Lunchtime sandwich/salad delivery service

anniehoo

I normally bring my lunch with me to work but haven't been shopping this week so the fridge is baaaare, so it was porridge today from the work cupboard Woulda killed for a roll though.

Had no cash on me either and I would've used up half my break going out to get a sambo/salad/smoothie etc. I got to thinking, why doesn't the likes of Spar/Centra etc do a lunchtime delivery service like the takeaways do? Even if the min order was €10 I'd get a few other bits too. I know there's catering companies doing platter deliveries, but for just a small lunch i would definitely use an online delivery site.

Yaay or nay?

Dravokivich

Because the hike to the deli counter is the main source of exercise most of the chicken fillet baggette brigade gets.

Hoop66

So they've to send a guy on a scooter all the way out to you for €10?

Unlikely.

Honey-ec

How would you have paid for it if you'd no cash on you anyway?

Lando Griffin

There used to be Sandwich delivery vans going round to the sites selling breakfast rolls and the like in the good times.
Probably all the rage in Canada now.

anniehoo

Hoop66 wrote: »

So they've to send a guy on a scooter all the way out to you for €10?

Unlikely.

But sure you'd get a chipper/chinese/indian delivered no bother for that. Why not a sambo/salad??

Honey-ec wrote: »

How would you have paid for it if you'd no cash on you anyway?

Online with visa debit. I use Justeat.ie all the time, too feckin handy.

spurious

If they wanted to make serious money at it, they would need a number of target businesses with large numbers of staff buying their stuff, or a large number of businesses situated close to their base.

They would have a lunchtime window of probably two hours at the very most to deliver to all of them (realistically probably a 90 minute window) - that means lots of delivery people with lots of vehicles/bikes all costing money and reducing profit.

Artful_Badger

Subway do lunch time deliveries I think.

biko

Where I used to work the shop next to us took orders from everyone and delivered out to all the offices.
You'd pay on delivery every day though, when they took the order for the next day.
I don't think they made any extra money on it but it was a great service and the sandwiches where nice too.

Tbh, I'd rather not eat in front of the computer though, it's not a nice way to have lunch.

whiskeyman

Lunch is for wimps!

MadsL

Spar/Centra no. They are far too busy with insane markups for that.

There used to be plenty of sandwich delivery places about, but I guess the economy sank many of those. €10 a day vs €2 to bring your own is pretty simple economic.

However in the US a major chain called Jimmy Johns does exactly what you are proposing. Decent sandwiches too.

I've seen vans advertising some kind of work food delivery though I'd say those are bulk orders

Gone Drinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygEUnXohH-c

Nemeses

There is a guy that comes around in a van full of rolls, sandwiches and soups to the industrial estate where I used to work.

Now there is a canteen where I am now.


These people do exist!