Scoot Food has brought a healthy dose of innovation and much-needed competition to Chapel Hill food delivery market.
What’s more, the company has combined business savvy with social awareness by donating 50 percent of its profits to a charity chosen by customers every few months.
Though it’s only open until 9 p.m., Scoot Food boasts a highly competitive delivery price of $2.99 per restaurant in each order, giving it quite an edge on its main competitor, Tarheel Take-Out.
Tarheel Take-Out, which is open until 9:30 p.m. on weeknights and 10 p.m. on weekend, charges an exorbitant delivery fee of $4.99 for every order, plus an additional $2.25 per restaurant in each order.
But since it has more or less held a monopoly on food delivery until now, there has been little incentive for Tarheel Take-Out to make its prices more reasonable. Hopefully, Scoot Food will help change that.
Not only is Scoot Food a more economical choice than its competitors, it’s also more sustainable; employees use motor scooters instead of cars to deliver the food.
Since Scoot Food has ambitious plans for expanding the restaurants for whom it delivers, it’s possible that its delivery times will increase in coming weeks. But given the innovative premise of the entire venture, it seems unlikely Scoot Food will fail to adjust.
This is a business students should support and feel good about supporting. It offers cheaper delivery, a more environmentally friendly model and has a philanthropic bent to boot.
