Up until 2 and a half years ago, I lived in a condo I owned on West Flamingo about 3 miles from the strip. Due to the proximity of the strip and china town, they were always a ton of choices for 24 hour food.
I live now in Summerlin, about 17 -20 miles away from the strip, but I am literally 1/4 mile from US95 which is a direct route (merging on to I-15) to get to the strip.
Living out here is awesome. All families, very low crime, noise etc except restaurants all close at 9pm during the week and 10 at the latest on the weekend. Furthermore, my choices for delivery are limited to fail pizza chains and one or 2 bad Chinese restaurants.
They had this service here for years called foodrunner that would deliver a wide range in Vegas but the closed early, had a limited selection of restaurants and charged a pretty high price for delivery, service charges etc.
Today I've been relaxing all day at home getting ready for the circus tomorrow and felt like some Cuban food. Black beans and rice, Cuban sandwhich etc. Only problem is that there is only one Cuban restaurant in Vegas. It's located in a shady part of the strip (next to the little white chapel), has awful parking, is like 30 minutes away at least and I just didn't feel like driving.
So for the hell of it I google the restaurants name with "delivery" in the title. A business comes up names "postmates" which is in just about every major city in the U.S. but only started delivering here early this year.
I download the app (can't apparently order on a pc) and find the restaurant, place my order, register my account etc.
I see at checkout that it's $17 to deliver to my house. I find a coupon online for first time users for $15 off. I also find a coupon that states it will always work and is $10 off. I place the order. Enter my cc (you cant use cash) and immediately a live gps map appears showing the various drivers all over Vegas. After about 3 minutes of scanning the city live (as I am watching) it finds a driver. His profile (with his picture), name and phone number appear on my phone. He texts me within 2 minutes stating he is going to pick up my food now.
Still waiting for him as I type this but I thought this was pretty cool, especially if you can get the delivery fee in the under $10 range everytime.
Browsing the site I saw that they have drivers working 24/7 and will bring you other services besides food. You want some new sneakers and don't feel like leaving? Need a new cell charger? Smokes and beer? Literally anything legal. They will price it, you pre-pay and they will bring it to you.
For shits and giggles I tried to order a mac book pro. It gave me a similar price to what best buy would sell it for, added on tax, and a $20 fee and said once I confirmed my order (they store your cc info on the app), the mac book would be at my house within 90 minutes.
Maybe this is a moonlanding but I've never heard of this.
Oh and I literally can track him in real time to see how close my food is to being delivered. He is on Summerlin Parkway as we speak about 3 miles away.
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Originally Posted by DaGreek23
