I am lucky to have a wide variety of delivery options where I live. Every Pizzaria near me also doubles as a full Italian restaurant and Deli and will deliver anything form their menu. The Boston Market and IHOP near me deliver. Countless Chinese places. Several Portuguese BBQ places. And best of all, a full Diner near me also delivers so I can essentially have any food I want brought to me.
Just an odd aside: when we went to China a couple of years ago, in Nanchang, we were told that Pizza Hut and Papa John’s didn’t deliver, but KFC and McDonald’s did.
I suppose they all have different ideas about their market/clientele and the economics of delivering, as well as about the quality of the food if prepared for consumption at some variable time after leaving the kitchen.
Here in the UK, the neighbourhood cheap eats would be Indian or generic Chinese, who would do takeaway and/or deliver- or fish-and-chip shops, which traditionally never did, and still don’t. Turkish kebab shops don’t usually, as far as I know.
Further upmarket, I notice there is a new internet-based general delivery service in London for whatever participating restaurants they’ve got listed - in my area, they’re claiming to offer meals from quite a range of places in different styles, bot just the regular cheapo takeaways.
Here in Finland Turkish kebab places all deliver both kebab and pizza. I’m not sure if any other places deliver in my small-ish town (60k people).
There are two types of services. Take-Out Taxi and similar services have been around for decades. They use their own drivers, so they deliver from basically any place that offers take-out. The downside is that they are slow, and charge outrageous fees.
The newer services, like Seamless or Grub Hub or Eat 24, are basically clearing houses for places that deliver. They list menus and dispatch orders, but the individual restaurants take it from there.
Delivery fees vary, but many charge no fee or a minimal fee. Often they will have unexpected local mom and pop joints, but it can vary from week to week what is available in your area. Since the restaurants themselves are delivering, timeliness varies.
Huh! I just checked out Eat24, Grubhub and Seamless and their websites all show a wide variety of food that could (theoretically) be delivered to my home. I’ll try them out! Just goes to show that if you never ask, you’ll never learn something new!