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It's 10:00 p.m. Tuesday when you
finally set down the calculus book. You
shale your head to clear the fcg, and
try to think lexically cgiin. YouVc been
staring at that book for almost four
houi.5.
Suddenly, your stomach kicks over
and lets out a growL You sure could
use something to fill up that empty pit
in there. In fact, if you don't fill it fast,
you just might pass out.
No problem. You just reach across
the desk for the phone, dial a familiar
number and presto! Within SO min
utes, you are ch owing down on peppe
roni and cheese on wheat bread, potato
chips and a Big Chipper cookie, com
pliments of Little King's delivery.
Several restaurants deliver to cam
pus. Depending on the time of day;
hungry students can order almost any
thing from a steak sandwich to bar
becued chicken in a bucket to a super-
deluxe pizza with extra cheese.
The future of restaurants is in the
delivery business, several local restau
rant owners esid.
"A trend in delivery has been going
on, end the delivery business is going
to be cm," said Glenn Rolofson, Lincoln
area upcrv to Dor
Domino's had an open market for
deliveries during its first years in Lin
coln, Rolof.on said. Now, more pizza
places deliver, he said, and that is
good. Competition creates more aware
ness, he said.
"Competition is healthy," Rolofson
said. "It keeps us from getting sloppy."
Valentino's gives Domino's the most
competition, Kclofjcn said, because
"every one in Lincoln has grown up on
Valentino's." He said it will take Domi
no's time to overcome this.
Other types of restaurants now offer
ing delivery haven't noticeably effected
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Domino's, he said.
Rolofson said that the competition
did cause Domino's to improve the
quality of its pizza and get it to custo
mers faster than any other restaurant.
Domino's advertises 30-minute deliv
ery and no delivery charge.
Domino's cculd not exist without
the delivery service, Rolofson said, since
85 percent of its business is from deliv
ery. He also said the franchise "would
be lost" without business from the UNL
campus, which h why they spend a lot
of money on advertising to campus.
Valentino's began delivering in the ,
fall of 1 G32. Its main goal was to provide
a service to the campus, especially
those without transportation, said co
owner Ron Messineo.
Messineo said he is optimistic about
the future of general delivery. He said
he sees delivery becoming more impor
tant in 10 years.
"One problem we have at Valentino s
is that we are not set up exclusively for
deliveries," he said. "We also have a res
taurant, so it's hard to get a pizza out
in half an hour and still have the
quality."
But, people are usually willing to
wait a little longer for Valentino's pizza,
he said.
Business increased somewhat with
the delivery, Messineo said, but Valen
tino's could live without it.
Valentino's delivers pizza, lasagne
and any of its take-out pastas. There is
no delivery charge.
Delivery started slow
Little King's also began delivery in
the fall of 1 932. Management had hoped
to increase night business, especially
from campus, said Steve Mikkelson,
assistant manager at the 27th and Y
location.
Mikkelson said the delivery service
started slow, and many people still
aren't aware Little King's delivers, he
said. But business is picking up, and
the delivery service has developed a
regular clientele, he said.
Mikkelson said Little King's has had
promotions to make more people aware
that it delivers.
. He said Little King's delivers every
thing on its menu, which includes 20.
different sandwiches, soup, chips and
dinner salads. Little Kings charges $1
for any size delivery order.
Gregg Wiergert, assistant manager
of Chartroose Caboose, said the steak
sandwich shop added the delivery ser
vice to bring more business in and to
compete with other places.
"Actually, delivery isn't that big of a
deal here," Wiegert said. "We added it
because we felt we had to."
Chartroose is doing good enough
business without it, he said, but some
times it helps a lot.
Wiegert said Chartroose prefers to
bring customers into the store because
management feels they can serve them
better there. But, he added, many col
lege students don't have transportation.
Delivery is free from Chartroose Ca
boose, but orders must include at least
four sandwiches.
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Not too many people are aware that
Pete's Chicken 'N' a EkUIct delivers yet '
Pete Peterson, the owner, said. Pete's'
which specializes in chicken, cheese
frenchees and ribs, been open lees
than a year. Peterson dceided'to offer
delivery as an extra service List Novem
ber. :
"Delivery i j u : t a service now," Peter
son said. "We're net depending on it for
profit."
But, he said, he hopes in time to
become more competitive with the
other delivery services to campus.
Pete's frequently delivers to the state
office building downtown, he said, but a
majority of the deliveries no to campus.
"We like to be able to oLer customers
something more than just pizza," he
said.
Pete's delivers everything on its menu,
for a varying delivery charge less than
$2.
Weekends bucy
Sunday night is the busiest night for
deliveries to campus because the resi
dence halls don't serve food that night.
Friday and Saturday nights are also a
busy night to order in, the store owners
said.
Both Domino's and Valentino's said
they deliver steadily during the week,
with business picking up around 10
p.m.
Peterson said more deliveries go to
Abel-Sandoz and Cather-Pound dor
mitories than anywhere else on campus.
Delivering to campus can prove to
be interesting sometimes, several deli
very persons agreed.
Drunk people late at night are the
only real problems, though, said Steve
Kauf, an assistant manager of Domi
no's at 611 North 27th Street.
Domino's has had a couple of its
- delivery persons robbed, but the robbers,
who were intoxicated, were caught
and prosecuted, Kauf said. No one was
'physically harmed.
"Sometimes it's difficult to find the
person who ordered the pizza, at a
party with 20 people really cracked,"
Harry Moore, a driver for Domino's
said.
But people at parties are usually
nice, Jerry Vossen, a driver for Valenti
no's said.
"They know I'm about the same age
as they are, so they try to get me to
come in for a beer," he said. Vossen is a
sophomore in criminal justice at UNL
Interesting tips are a big part of
weekend deliveries, another driver said.
A Valentino's driver was offered a
piece of Domino's pizza one night, and
another one once received a handful of
cookies.
A delivery person from Little King
stepped into the elevntor in Pound one
niht, and two women bombarded him
with confettL
"Students like to give us a hard time,"
a Domino's driver said. "But it 's mostly
in fun and they don't mean much by it.
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