Chicago restaurants are always looking for ways to improve profit margins and save costs. Next week, they'll have an entirely new revenue source from a new service: online food ordering and delivery in partnership with Caviar.

On July 1, Caviar will formally debut its premier delivery service in Chicago with some of the best-tasting food from top-rated restaurants in the city. Caviar provides restaurants with a comprehensive delivery infrastructure, including order management, quality control, logistics, and its own drivers always on-call. 

Caviar conducts extensive taste testing and market research to ensure that the favorite foods from the best local restaurants that meet the uncompromising standards of Caviar "taste-makers" are available for delivery. Nearly ever restaurant on the Caviar site has a minimum of four stars on Yelp. Caviar is the only such service to feature: 

  • Exclusively the best local restaurants
  • Full-color picture menus
  • Real-time GPS delivery tracking
  • No minimum order requirements, and
  • Customized orders with a one-hour delivery window

Caviar customers first select their desired one-hour delivery window and place their order for delivery on the same day (or choose a future date) with any of the available restaurants within that hour. Customers can also order as a group by sharing their shopping cart with friends, family, and co-workers.

To celebrate the launch, Caviar is waiving the delivery fee for Chicago orders now through mid-July. 

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