The best thing you can do for your favorite restaurant during these hard, trying times? Order take-out or delivery! Sure, it’s not quite the same as eating in, we know, but it really will help your favorite restaurant and your favorite staff stay afloat. And if you’re going out to eat at a chain restaurant, perhaps find a local restaurant with similar food and go there instead.
Now, before you vote in the poll, remember we’re asking if you’ve ordered take-out for delivery, not pick-up. We’ll ask that question another time. Right now we want to know if you called in to place the order, or ordered it online, and someone brought it to your door (ah, what a world!).
Had an amazing take-out experience? Had a terrible take-out experience? Tell us about it in the comments. You know we love a good story…
Nothing beats a home cooked meal.
A #1, only way to go.
Well, the Honduran/Mexican restaurant has the best Chile Verde ever. My favorite Mexican food so I’ve eaten it at numerous restaurants over the years. No way I could ever replicate that at home. Hand made tortillas too. Plus like helping local, small businesses.
I voted no, but not lack of desire, just impatience. We’ve been doing takeout once a week to support our local independent restaurants, sometimes i consider delivery but it is always much faster for one of us to dash out and pick it up.
I’m currently holed up in the middle of nowhere at my small farm and no one delivers here…lol
We’ve gone out to local eateries that have been allowed to be open in an effort to support them.
We do too. The best way to support them and we go out 2-3 times a week. We’re in south Texas and small town restaurants love our business
We order take outs often from restaurants for dinner, but we never have them delivered by the restaurant or a third party. We always pick them up ourselves and bring them home, so we control the time they are picked up and we immediately bring them home with no delay. The same if we are camping in the RV. We don’t want to take any chance there will be a delivery delay in the food, which would cause cooled down food and a deterioration of the quality. We like our food quick, fresh and hot.
once a week whether we need it or not!! living in the travel trailer til spring when we travel home and it is just easier if we have been out doing something most of the day to order takeout or delivery and use local restaurants more than the national chain restaurants.
We live in the country so no delivery.
I’m with Marty, we live in rural East Texas. The only prepared food delivery available is pizza; my wife is not a fan of pizza so that happens very rarely, In fact, it’s been over a year since we had pizza delivered.
We also order takeout at least once a week. But we pick it up at the takeout window. When ordering, they tell you when it will be ready.
Another thing, we tip the people at the window, since they do the work. Delivery people get a tip and the people that prepared and packaged the food don’t see it. Not fair to the people doing most of the work.
This also keeps the crazy delivery drivers from speeding while trying to make more deliveries. Just watch them!!!
About every two weeks we randomly pick a local restaurant to help support them.Normally we never eat out.
We’ve ordered a pizza while parked on South Padre island.
I said no. We’ve done pizza but I do not consider that a meal in and of itself. We have done a lot of takeout but go pick it up ourselves. I hate paying delivery fees!
Ditto
This poll may be misleading as to the answers given The large majority said NO. But is it NO because they mostly cook and do not order out in most any situation regardless of the pandemic or is it NO because they are concerned about the pandemic situation. We try to support our local business as much as possible but do not do sit in dinning as much because of the pandemic. Just our 2 cents.
Stay well, Stay safe.
I said no because we don’t want to give the Uber Eats of the world the 30% they charge the restaurants. Seems excessive. We pick up ourselves. Plus we like to check in with the owners to see how they are doing.
I said no because there is no delivery available for where we live.
No, I need to get out. So I order take out about every other week from a different restaurant. It has led me to discover some very good local restaurants.
I’ve called a local restaurant several times this year and ordered food. Then I went there and picked it up myself. When I got there I called and they came out with my food – no-contact delivery. I could have gone in and picked it up, too, but decided not to.
No. We order out and pick up the order. One household member eats at a restaurant occasionally.
we order out once a week but pick it up (need to get out a drive around). Couple of restaurants stopped delivery because the service was so erratic.
No.
Have done takeout but not delivery
We had one delivered but the driver was at the wrong rv. Would have been a cheap meal if I had accepted it but we directed him to the correct rv.
We have done takeout but not delivery. I have had food brought out to my car,does that count? LOL
We don’t use any of the Grub/Deash/Eats apps, because they GOUGE small family run businesses. Seriously, 30% fee for taking an order?? It’s easier to call into the restaurant and let them keep the 5% profit they actually make on entrees. One thing I do love about the pandemic, we’ve been able to order drinks to go (it means we don’t have to keep 12 bottles of mixers in the pantry or RV).
Make sure to order some appetizers and dessert – that’s where the restaurants make some money.
we pick up pizza once a week (but we were doing that before all this started) and have had breakfast and lunch with friends and dinner with just ourselves inside some of the few restaurants defying the guv’s “suggestions” (that’s what they really are) by staying open. not much has changed for us other than going to the movies.
We do take out a couple times a week. But we go pick it up & tip like we are dining in the restaurant. We want to make sure our favorite small town places can survive.
Not a option in our small town
Only have pizza delivered from local restaurant, they use their own employees for delivery, tip them well. Anything else we pickup ourselves. Never have used any of the delivery services.
Order take out for pick up not delivery. The additional cost is 3/4 the cost of the food and gas at $1.93 a gallon an 17.6 mileage per gallon with the truck on a twenty dollar I saved $13 give a few pennies.
We live in a small town – we do takeout. Delivery not much of an option. We’ve been doing it once a week to help our local eateries.
We live in a small rural county that does not offer delivery. If we order take out we have to pick it up.
The only thing we’ve ordered for delivery is pizza. We do curbside or drive-through pick up frequently though.
Disappointed at the results. We support our local restaurants by ordering curb side pickup 3-4 days a week. If not they won’t be in business!!
We live on Long Island, New York and diners are part of the culture. We order from two diners once A week each and eat leftovers the next night, if any. We used to have a night out by going to the local diner 3 minutes away. Now we have dinner delivered to our home. Then there’s the Italian restaurant which is very good. We get that delivered once A week, leftovers are next nights dinner. And we order Boston Market dinner for her and Dominos vegetarian sandwich for me one night. Yeah its an expensive lifestyle, but we can’t dine in and girlfriend is done with cooking. My income will go down 25% when I turn 65 In a couple months so we may back off from ordering somewhat. Maybe do pickup….no tip or delivery fee. Covid is really worse now so I am not eager to go out. 1 year old granddaughter just tested positive for Covid19.
So sorry to hear about your granddaughter, John. OMG! We wish her a speedy and complete recovery. And we wish you and yours as good of a Christmas as possible under the circumstances, and for all of you to have a Happy and Healthy 2021! And thank you for supporting your local restaurants. 🙂 —Diane at RVtravel.com
We live 30 miles from closest restuarant that has delivery service