Takeaway Junk Mail

It’s got so easy to order takeaway food online with companies like ‘JUST EATS’ or simply just pick up your phone yourself and order ending days of having to go out into a cold winters night standing in a que looking at a menu on the wall, home delivery is the way forward. So why full my letterbox with menus? How long before takeaway owners feel no need for a shop on the high street, just a kitchen in a factory unit because, most people are online ordering or using a phone app.

Do you need the physicality of the shop to make an order? We use ‘Love Curry’ our must go to for an Indian takeaway but I have never been in their shop. I know where it is and past it but never darkened their door and wouldn’t care if they shut the shop and moved to a factory unit – Not as long as the quality stayed the same.

With the likes of ‘JUST EATS’ you are supplied with an up-to-date menu and you don’t search around the house looking for an outdated menu. My Dad doesn’t understand the takeaway generation because he comes from the era of the Fish and Chip shops and pie shops. Back then, it was pie and chips, fish and chips etc. but saw the changes early on living in the docks area due to the multicultural make-up of the area with cafes from around the world.

Now it’s everything from the traditional to burgers, kababs, pizza, and fried chicken I always wonder how fresh all this food could be. Not forgetting Chinese, Indian and the myriad of other food outlets we are spoiled for choice today. When I was a kid, Indian restaurants were just developing, and if you wanted a takeaway, you would have to take your own saucepans! Today it’s much easier.

Although as much as I like to read a nice takeaway menu the amount that flood threw my letterbox really, pushing all the wrong buttons with me. What about the trees those poor trees. What a waste of paper. Reckon I have pushed through my letterbox 6 to 8 menus mostly unwanted but for the odd few one outlet post through my letterbox twice or three times a week. Do they pay the guy or is he working for a meal but I wish he would move on from my letterbox and find some new territory.