You will have a “menu guide” printed, which is a magazine-like booklet that has menus inside from the participating restaurants. A typical operation will have 6 – 20 different restaurants representing all kind of food.

These menu guides are distributed by various means such as direct mail, hanging them on doorknobs, putting them in hotels and the participating restaurants, and so on. As you get the menu guides distributed, people call and order food. Many people are only familiar with home delivery of pizza, so when they see they can order from dozens of national and local restaurants and have the food delivered quickly, and hot, they will tend to order again and again.

When they call in their order, you or your dispatcher takes down the information and calls the restaurant to order the food. Then a driver is called and told where to pick it up and where to deliver it.

The drivers can be independent contractors – like some of Domino’s Pizza drivers – they supply their own cars and gas. They are not employees and we have a number of alternative contracts you may choose from to use to make sure your drivers are not employees.

No selling is involved. Put out menu guides, and the more you put out, the more orders you get.

When your drivers check back in at the end of the evening, they turn in the money they collected from customers. You will be paying the restaurants for the food from the payments you have already received.

Depending on your interest and area, you might choose to be open for lunch and/or dinner. If only open for dinner then your business is open from say, 5 – 9 PM. You have your daytime hours off!

We will show you how to explain to the restaurateur that they will actually make 2.5 times the profit on food that goes out the back door compared to meals served in their dining room.

It’s a true win/win. The restaurant makes a much better margin on food sold out the back door than on meals served on their premises. You make money on their food consumed in your customers’ homes or offices.

For more information about this download our free food delivery service business plan on how to set up your own restaurant meal delivery service business.