Skip the Dishes - Modern Food Delivery in Calgary

Posted by on Thursday, January 12th, 2017 at 4:03pm.

Ordering in food doesn’t have to mean pizza and Chinese Food.  Thanks to technology and a growing appetite for laziness in the kitchen, enjoying the cuisine of your favourite Calgary restaurant and skipping the dishes is easy as installing an app.  The Skip the Dishes app.

Order using your Smartphone or the Skip the Dishes website and find the line up of good restaurants in your area of the city.  Access the restaurant’s menu – you can order from multiple restaurants if you want.   Complete your order and the app connects you immediately with the restaurant.  Gone are the days of standing by the front window or down at the front door of your building watching and waiting for the delivery driver to come with your food.

Skip the Dishes has modernized the whole ordering-in experience giving you, the home diner, more control and assuring a more accurate order.  No searching for pamphlets in your junk drawer or trying to make yourself understood on the phone.

Thanks to GPS and the Skip the Dishes software, you can pay for your food plus tip the food courier online so you don’t need to fumble with a debit machine or find cash at the door.  You can track your food from the time the restaurant accepts the order, to the time they alert a driver.    You can follow your assigned delivery driver as they make their way to the restaurant and follow them along as they drive to your house.  The average delivery time is 45 minutes.

Since launching in 2013, more people have been enjoying their favourite restaurant food in the comfort of their home and enjoying the excellent service provided by this Winnipeg-based company.  And, more restaurants that have never before offered delivery of their food have become part of the program, introducing cuisine to many who may never have thought of darkening the door of that particular restaurant before.

The Skip the Dishes Story

Skip the Dishes is more of an information and technology company that just happens to deliver restaurant food. The founders are brothers Chris, Daniel and Joshua Simair who hail from Prince Albert, SK, Jeff Adamson of Saskatoon and Andrew Chau of Calgary.  In their gigantic 50,000 square foot Winnipeg office with more than 500 employees they manage an ever -expanding network which has branched into the U.S. with 6 cities south of the border offering Skip the Dishes home delivery.

The founders developed proprietary software with sophisticated logistics that enable GPS-enabled drivers to deliver thousands of meals every day.

From a business model point of view, Skip the Dishes charges the same prices you see on the restaurant’s menu and just takes a percentage from the restaurant. Not all restaurants are allowed to access the service.  Only restaurants with high rankings and excellent performance are brought into the Skip the Dishes network. The benefit to your favourite Calgary restaurant is increased business and the opportunity to earn customer loyalty.

Reviews on social media are important to Skip the Dishes and if meals are found to unsatisfactory, Skip the Dishes will make it right.

Customers wanting Skip the Dishes to add their favourite restaurant can email the Winnipeg office and restaurants wanting to join the ranks are encouraged to apply.

Gift cards are available for purchase on the website and will be emailed to the recipient, redeemable on future orders.

Next time you want to order in and everyone feels like something different, check out the Skip the Dishes app and order great Calgary Indian Food, Vietnamese, Greek, BBQ or if you must, pizza.   It’s the modern way to bring dinner to your door in 45 minutes or less.

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