Don’t want to cook tonight? I hear you.
As someone who runs a food blog, I generally cook more often than we ever order takeout. But sometimes, ordering takeout is the best thing in the world. It can make a horrible day into a beautiful one. It can be the relief I am desperately needing.
Sometimes, it’s because we’re having a movie night. Or because we’ve decided to catch up on every episode of The Strain that we’ve DVR’d. Other times it’s an intense game and pausing is NOT an option.
Sometimes it’s just because I DON’T WANT TO COOK. That’s reason enough.
Just before we headed to San Diego Comic-Con this year, the tasty folks at GrubHub wrote us and fixed us up with some cool swag and some free grub. Oh, and I DIDN’T KNOW WHO THEY WERE. I guess I was the only one in my house who was clueless because the rest of the clan had heard of GrubHub, but they had never ordered through them. But with our free grub codes, we were able to experience the wonders of GrubHub — a website and a app (for Android and iPhone) that allows you to easily order food and have it delivered.
Our first time of using GrubHub was on a movie night — and there was no way I was cooking. We ordered Chinese and the whole process was simple, efficient…and delicious. Since that night? We’ve used GrubHub two more times. Yeah, we’re hooked on it and that’s why I’m happy to share it as one of our favorites.
Now, a friend of mine said, what’s the big deal with this GrubHub site? And before using GrubHub, I might have asked that too. But now that I have used them….I can explain:
1. Finding restaurants is simple: Enter your zip code and wham…bam…restaurants to pick from! You can sort by the type of food you want, such as Chinese, Thai, Sushi, Pizza, Italian, Burgers, and more. You can choose if you want the best, the cheapest, or the closest. You can choose ones that offer coupons. There’s lots of different filters to narrow down your listing to the perfect ones for you.
2. Menus are posted on GrubHub: I absolutely love that I can see an entire menu for the restaurant on GrubHub…and that it’s accurate. Some of the restaurants in Las Vegas (like many other areas, I’m sure) are small business owners without big, fancy websites. And, if they do, sometimes they get outdated when the menu is changed or prices increase. I also really like the “Popular Items” and “Trending Items” feature because I tend to be a bit indecisive.
3. Reviews and ratings are right there: You only live once so it’s good to take chances, but if a restaurant has bad reviews, I’d rather skip it. On GrubHub, there is GrubHub ratings and reviews by other GrubHub users, but they also share ratings from Yelp. You can even click to read the Yelp reviews. With all this said, reviews can sometimes leave me even more unsure than when I started, so this is when flipping a coin comes in handy.
4. Ordering food is crazy easy: The design of the site makes it very fast and user-friendly. As you are browsing the menu, you just click to pick what you want. If you change your mind, deleting choices is easy too. Most of the restaurants they listed in my area don’t even have online ordering, which requires you to call the restaurant. I find it’s so much easier to make my choices on the GrubHub site (and our orders have always been delivered 100% correct).
5. Everything in one place: If you order take-out from 5 difference restaurants, you’ve now given your credit card info (if that’s how you paid), to 5 different restaurants. With GrubHub, you’ve only given your information to 1 business…GrubHub. Plus, they save your order details (so you can reorder easily), they keep a record of all of your receipts (how much does your friend owe you??), and they even save multiple address (work, home, friends house, etc).
Now, how about you? Want to try out GrubHub?
Well, you’re in luck — the folks at GrubHub have given us some free grub to give away to Comic Con Family readers! We’re giving away $20 free grub from GrubHub to 5 winners. Hopefully you have GrubHub restaurants in your area, but even if you don’t, GrubHub is great to use when you are on vacation or at a comic book convention, like Comic-Con. I love eating out in restaurants, but sometimes you are so tired at the end of your day that clicking your mouse on the GrubHub website is about all the energy you have!
For your chance to win one of the GrubHub $20 gree grub codes, enter on the Rafflecopter below — the only required entry to leave a comment (the first option on the Rafflecopter), but we’ve given you other ways to get an extra entries too! Good luck!!
Hungry? Order grub at GrubHub! They are pretty fun to follow on Twitter and Facebook too.
Disclosure: As mentioned above in this post, we were provided with free GrubHub swag and promo codes from GrubHub. We were not required to write about GrubHub, or to host a giveaway. All opinions are 100% my own.
Chicken fingers! My kids love em!
I would go for Chinese for me and hubby
Mexican food.
Pizza-yum!
We would definitely order chinese food.
Italian food!
My family and I love Chinese food, so that is what we’d most likely get!
I’m sure my husband would want to order Chinese food. He loves it!
Sandwiches from Five Guys!
I would get indian, I love indian food
thai food
some kind of asian cuisine for me! thanks so much for the chances to win!
Pizza or Chinese food!
I would use it to order Thai food!
My hubby loves pizza, but I’d probably vote for Thai.
Italian food!
My husband and I would most likely order either American, Chinese or French food.
But if I am lucky enough to win this, as much as I’d LOVE to enjoy it for ourselves, it would mean more to me to gift it to one of our young adult kids because they need it even more so and it would make me happy to be able to help one of them out with a great meal and special treat for them.
Thank you to you and sponsor for this giveaway opportunity. I REALLY appreciate even having a chance.
Chinese food!
I would order Mexican food or Italian food.
I would order Chinese food
We would get chinese food .
Looks like pizza is my only option. Fine by me…
Thanks for the contest.
I would get some Thai food! I love pad thai. 🙂
We love Italian.
We would most likely order Italian. I love comfort food!
As of right this moment, I’d go for Indian food. It might be a tie with Thai, though 🙂
Pun not intended, I swear! 😀
I would order Italian!
I would probably order cheesesteaks and onions from my favorite shop.
we would order Chinese
Some good texmex
Chinese for sure!
Italian! That is the only one close to us! It’s a restaurant we’ve never tried before so it would e fun to try it!
Mexican is my fave
My family would be thrilled…we would order Chinese or Thai food for movie night!
Chinese – we love chinese!
Thats easy! Asian! I need some pho
Thats easy! Asian!
We are huge Italian food eaters here 🙂
Chinese is our favorite.
Oh man, any kind of take-out would be a huge treat for us!
I think I would order Italian – probably lasagna!
Sure hope I win. Be awesome to have some good chinesse food for dinner 🙂
Italian
Mexican for sure
Italian!