Do you have a food delivery app installed on your phone ? If not, read the top 5 reasons to order food online and be assured you would end up installing one.
- Almost all food delivery apps, have a whopping discount ranging from 25 to 33 % discount on the first food order.
- You can be rest assured that you will get the food delivered at a specified time at your doorstep. You don’t need to step out of your house. You can thus plan your lunch or dinner well in advance, save precious time on travel as well as avoid the stress of driving in traffic. The time taken to deliver is clearly mentioned. You can get fast foods within twenty-five minutes of your order. You need to take into account time taken for fresh orders, as well as distance of delivery. A fresh order of customized pizza with distance of 10 Kms may take close to 60 -70 mins.
- You can customize your menu ! Often these customizations would not be available for people who dine in at the restaurant. The customization of the order can be done from within the food delivery app itself. For example you can order a pizza with three layers of cheese, mozzarella, feta, chipotle with choice of crust being thin.
- Based on your preferences, you will get customized discounts from various restaurants. Hence you basically don’t just save money on your first order but on future orders as well.
- You can order food from multiple restaurants from one app. For example you might want a paneer tikka subway sandwich, an extra layer cheese thin crust pizza from dominoes and butter naan with dhal makhani from a local restaurant for your lunch and you can order all this from one app in a matter of minutes.
Apart from the above advantages you get to see rating and reviews of restaurants, most popular food items which helps you make a well informed unbiased decision.
There are two types of food delivery apps, one which are typically food aggregators that gives you the choice of ordering from different restaurants and others which are specific to the brand such as Pizza Hut, Dominos, which allow you to search for the nearest store and order only respective menus. The food delivery apps are typically available in both Google playstore as well as Apple App store.
The size of these apps are typically less than 30 MB, which simply means they don’t take too much of your phone space. These apps vie for attention of consumers, by giving mouth watering offers. They are in process of acquiring more customers to order from the app. You could have the cake and eat it too, by installing several of these apps on your phone. This shouldn’t be a problem as the food delivery apps don’t take much memory space. You could save money by leveraging the discounts offered by different apps, enjoy the convenience of ordering from your phone from different food delivery apps.
The most popular ones are Swiggy, Food Panda, Zomato, Freshmenu, Faasoos.