Pricing varies depending how far the distance. Between $2.99 and $8.99 delivery fee. Charges will be on the website so customers are aware.
Restaurants that have coordinated with Food Precinct will be cheaper.
With a new food delivery service in town, people might not have to leave their couches to get meals from certain local restaurants or fast food chains.
Ty Gray first started Food Precinct in Kokomo and has recently brought the delivery business to Muncie. The company partners with local restaurants and offers delivery of their food to customers' homes.
Currently, only Scotty’s Brewhouse and Bruner’s Family Restaurant have begun deals with Food Precinct. But the business has partnerships with 14 different restaurants in Kokomo including Burger King, Little Caesars and Dog N Suds.
“We check with the restaurant for the best selling items and what goes well with certain products,” he said.
Gray said he keeps track of each restaurant’s prices and sales, which drives his rates.
Delivery prices range from $2.99 to $8.99, depending on the restaurant, according to foodprecinct.com.
Food Precinct also provides a number of services such as in-store promotion, print marketing, graphic design and sales assistance.
“We’re not even categorized as a delivery service,” he said. “We’re a marketing service.”
Most of the company’s marketing is from their Facebook page.
Chris Holmes, a Muncie resident, reached out to Gray to expand on the business. Holmes is the primary delivery driver for the whole Muncie area.
“I fell in love with the idea,” Holmes said. “I felt like if it could be done in Kokomo, I was confident it could be done in Muncie.”
Holmes said he spent time researching the area to prepare for deliveries and restaurants in Muncie.
“I had to look more into it since it was a college town and the demographic was different,” he said.
Holmes is able to deliver to any home, university residence or business. So far, he has not delivered to any campus building.
With merchant services and online ordering, Holmes will put in the order request to the particular restaurant himself and then pick it up.
Gray said this would allow customers who are confined to wheelchairs or are not able to try a new restaurant. Holmes believes this will also help students without a car or single parents who cannot take their children to a restaurant.
“People are forced to use public transportation or rely on someone else,” Holmes said. “We can meet their need, especially in winter months when they don’t want to go outside.”
Gray said when the business started in Kokomo, he got phone calls from intoxicated individuals to deliver food.
“A lot of them will get in their car and just drive and I’m helping keep them off the streets,” he said. “It’s a community thing. Food Precinct is a life hack to utilize to stay safe.”
Food Precinct has been available in Muncie since February and has coordinated 28 deliveries so far.
Gray is hoping to move to Hamilton County, as well as the whole Indianapolis area.
“It’s new and we’re meeting the need here,” he said. “We’re just changing the game.”
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