Texas Tech Students Brandon Wasson, 20, and Austin Turner, 22, built and launched Caddy Delivery. They’re calling it Lubbock’s first food delivery service app.
“If you want Las Brisas steak or Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos or Orlando’s spaghetti,” Wasson said. “Anything you want we’ll go get.”
Wasson came up with the idea while he was in high school and approached a tech company to help him build it, but the tech company said it would cost $80,000.
Wasson shelved his idea for a few years until he found Turner in a Texas Tech Facebook group.
Turner is self-taught in writing code and can build apps from scratch.
After 10-months of working together on the app, they launched on February 3.
Wasson and Turner said it’s easy to use, first you have to download the free app from the Apple store and create an account.
“From there they are able to browse through various menus of different restaurants that we know are popular in Lubbock and grocery stores as well and we also offer the option of you just tell us where you want us to go,” Wasson said.
A driver then receives the request, and using a pre-loaded company debit card, they order, buy and deliver the food within 40-minutes.
For safety, a third-party company handles the transactions so drivers never have access to customers credit card information.
Wasson and Turner compared their app to Uber.
Anyone can sign up to be a driver and help make deliveries on their own time, money is made from a delivery fee on all orders and tips.
