
Vivian Yee’s article “In Age of Anywhere Delivery, the Food Meets You for Lunch” published in The New York Times on October 5th, 2013 discusses how easy it has become for New Yorkers to order food anytime, anywhere. Throughout the past few years, technology has made it simple to do things using only your fingertips. People can make appointments, order clothes, and check their Facebook statuses “in the flicker of a smartphone screen.” Now life has gotten even easier for New Yorkers by having food-delivery apps “to order anything their stomachs desire to the very spot where they stand.” Yee mentions how these days, food deliveries are not limited only to houses and offices “or even, for that matter, to a place with an address.” One can have their breakfast, lunch, dinner, or anything in-between delivered wherever they desire, ranging from parks and beaches all the way to piers. Yee also shows how great the service of the deliveries are compared to other states by including a fragment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s interview in which Sotomayor mentions how quickly food is delivered unlike Washington D.C. New Yorkers have taken advantage of this luxury. According to the interviews conducted for this article, people order for their food to be delivered to save the time and trouble. Food is delivered to police officers while they are patrolling, businessmen sitting in their cars, picnickers in parks and beaches, gyms where people are working out, and even workers working in a manhole! Restaurant owners don’t mind all these requests for deliveries because their sales increase and they get business. According to Robert Asmail, the manager of Due Fratelli Pizza in Park Slope, Brooklyn “…we go anyplace! It doesn’t matter! …I don’t care….They buy, we send it out.” So do you plan on being like all those New Yorkers and have your food delivered?