Seattle breakfast delivery anyone, anyone?
In a city associated with Crocks and Utilikilts, where downtown is turning into a “war zone”, reliable grub joints are folding while cupcakes houses are springing up everywhere, and little naked baby pygmy hippos are showing up around town, can’t one thing make sense?!? Can’t I get my G.D. breakfast delivered to my door?
You can get a number of things delivered to you throughout the city…Thai and Chinese food, pizza, Italian, burritos, sandwiches, etc. But, I’ve yet to discover anywhere that will deliver my breakfast.
I stumbled across this conundrum one particular hung-over morning this July when I was left starving, sans any good greasy satisfying food in the house (carbs, carbs, grease and carbs!), and no one to accompany me to a mid-morning eggs and bacon feast. So, I searched the Internet. I wanted Eggs Benedict BAD. But, I couldn’t find one place that would deliver breakfast. I came across a few places that would cater breakfast for offices, but those services were only offered Monday through Friday and usually had a minimum order of around $100. I did find two places that brought breakfast to lazy Saturday folks like me… but one was located in Chicago and the other in San Francisco.
Tell me, why is impossible to get breakfast to-go in Seattle? Doesn’t it make more sense to wake-up, not want to get dressed, and have your food delivered in the morning, rather than at night when chances are you’ve probably already been dressed for the day and running out for dinner isn’t that big of a deal?
Can someone solve or explain this predicament for me?
I am a huge fan of delivered food, and also of big hangover breakfast (I mean, I work for a group of restaurants that specialize in such things!), but I’m not sure I understand the delivery of the breakfast.
I love the feeling of walking in to the restaurant and getting to put my head on the table while my waiter serves me…Or if I’m staying home, I want to fill my house with the aromas of delicious eggs and BACON.
That said, I have no idea where would deliver. Maybe I should suggest it to my boss!
looks like these folks: http://restaurantstogo.dtsc.net/ do breakfast delivery, but according to their faq, “Breakfast orders require day before notice for deliveries required prior to 9am and should be placed by phone”
they specialize in catering/corporate but will do residential as well.
(no endorsement here, just found them online)
Is “Crock’s” some kind of pun about the horrendous nature of those shoes?
Delivered food to your door is so “Lazy New Yorker”. It’s not really a Seattle thing. Now Kozmo.com on the other hand was awesome.
Naomi: I love going out to breakfast AND cooking it. There’s just that occasional lazy day where it’s not an option cause a) I don’t have groceries or b) I can’t find a breakfast partner.
–Crocks fixed thanks Lloyd. Missed that one.
Lyra: Great tip! I’ll check it out. Although, having to guess my lazy breakfast day seems to defeat the purpose.
Jake: I had never heard of Kozmo.com before now. What a shame it’s not around anymore! Seems like a genius idea.
well, being lazy means you can stay in bed past 9am and *then* order breakfast!
(I miss kozmo.com, too)
I work for the very company that allied with kozmo.com before it’s demise. Selfishly, I’m not bitter that it burned up 60 million dollars of Amazon’s venture capital, but rather that I too can no longer have Eggo waffles, otter pops, Gatorade and cheesy DVDs delivered to my door at 11:30 AM on Sunday.
Side note: I thought I was the only one that hates Crocs. Remember people, comfort counts, but it’s not all that matters. Have some self-respect and ditch your trendy, Wallingford-esque*, crayon-colored wiffle shoes.
* Much respect for Wallingford, but we all know how those old pseudo-hippies dress. ;)
OTTER POPS!
“pseudo hippies”!!
;) luv ya.
For those of you that don’t remember Kozmo.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com
Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-driven online company that promised free one-hour delivery of anything from DVD rentals to Starbucks coffee in the United States. It was founded by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in March 1998 in New York City. The company is often referred to as an example of the dot-com excess.[1]
Kozmo had a business model that promised to deliver small goods free of charge, typically by using bicycle messengers. The model was criticized by some business analysts, who pointed out that one-hour point-to-point delivery of small objects is extremely expensive and were skeptical that Kozmo could make a profit as long as it refused to charge delivery fees. The company countered in part that, in their target markets, savings due to not needing to rent space for retail stores would exceed the costs of delivery.
I used to have a deal with the folks I would go out drinking with. You buy me drinks, I’ll wake my ass up in the morning, come over and cook you breakfast. Worked out pretty well until I moved to the Eastside and the longer drive was no longer worth it.
Tony B., why can’t I have friends like you?
y’know… if I was hungover, I’d think a burrito was the perfect breakfast….
Just thinkin’….
I haven’t been “doing” breakfast lately. Maybe I should start again?