What Are The Pros and Cons food Caterings?

Question

You know food catering services, like Food Mobile. etc that deliver mcdonalds and Red Lobster and stuff like that?

How was your experiences?

What are the pros and cons?

Answer 1

I don't like those companies. They charge too much and often take longer that I would in my own car to pick them up.  We have a company out here in Arizona called "Delicious Deliveries," and they charged us $10.00 to go pick up food from Olive Garden, and it took an hour to get our order, and the food was warm when we got it.  Not hot, but warm.  We were at work and wanted to try it out.

The only "pro" is that it helped when we were stuck at work and no one could leave and we couldn't get one of our boyfriends to bring us food.  

The con is that it took longer than we thought, our food was warm, not hot, the guy charged us a delivery fee and expected a tip on the credit card slip.  It's really inconsistent.  Domino's Pizza has better service.  

If you're thinking of starting such a business, there is quite a bit of competition.  There are tons of regular restaurants that deliver for free or $2.00 delivery charge.  

I suppose it would be good for people at hotels, but most decent hotels have food or a concierge service that will pick up orders for guests.

I wouldn't refer to them as "catering companies."  They are a delivery service.