver standing by. They have to have takeout paper products (boxes and such). Gas prices were really high and drivers were making zip because of it. Mostly it is an extra hassle and a limited menu would be needed to work out. It creates a different atmosphere in their restaurant. Certain foods are better for delivery also. Burgers get too cold. Fresh ingredients would spoil easier. Winter is especially bad for delivery. It basically comes down to money and the hassles I guess. I'm sorry that this is all the variety you can get. I know that pizza places often have salads or soups and sandwiches too. That's a little more variety. But I can see that three choices would be limited! I know that some larger cities have services that will get food for you and deliver it to you. They picked up takeout from all sorts of restaurants. You might want to see if your area has that. You could also hire a neighbor teen to get takeout from a restaurant for you too. I know that Applebee's has "curbside takeout". You call in your order and then pick it up.

Do you have a Pissa Hut, they deliver most places. They at least have the pasta dishes and salads. I think it will probably get worse, before it gets better.

This is an excellent discussion, and I agree. In this area, Kentucky Fried Chicken does not deliver. Pizza places and Chinese deliver if you live close enough. For too many times they get lost and the food is cold. Or like last time, we received the wrong order. It gets to the point that ordering in does not appeal to me as much. I would love to have someone deliver a salad and homemade soup. I love international foods, and vegetarian foods.

Kentucky Fried Chicken does home delivery your way? Wow, you are lucky if they don't take your money and forget to give you your order here, let alone have them home deliver. On the other hand, most of our ethnic restaurants here offer home delivery, so we are rather spoiled for choice.

It's pretty much the same here, only in my city the Chinese restaurants are few and don't deliver! Pizza is our only choice for delivery. When I was in college I knew a guy who drove a taxi. Half his night fares consisted of picking up takeout from restaurants and delivering them to people. They would pay him for the food, the fare and give him a tip. I don't know if taxis do that anymore but maybe it would be an option for you.

Where I live you can't even get pizza delivery it stops about 1/4 of a mile from my house and I could walk to get it but still in the winter that is impossible and not good to do in the summer either with crazies on the road. I never knew that Kentucky fried chicken delivered..ours didn't. We no longer have one in business now. You are right though it is very limited.

You are right, it is mostly pizza and Chinese food that gets delivered. I guess German or French food does not lend itself to delivery or the demand is too small. I guess German or French people either go out to the restaurant or cook at home, same as Ukrainians. There is however a Japanese place in Winnipeg that delivers orders over $ 35.00. It is on Portage Avenue. Mooshiro Japanese Cuisine. I believe there is also an Indian Restaurant that delivers orders over $ 30.00 Can't think of the name. How about Swiss Chalet? Do you have Swiss Chalet in Winnipeg? It is much healthier than KFC, the chicken is roasted on a spit and they deliver. Most cities also have companies that deliver ready cooked frozen meals. You could look into that too.

I don't know why more don't offer delivery. It would make sense if you lived in a small town without many restaurants, but since you live in a city there should be more choices.

I think the reason why some restaurants don't have delivery is because they don't want the hassle of dealing with it. They would have to hire people to make the deliveries plus insure them along with other hassles that pertain to delivering.

I have to agree with you. I didn't even know that Kentucky Fried Chicken delivered. I have only had pizza and Chinese food delivered to the house. I guess Pizza Hut now has other items than pizza, but still, wouldn't it be nice to have Mexican food delievered? I know of a number that will do carry out though.

Well, that's a bummer. I live in Chiago and my brother actually found a website where you can find different restaurants that deliver to your area, look at their menus with prices, order and even alot of times pay for it online. It's really come in handy and helped us to discover a couple of restaurants with good food in our area that we might not have noticed before.

I live in Chicago and my brother actually found a website that has all kinds of restaurants that you can find the food you want, find out if they deliver to your area, look at the menu with prices, order and even alot of times pay for it online. It's really come in handy and helped us discover a couple places with good food we would never had known about.

yeah, here KFC does not deliver so if we want delivery there is Wok to you, that will go to several different chinese restaurants in the area and pick up and deliver for extra charge...and then there are the pizza places. Now Pizza Hut is one of the better pizza's around here and now they have pastas too... which of course I will try soon...LOL, but that is our only choice. I think it would be great if we had more options.

I have only ordered Pizza to be delivered so i did not know all this...I always drive to go get it, however it would be a problem for those that cannot go out like your husband.I agree it sure ly does not seem fair at all..Maybe we should try to encourage these eating places to deliver...especially to seniors if nothing else....I am in agreement with you on this...

I found I had the same problem living back in Edmonton. While I might be craving some really good Vietnamese, there was not one place in the city that delivered. Most of the time we ended up getting chinese from across the park, or Pizza. Even KFC didn't deliver to our area (they were short on delivery drivers -- the whole 3 years I lived there!). Now that I'm in my hometown, my problem isn't lack of delivery.. I'd happily go pick it up.. it's that there AREN'T any options. We have 6 pizza places, 4 chinese places, 1 viet/chinese place (with awful vietnamese food), Boston Pizza, Mr. Mikes and a few other mid-level dine-in establishments. There literally is not an option if you are craving ethnic food other than chinese. No Indian, no Greek, no Thai, no Caribbean, no Mexican. Nothing. I hate eating out here.

I didn't even know Ky Fried Chicken delivered. I'm not aware if they do deliver around here or not. But you would be correct in saying that chinese and pizza is the only type of restaurants that make deliveries.

Here we are limited to just pizza. Our KFC doesn't deliver and there aren't any Chinese restaurants that deliver in our area. However, we have lived in other cities that offered an interesting service. In Grand Rapids, MI you could pay $4 and have food delivered from a huge variety of restaurants. You ordered through the service website and paid via credit card. They ordered your food from the restaurant, picked it up, and brought it to you. It wasn't the fastest, but you had a huge variety of options to choose from and you could look through the menus to see what you wanted. I used to get this delicious chicken wrap that way...mmmm. Additionally the delivery fee was low enough that you didn't have to spend an arm and a leg on dinner. There was a similar service in Appleton, WI. It was through a booklet, they had few restaurants, but still more choice then three. It was also more expensive though I don't remember how much because we didn't order from them.

It's strictly a supply and demand business decision. If a particular restaurant thought that the demand for delivery service was high enough, it would start offering it but doing so without a customer base is not wise from a business standpoint. There are a few restaurants here in Florida that now offer call-in ordering with curbside pickup. Their next step would be offering delivery if the curb side pick up increases business enough to make it worthwhile.

hello suspenseful here where that i live we have many choices for fast food delivered right to our door step. the main fast food item in my opinion to be delivered would of course be pizza. one of our pizza places here offers lasagna, and submarine sandwiches. also we have local chinese places that will deliver food to you as well as having other local places like some bbq restaurants sometimes will deliver food to your house as well as some places like we have a local restaurant here called Steak Express. they have different food items on their menu. do a city search online or something that like for food delivery in your area or near by area of town. take care and have a beautiful afternoon.