Dinner Delivered Right To Your Dorm

Munchies and Meals College Guy 26 Apr 2007 1 Comment

â€œI will save my money - I will not buy anything â€“ I will not buy clothes, or food, or alcohol.â€ These are the promises that we make to ourselves that inevitably end up broken. While I can not help anyone find cheap or free alcohol, I have some suggestions for finding cheap food.
Campus Food provides a database of every restaurant that delivers to your college/university. In addition to being a list of easily accessible take out is that there are coupons. Other than the coupons normally offered by your restaurant of choice (which are automatically added to your total) you can â€œbuyâ€ coupons. Campus Food features a deal, hungry busters, where for example you could pay $50 and in return you receive 50 campus food bucks and additional coupons for free food. So by committing to spend $50 through the year you are rewarded with a free coupon.

In addition to coupons, Campus Food also features a section called favorites. Here, favorite order combinations for specific restaurants are created. So, for Dominoes Pizza, your favorite order might be one small pepperoni pizza, mozzarella sticks, and Buffalo wings which you would then give a name (PreGame). Then you can either logon to Campus Food then select your favorite OR (even better) text Campus Food. Upon signing up, you will receive a specific number to text that will recognize your phone number and pull up all your delivery information. This means that when you are heading into your 5 pm class and want to have your food ready by the time you get out, just text Campus Food â€œPreGameâ€ and your pizza, mozzarella sticks, and Buffalo wings will be waiting at your dorm once class is over.

Campus Food has a lot of other cool options that are worth looking into once you create your account. For all of you in the Boston area there is another site you should check out called Foodler.com (also a database of delivery restaurants). Although it does not feature coupon packages or order texting, Foodler.com does feature a few restaurants that campus food does not, that (in my personal opinion) are a little better.

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R.A. responded on 14 Jun 2007 at #

These are both great websites, but just wanted to add that Foodler.com does also provide discounts (coupon packages), as well as favorites. Discounts are displayed in the restaurant listing (not like Campusfood, Foodler.com just indicates which restaurant has discount), and once you click on the restaurant, the discounts are shown on the right side.