NYC restaurant owners are going above and beyond in food delivery.
Places that do not traditionally offer delivery services are stretching their ways to get to their loyal fans.
Spot Dessert Bar, an Asian-fusion cafe with an affluent collection of sweet treats.
With 2 locations in Flushing and East Village, Spot mainly focuses on the in-store dining experience as most of its desserts need to be consumed once they are made fresh in the kitchen.
Delivery has not been on Spot’s radar until the COVID-19 pandemic hit NYC. Spot began to sell pastries and pints of ice cream that are more easily accessible via delivery and it expanded its delivery zone by offering once a week door to door delivery to Staten Island and New Jersey, where the general delivery apps will not be able to reach.
Supermoon Bakehouse, a boutique bakery located in Lower East Side.
The bakery announced a Weekend Care Pack delivery service on April 7th, 3 weeks after it temporarily closed its door from the public on March 16th. The $45 package includes assorted baked goods from Supermoon, such as its signature croissants as well as household staples like a sourdough loaf, which is not something that was on the menu before but specifically created to meet the needs of people in quarantine. This weekend only delivery pack was sold out multiple times since it was first introduced.
Mister Paradise, an upscale bar in East Village.
This bar came out with the brilliant idea of cocktail delivery. Every week the bar curated a special liquor delivery menu to serve those who crave for some booze in quarantine. The delivery packet comes with handcrafted party-size cocktails, which serves up to 6 people, and snacks.
3Times, a small Chinese restaurant near Union Square.
The Chinese restaurants suffered even more in this coronavirus pandemic because of xenophobia and the spread of groundless rumors. Grubstreet reports the sales at Chinese restaurants in NYC began to plummet in February, well before the large-scale started. This presents more difficulty to owners of Chinese restaurants and some started to explore unconventional ways of operation. Owner of 3Times came up with a great delivery option: the made-to-order, frozen dim sum delivery. With this option, customers can order a larger batch of dim sum and store them in the freezer without being worried about the food getting spoiled. The restaurant can also maximize efficiency and minimize waste by offering frozen food delivery.
COVID-19 definitely challenged restaurant owners to be creative in their ways of doing business. The above examples have proven that NYC restaurants are reinventing food deliveries to stay strong while normal operations have become out of reach.
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