Takeout and Delivery for the Discerning Foodie
The landscape for food delivery has changed. Here’s how Airmart makes it better.
We experience our food differently these days. While out, each bite we take may be interrupted by the need to replace our masks while a server refills our water glass. At home on our kitchen tables, we navigate eating dishes we only ever used to eat in restaurants, leaving behind a flurry of plastic bags and boxes, napkins, utensils, and way too many condiment packets.
Speed is the name of the game when it comes to getting takeout, and we opt for whatever involves as little human interaction as possible. The contact-less dining experience has kept us safe from COVID-19, but it has also caused us to lose touch with the people involved with our food, in every sense of the phrase.
More Than Fast Food
For those of us who aren’t in a hurry, on-demand delivery is less of a necessity. The more discerning foodies among us want the restaurant dining experience without the risk. They’re craving the culinary adventures they’ve missed while restricting their travel over the last two years. They want their food to come with a story and an element of novelty. But can the slow food movement still thrive when everything is designed for mass production and speed?
Picking up takeout is a little more personal, but the restaurant experience is still absent.
Customer service doesn’t exist in these new ways of dining, nor does the aspect of food presentation. Sometimes, the food we order doesn’t even come from real restaurants. Instead of full-fledged dining establishments, our takeout food may come from shared ghost kitchens, the same menu items branded under different names. On an app, we might not even realize we’re ordering from a ghost kitchen. It’s just another option when we want food within the hour.
But when our appetites are ruled by wanderlust, where can we go to satisfy those cravings?
How can we explore the hidden gems of our cities without having to navigate parking woes and COVID-19 health concerns?
Culinary Adventures Await — Just Place Your Order with Airmart
Expanding your palate through takeout is possible if you look beyond traditional ways of ordering food online.
Apps like UberEats, Grubhub, and DoorDash aren’t equipped to serve this segment of foodies who want more from their dining. Talented, independent chefs don’t necessarily churn out the same items over and over again with the same speed, so cookie-cutter fast food delivery apps don’t work for them. And anyone can easily sign up to do deliveries for these companies, which means careful food handling practices for delicate and/or temperature-sensitive items might fall by the wayside.
The community-based e-commerce platform Airmart can connect foodies to novelty desserts, Instagram-worthy eats, and gourmet, restaurant-fresh entrees from artisanal chefs with pick-up and delivery options.
Airmart’s fleet of delivery drivers is equipped to handle fresh pastries, sushi, and produce with care, maintaining the beautiful plating presentation and quality. The Airmart team works directly with each vendor, building strong relationships and helping them better connect with customers.
Ordering food off of platforms like Airmart that are tailored to farm-to-table style businesses can help us bridge the disconnect the pandemic has created between us and our local restaurants.
COVID-19 may have canceled your global food tour plans, but you can bring a sense of adventure back to everyday eating — you just have to know where to search.
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