I came to the US last year for a California trip. In-N-Out burgers' double double has been one of the highlights.<p>We road' tripped it all the way north, south and east. It was quite common to slam on the brakes and hit the exit at the first sight of a In-n-Out.<p>This just brings some great memories back. Well done USA.
Unfortunately there's a reason certain types of foods aren't usually delivered: they're much better fresh. If the delivery isn't extremely fast this isn't going to be very good.<p>That said, I'm definitely going to try this next time I crave I-N-Out.
Pretty cool marketing tool, but probably not all that practical- no guarantee delivery time (at least not on the front page), and hour-old in-n-out burger/fries/shakes pretty much ruin the in-n-out experience.
Or, you can use <a href="http://postmates.com/getitnow" rel="nofollow">http://postmates.com/getitnow</a> for a cheaper delivery, at any time (while In-N-Out is open, of course.)<p>This is a clever marketing wrapper for an inferior service.
There's a company in Brighton (England) called "dinner2go" (<a href="http://dinner2go.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://dinner2go.co.uk</a>) that offer this sort of service (a "food taxi") and it's absolutely fantastic. They've been around for a few years now but they don't seem to have expanded beyond Brighton which would indicate to me that it's not a particularly lucrative business.<p>They charge pretty ridiculous delivery prices, on a $15 meal I pay $15 delivery, and I assume the time that it takes to place the order, collect the order and deliver the order mean they're not making great amounts of money on that $15. They do deliver well though, when my food arrives it's been <15 minutes from McDonalds to me so it's always delicious.<p>Something I've been wondering for a while is why don't places like McDonalds, Burger King and In-N-Out do delivery? The only conclusions I can come to are that either they make money by upselling extras in the restaurant and someone ordering from home exercises greater constraint (eg: just ordering 1 burger and fries) OR that delivery isn't as profitable. Does anyone here have any experience in fast-food and know why?
The modern Kozmo.com -- though with a specialty delivery niche...<p>Will not survive - but, these types of attempts are interesting...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com</a>
This is the first "single use case marketing package" I've seen from Task Rabbit. Would be awesome if they opened an API for others to create a similar site across different verticals.
It's good to be reminded how fortunate I am here in Shenzhen (China). The vast majority of restaurants have a free delivery service and tipping is not expected.
This had to be on the front page today when both of the following were true:
1. I both really wanted an burger and
2. it's a weekend so they're not delivering.<p><i>Perfect</i>
This is similar to another startup called Caviar which is $9.99 for deliveries from some really top notch restaurants in SF. <a href="http://www.trycaviar.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.trycaviar.com</a>
I'm unfortunate enough to live on the East Coast and only get In-N-Out goodness rarely (I've had Shake Shack in NYC <i>way</i> more). I'd love it if they started spreading out this way!
One small improvement they could make is instead of asking me to click the login into taskrabbit on the top right, why not just popup a prompt to signup / login to task rabbit?
Menu Express was doing this in Nashville 15 years ago and they would pick up practically anything you wanted and deliver it to your door. Drivers had CB radios and everything.
This will last about a month, maybe two, before In-N-Out serves them with a cease-and-desist. It's been tried before. There were several startups that did this at Cal in 2003/2004. In-N-Out shut them down as soon as it found out what they were doing.<p>In-N-Out has a very strict policy about remote burgering: if you want burgers at your place, you either go through the drive through yourself or you hire a truck to visit your location.