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I love grubhub.com.

Grub Hub is a website based out of quite a few urban areas now, where you enter your address and it tells you what restaurants deliver to you, including restaurants that offer online ordering through their site. I have not made a telephone order for a delivery meal in literally years because of Grub Hub. Their 404 Missing Page text is awesome:

By finding something that doesn't actually exist you've defied all laws of the universe, bringing about a disaster of epic proportions - day becomes night, up is now down, dogs and cats are living together... it's mass hysteria! We'll send help, but just in case... start working on a zombie survival plan. Immediately. For your safety, we recommend you not leave your home - enter your address above and order a snack while we try and get this all under control.

But they do have a few quirks. Such as the fact that the restaurants themselves enter the titles and descriptions of the food they offer, leading to intriguing typos.

Meta for only $7.50? Such a deal! (Mind you, we peddle it for free around these parts.)

Also, when you order they show you a little comic explaining how it works. I think it's a kind of adorable little comic, but here's my question:

Why is the guy sitting on his couch waiting for his food...naked?

It's not Deep Thoughts, but it's my journal and I'll LOL if I want to. (You would LOL tooooo if it happened to youuuuu...)

Comments

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

I ordered from Grub Hub last week and was wondering the same thing about the fact that grubhub assumes that all of their customers eat naked on their couches. I mean, I don't know about you, but I usually put on pants or some equivalent before opening the door. And sometimes, to save time, I'm already wearing pants before the delivery guy gets to my place. Crazy, I know!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm usually wearing pants, but sometimes I forget a shirt until the buzzer rings, which makes things interesting.

[keeperofqkeys.livejournal.com]

Kind of looks like Jack Harkness....

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL

SURPRISE NAKED JACK!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Why is the guy sitting on his couch waiting for his food...naked?

I have no idea.

There's another advert in that series to announce GrubHub's golive in New York City that has a more plausibly naked person (a sitter in a life-drawing class) asking whether it's possible to get a hot dog with fries delivered.

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

THAT's the one I was thinking of from on the bus!

(this random shout out brought to you via a comment I made on the ditto copy of this post on DW. :)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think you have it the wrong way around: why wouldn't you wait for your food on the couch naked?

(I am joking, of course, but I'm sure the delivery guys come back with Stories.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

All I can think of is that episode of the Wonder Years where it follows the hero all over town delivering Chinese. :D

[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

I did door-to-door newspaper subscription sales in bufu nowhere in college. I had several men answer the door naked. I had to wonder who they were actually *expecting* to be there.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I love Naked Guy. The idea that you can just sit around naked and food COMES TO YOU is kind of the awesome.

I also adore Grub Hub. BTW, see if I Monelli delivers to you - I just discovered them an YUMOLA.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Grub Hub does appear to have a fascination with nakedness.

As for I Monelli....*narrows eyes* I am skeptical (http://media1.px.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/hrrdB8dv6qR-nGG24ouuGg/l). Yumola by Chicago standards, or by normal person standards? :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

No no--the yummy salads and desserts and pastas. :D I've given up on recommending pizza to you, Strange Pizza Person.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Ahh. It's hard to wrap my head around ordering pasta for delivery! Huh.

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

not only is he naked, he is footless, and the moustachiod chef looks like he is throttling the deliver-child in his peddle-car using a maroon scarf. so yeah, there's that.

[allmadhere.livejournal.com]

Curse you for your lack of Canadian cities, grubhub!!

And I totally agree with the above poster: that naked dude is totes Jack Harkness.

[maleficently.livejournal.com]

I wish it covered my city. Sadly, it does not. You'd think, what with a U of C in the city, it would.

[bluebombardier.livejournal.com]

Maybe Naked Guy ordered a Meat Lover's Pizza with extra sausage.

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

HA

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

AKA The Boys Town Special.

[hdluff4eva.livejournal.com]

They don't do my city... Wait... Do they even do anywhere in Canada?

[butterbuns.livejournal.com]

No, but they totally should.

The closest thing I can think of around here is http://www.menuottawa.com . Which is a very small selection.

[hdluff4eva.livejournal.com]

Lame-zors...

*Sigh* I'll just use the phone then. Dang...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

GrubHub has way, way, WAY more restaurants than Foodler (at least in terms of who delivers to me). Foodler lists 40 restaurants that deliver to me. GrubHub lists 211.

And yes, GrubHub has all 40 that Foodler lists.

[luxanebulis.livejournal.com]

I use campusfood.com, and if you leave a decent tip online, the food comes faster!

[dimloep-suum.livejournal.com]

Aaaaand yet another service that only exists in Real U.S. Cities. :/

[rdprice29.livejournal.com]

At least the chef is dressed. o_O

And lol at the Naked Jack Harkness comment. And I agree, Naked Jack Harkness is never a surprise. ;D

[purplevks.livejournal.com]

He is naked because the order included the delivery man's attention for a few hours and he wants to save time :D

*chuckle*

[eskanto]

good one!

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Well... that's one way to enjoy your meal? XD

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Personally, when I'm eating hot pizza, I like my junk to be protected from potential stray cheese...

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

...okay, trying to clear mental image out of my head now. O.O

puppiespuppiespuppiespuppiespuppies...

[bobthemole.livejournal.com]

Austinites don't have GrubHub, but we have Longhorn Delivery (http://www.longhorndelivery.com/), which will deliver cold medicine and condoms if asked.

[vivichick.livejournal.com]

I'd rather have THIS in my city.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Thanks to the UK version of this, I've now discovered that round here they'll even deliver cigarettes. I mean, after alcohol it was a logical next step. But it still made me cry inside.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

A PERFECT COMBINATION. :D

[slice254.livejournal.com]

I've been known to order and wait for food naked...but I usually at least put on a robe or a nightgown before it comes.

If I didn't, the poor delivery guys would never come back.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

It depends on the delivery guy.

I know a man who would come back for -any- unclad female.

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

LOL

I opened the door to delivery guys quite a few times in bathrobe or coat, because I wasn't decent... but completely naked? Not that I can remember.

[lots42.livejournal.com]

What does Grub Hub do if the food place literally down the road refuses to acknowledge you (me) exists?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Actually we had this issue -- a burger joint a few blocks away wouldn't deliver to R's place. Ordering via grubhub, you've already placed your order and paid by the time they get the information, so they have to either deliver to you or go through a very tedious refund process. Also you can leave reviews for them saying stuff like "refused to deliver to me" and report them to grubhub.

[i-phianassa.livejournal.com]

Oh! I totally needed a link like that the other day. Thank you! *goes to bookmark*

[firynze.livejournal.com]

I really wish we had Grub Hub around here. I hate making telephone orders. Domino's little pizza-stalker thing is my saviour.

...and I feel sorry for the little delivery dude, if he has to deliver to little naked dude all the time.

[myklavelle.livejournal.com]

Haven't you hear? It's the only way to enjoy delcious meta!

[debitha.livejournal.com]

Delicious Meta (http://www.delicious.com/search?p=meta&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0&atags=meta&rtags=&context=all||)

It's possible I need more coffee.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It took me a second to catch on and then I DIED LAUGHING.

[debitha.livejournal.com]

The little dude doesn't have to go out to acquire food, so can indulge in pantslessness to his heart's content. Obviously. I mean, don't you?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I actually kind of prefer some form of pants, even when I'm home alone, though I admit shirts are optional at Casa de Sam.

It's a tarp!

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I think it's all just a trap to lure the delivery-child into the house.

Re: It's a tarp!

[(Anonymous)]

"Hey, I bought an extra meal, would you like to join me?"
Ike Broflowsky's voice: "I pooped my pants! I don't like medicine."