Spring Break
Web brings restaurant delivery to fingers
Site lists "traveling" food for college students and vacationers.
Brianna Conway
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: Weekend
Put yourself in this situation: You're in a foreign American city, hungry, and without a car (or maybe just too lazy to throw some pants on and drive to a nearby restaurant). What do you do? Call every restaurant in town to see if they deliver? By the time you track down a phone book, skim through the restaurant guide, narrow it down to a few choices, and call to see if they deliver only to find out that they don't, your stomach will have already eaten itself and moved on to other vital organs.
Wisconsin college students Becky Pauly and Tony Gribben found themselves in a similar situation while vacationing in Minnesota to visit the Mall of America. Wanting to order delivery from their hotel room, but not knowing which restaurants in the area would deliver, they were inspired to create the e-business that is now www.WeDoDelivery.com.
While they found that some websites exist to list delivery services in larger cities, nothing at that point was as comprehensive as WeDoDelivery.com already is, and is still growing to be.
"Our goal was to create a delivery restaurant website that travelers and college students could use, no matter where they were in the country," says the website co-creator Pauly. As Wisconsin residents, Pauly and Gribben began the website in 2007 by listing local Wisconsin cities and slowly expanding outwards to other states and the cities within.
Today, WeDoDelivery.com has 1,469 delivery restaurants listed in 119 cities throughout 43 US states.
"We strive to be the largest restaurant delivery guide on the web and hope that in the future virtually every city will be listed on our website," says Pauly.
With the website still growing, you may not find a particular city you're searching for listed. However, Pauly and Gribben have worked to list the most popular travel destinations and college towns nationwide on their site. Other cities have been listed through a request form that can be found on the website and submitted by users.
Wisconsin college students Becky Pauly and Tony Gribben found themselves in a similar situation while vacationing in Minnesota to visit the Mall of America. Wanting to order delivery from their hotel room, but not knowing which restaurants in the area would deliver, they were inspired to create the e-business that is now www.WeDoDelivery.com.
While they found that some websites exist to list delivery services in larger cities, nothing at that point was as comprehensive as WeDoDelivery.com already is, and is still growing to be.
"Our goal was to create a delivery restaurant website that travelers and college students could use, no matter where they were in the country," says the website co-creator Pauly. As Wisconsin residents, Pauly and Gribben began the website in 2007 by listing local Wisconsin cities and slowly expanding outwards to other states and the cities within.
Today, WeDoDelivery.com has 1,469 delivery restaurants listed in 119 cities throughout 43 US states.
"We strive to be the largest restaurant delivery guide on the web and hope that in the future virtually every city will be listed on our website," says Pauly.
With the website still growing, you may not find a particular city you're searching for listed. However, Pauly and Gribben have worked to list the most popular travel destinations and college towns nationwide on their site. Other cities have been listed through a request form that can be found on the website and submitted by users.
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