You won’t believe that Uber Eats is… slow? So, before beginning this talk, let’s ask the consensus. Is it really? Honestly, several people find Uber Eats slow.
Over on X, formerly Twitter, netizen @rubyisnotabot posted, @rubyisnotabot, “Spent all day studying ant colony optimization only to realize I’ve basically recreated a very slow Uber Eats algorithm. Nature had billions of years to optimize these patterns, and here I am speedrunning evolution in my GPU.”
Meanwhile, X netizen @fx4_living went straight to the point.
They posted, “These Uber Eats are slow relative to my price deliveries.”
You know Uber Eats is the world’s number one food delivery platform, so this is questionable.
For others, this is the perfect opportunity to overtake Uber Eats. A food delivery app in Toronto has emerged, promising deliveries up to three times faster than Uber Eats.
Not perfect
The food delivery service is Jetson, where you can order on-demand delivery from the food and retail options near you.
The Ridesharing Forum peeps are doubting. What if you don’t like the food near your house or condominium? After all, the idea of food delivery services is to get you closer to restaurants you wouldn’t normally want to drive to due to traffic.
But, Jetson is this app where you can get food from nearby areas. It is partnered with One York Food Hall, Queen’s Cross Food Hall, and select retailers in CF Toronto Eaton Centre to provide pickup and delivery to five office towers and two condo towers.
In other words, this app is fast because they are sourcing your food just from nearby locations, and not because of leveraging technology. Quite funny. What a philosopher.
“Jetson achieves fast delivery by leveraging the incredible density of people within corporate office towers. Imagine a building with 25,000 square feet of ground-level space but 800,000 square feet of occupied office space above it, thousands of people all in one vertical community,” Jetson’s founder Andrew Oliver told ridesharing media.
To operate this system, Jetson uses runners, not drivers, who can make over 30 deliveries within an hour within a building. That’s huge, considering that they are still human workers.
“The slow return to office combined with rising inflation pushing more people to bring lunch from home has been a challenge,” says Oliver.
To address those problems, the app’s hyperlocalized model offers better-quality food, special offers, and new features, as well as lower costs and quick issue resolution.
“Getting food right is our top priority because it’s an essential part of the workday. Once we’ve nailed that, we plan to expand Jetson into a full-service platform that enhances office culture and simplifies daily life,” the Jetson founder stated.
Inspired by the pandemic
Jetson started, taking inspiration from the pandemic, promising deliveries up to three times faster than Uber Eats, to reiterate. The pandemic has pushed people to order food near their locations.
“Even before the pandemic, tenants were asking for more than just office space, they wanted lifestyle, amenities, and a sense of culture. When remote work took hold, it became clear that experience, not location, would define the future of office life. Jetson was born from that insight: to reimagine the workplace through the lens of hospitality,” Oliver pinpointed. “Our goal is to help people save time and enjoy more moments that matter, like with family and work-life balance.”