It was inevitable that sometime it had to happen, this past saturday was the 1st time that large parts of the UK received a significant dumping of snow. Now the definition of significant dumping of snow in the UK appears to be about 1/2 an inch, but this light dusting, which would have been brushed aside by many of our European neighbours, seems to be able to bring Great Britain’s town centres to gridlock and panic anyone who is already at home from venturing outside.
Yes at about 4pm on saturday the 1st few flakes fell, and kept falling, so by an hour later we knew that we were going to be in for one hell of a night in takeaway land! You see the thing about snow is that it brings together the perfect storm of conditions to make takeaway ordering & delivery very difficult.
The obvious problems are caused from the aforementioned gridlock which prevents the delivery drivers from getting your deliveries of hot food from the kitchen to your door in the same timely manor that you would expect. With the traffic, the extra need to take care and the pressure to get your pizza delivered before it’s stone cold the drivers have to pull off nothing short of a miracle to get your takeaway delivered as you would expect.
The second issue that the restaurants face with a night of snow is that everyone who wasn’t planning on ordering a takeaway that night has looked out of the window, decided that the walk to Tescos is out of the question, so why not order in & get some delicious food delivered for us. What could be a better night to do this?
Trust me, everyone thinks exactly the same thing, so you along with several thousand other folk around the country all head in your droves to order your takeaways online. You can see now how this perfect storm combines to produce extremely high demand for takeaway food, huge problems for the drivers getting through the blizzard conditions and this sometimes leads to the inevitable extended wait times for food.
I have to say that the local takeaway restaurants and their drivers managed to cope like absolute heros on Saturday night, yes delivery times were extended slightly but nearly every order was delivered – the food maybe needed 30 seconds in the microwave, but still tasted just as good. Surprisingly the number of restaurants who stopped delivering completely for the evening was very low when looking at our figures so it was a great result all round.
On behalf of you the customer we would like to thank all of our local takeaway heros – the drivers who risked life & limb to get your takeaway to your door – and also if you ordered on Saturday, thank you to you for being understanding and appreciating all the efforts that went into getting your food to you. We can tell from the many customer reviews that we’ve had that many of you were very thankful for the efforts that the restaurants went to so it feels appropriate to thank them publicly.
So until our next dumping of snow we can all relax 
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