Tap that app to eat

Online food delivery services satisfy hungry consumers with quality service, timely drops and affordable meals

On a recent business trip, Liu Qidi, 30, a manager with a family-owned cosmetics firm in Wuhan, Hubei province, arrived hungry around 9 pm at her hotel room in Yichang city in the same province in Central China. For supper, she neither visited the in-house restaurant nor stepped out into the chilly weather.

By 9:10 pm, however, a delivery man from a local takeout materialized with a fresh hot pizza and milk tea. Liu had ordered the food using an app on her way to the hotel.