In today’s online-driven economy, people want food deliveries to be fast and simple. As great as it is to create an online order system on your own website, people have grown used to using popular sites like Seamless, Eat24, GrubHub, and Delivery.com to make their orders. If you partner with some of these companies you will appease regular customers and probably attract many new ones who will discover you on these sites.

If you are opening in a city it is essential that you pair with these services, as city-folk order delivery far more often than those in rural or suburb areas. It is true that these sites will take a bit out of your profit margins, but there is no substitute for meeting the expectations of average customers, which today is using these delivery sites.

On top of partnering with these delivery services we would recommend carrying out your own delivery service, using staff as delivery persons. Delivery orders can be placed by phone or online through an interactive menu on your website. By creating your own delivery service you will hopefully encourage some existing customers to use it rather than third party sources, and this will give you higher profit margins.

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