Delivery Service

Food delivery services are becoming popular options as people try to stay home.

Intro centered food delivery services are becoming popular options as people try to stay home.

And drivers drivers are taking extra precautionary measures when dropping of the goods.

Our quentin smith talks to the owner of lazy guys, a local food delivery service.

He joins us live with more on their new safety measures for delivery drivers.

Aundrea, drivers now have the option to wear personal protective equipment as they make their deliveries.

And that's not it... customers also have the option of requesting the driver place their order outside their front door...preventing them from coming in contact with one another.... it's the start of another busy work week at lazy guys as the orders continue to flood their inbox... "we've had a huge influx of new customers."

John bass is the ceo and founder of lazy guys..

They make food and personal deliveries all throughout columbus and starkville.... in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak..

He's seeing an increased need in their service... on average.... they're making roughly 100 deliveries a day..

"i think people just aren't comfortable getting out right now, and delivery is one of the safest options."

Nat as drivers begin their routes some of the ways they're making deliveries safer is by wearing face masks... gloves.... and carrying hand sanitizer.... "most of our drivers are very cognoscente and understand that we need to do everything we can to make customers feel comfortable with using this service."

Another safety service being offered is the no contact deliveries.

What this means is..

The driver will leave the delivery on the front steps.....knock at the door to alert customers the goods are being dropped off, then they leave.

Avoiding any potential contact..

"they can just say i want "no contact delivery," or as soon as our driver gets started on the order, they'll generally reach out to the customer and let them know, hey, this is so and so, i'll be taking care of you.

The customer can let them know then, hey i prefer no contact delivery.

Then they can either pay over the phone with the card, they can leave cash out, or we can take electronic payment."

During these uncertain times... bass says he knew they had to quickly implement these new measures to keep everyone safe while still providing quality services... "we saw that there was going to be a need for our service with restaurants having to go to take out only, and we knew that we were going to have to make adjustments to keep customers feeling comfortable.

Nothing is easy right now, but it was kind of a no brainer what we needed to do."

Although delivery options are convenient for most, bass says this option is not being provided voluntarily... which is why customers should not be surprised to see a delivery fee... reporting live in columbus, quentin smith... wcbi news.... wcbi stinger centered