Food delivery is faster and more convenient these days. It is not a new practice, but it seems like several restaurants are already doing a delivery service. They want to provide meals to people who don’t have the time to go to their restaurants. Some people are too busy at home for them to go out, while others want to work while having lunch.

You can call a restaurant to order or use apps. When you decide to order food online or via a phone call, you need to remember these tips.

Be respectful to the delivery guys

When the delivery arrives, you need to be appropriately clothed. No one wants to enter a place to deliver your order while seeing you in your boxers or briefs. Don’t forget to tip them. They went through a lot before reaching your home, especially during the winter when it is cold outside.

Don’t order fried food

You might feel excited about eating fried food while you imagine how crispy and inviting it is. However, you might feel disappointed once the food arrives. Due to the time required for the food to come to your place, it no longer looks exciting. It starts to sag and lose the crispiness.

Avoid noodles too

When you order noodles, they no longer taste great upon arrival. They start to become gluey. If you order noodle soup, but you have no means of reheating it, you won’t appreciate the taste anymore.

Find restaurants close to you

It takes time for restaurants to prepare the dish. It takes even longer for the dish to arrive at your place. Therefore, you need to find a restaurant that is close to you. Once the dishes are ready, it only takes a few more minutes before you can start eating. Unless you are willing to wait, and you are not hungry, you shouldn’t order dishes from a restaurant located far from you.

Don’t rely on ratings alone

It is easy for people to rate the restaurant and click on 1 to 5. However, not everyone has the same standards. Another person’s rating of five might only be your 3. Reading reviews helps, so you can avoid the restaurants where people used negative phrases, like “late delivery” or “soggy noodles”.

Be picky with pizza

Not all pizza restaurants offering great pizzas when you dine there provide the same thing when you ask for delivery. It depends on their packaging as it affects the quality of the pizza. Therefore, you need to find one that has everything that you want in a pizza, whether eaten at the restaurant or home.

There are kosher meals for delivery

If you are Jewish or you are eating kosher meals, you won’t have a hard time finding a kosher restaurant. You don’t even need to force yourself to cook kosher dishes. You can have them delivered directly to your place. There are kosher restaurants in Manhattan that have delivery services worth trying.

With these food delivery tips, you can enjoy sumptuous meals in no time.

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