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Local Food Delivery: Dine-in Delivery

By on February 25, 2010 in Biz Ops / Featured

Dine-in Delivery is a meal delivery service business opportunity. They deliver food from restaurants that don’t have their own delivery service.

The delivery business is a big business. Dominos, who only delivers pizza did $5.1 billion in 2007. Dine-in Delivery can deliver food from from every imaginable type of restaurant.

Local Dine-in Delivery operations sign agreements with local restaurants and then print and distribute menu guides in the area. Each guide is nothing more than a recreation of the participating restaurants’ menus. The guides are then mailed to every residence and business in the service area. Immediately after mailing out the menus, the phones will ring.

When someone calls to place an order, the order is conveyed to the restaurant and then to an independent contractor driver who picks up the order from the restaurant and delivers it to the customer.

How Do The Local Operations Make Money?

The drivers get the delivery charge and their tips. Because the average order is a lot larger than pizza. If a driver delivered 3 orders in an hour, with a $5 delivery charge he makes $15. Tips could also easily be another $10. Drivers will be very happy with $25/hour – just ask a pizza delivery driver!

The local operation makes money on the discount the restaurant gives you on the food, not from delivery charges. A restaurant can give you a large discount on the food and since the order is not served in the restaurant, they don’t need to count that part of their overhead.

If you’re thinking about starting a local delivery business, I’d talk to Dine-in Delivery first. Tell them that Dane sent you.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    Yeah but that is $25 per hour before they take out for gas and any wear-and-tear on the vehicle. It also depends on where they’re delivering. The approximate $25 per hour goes a lot farther if you’re delivering in town than it would if they were delivering out into the country, like where I live. But that still isn’t too bad I guess. I think it is a neat idea. Delivery for those that won’t deliver. I wonder what took someone so long to come up with the idea!

  • Jeffrey Correa

    So am in the begging stages of opening my own food delivery company. Just like the one explanied at the begging of this blogg. I actually some research with Dine-In. They seem to have all the ingredients for success in this field; However I do NOT want to buy a franchise. I want to open my own company. I wish there was a way to figure out what kind of discount they get from restaurants! lol Anyways if anyone has any tips or info PLEASE post or better yet e-mail me! Jeff Correa
    jeff_correa@hotmail.com

  • Jeffrey Correa

    So am in the begging stages of opening my own food delivery company. Just like the one explanied at the begging of this blogg. I actually some research with Dine-In. They seem to have all the ingredients for success in this field; However I do NOT want to buy a franchise. I want to open my own company. I wish there was a way to figure out what kind of discount they get from restaurants! lol Anyways if anyone has any tips or info PLEASE post or better yet e-mail me! Jeff Correa

  • http://dine-in-delivery.com Joe McVoy

    Hi Jeff,

    Dine-In Delivery is not a franchise. You are free to open under your own name with our help with no restrictions from us. We provide the info you need to make money in this business and send an experienced rep who has made hundreds of restaurant presentations out to train you. The discount rate is confidential, but even knowing it won’t help you unless you know how to explain to a restaurant why they should give it to you. That’s what we do and it is the part of the business that is most critical and needs the most training to do it right. Joe

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