With the click of a mouse, Ohio State students can find cheaper food at a faster pace.
Justin Melnikoff, a senior in marketing, Dan Healy, a sophomore in marketing, and Andrew Spott, a sophomore in finance, have created a new system for OSU students to order food online.
When students visit their Web site, www.sloopymenus.com, a wide range of restaurants in the Columbus area come up on the screen. Students are able to choose a restaurant and place an order for delivery or pick-up. The orders are sent over the Internet as a fax to the restaurant, Melnikoff said.
"On game days students wait 20-30 minutes on phones calling in orders," Melnikoff said.
This system does away with the hassle of calling in orders to restaurants, he said.
The Web site is designed to be quick and easy, Healy said. When students check out the Web site they will find special deals on food, a list of participating restaurants along with bar specials in the area.
"We cover bar specials from Lane (Avenue) all the way to the Ugly Tuna Saloona," Melnikoff said. The bar specials are updated daily to give students current information.
Everyday the amount of participating restaurants is expanding, Spott said.
In the future, Spott hopes everywhere that delivers in the Columbus area will be on the Web site.
"We want to be a portal for the students," Spott said.
Melnikoff said the service is offered free and is meant to save students as much money as possible.
The number of hits on the Web site picks up everyday. Right now it is at about 1,500 hits per day, Melnikoff said.
The creators of the site came to campus a month before school began to start recruiting businesses. The site was launched on Sept. 21, Melnikoff said.
"We were aware of many other campuses that had online services and we wanted something for OSU," Healy said.
Planning started in the summer and things have taken off since then. Most of the restaurants were really interested in the idea, Healy said.
Students can save orders they make to restaurants and use it again the next time they visit the Web site, Melnikoff said.
There has been nothing but positive feedback from restaurants and students, Healy said.
If students are low on cash and want to speed along the process of ordering food, the Web site is definitely the way to go, Melnikoff said.
All three students said that they can relate to wanting convenience and cheaper deals when it comes to food. Students hear about the Web site and think they have to pay to use it, but that is not the case, Melnikoff said.
"It's free and it's there to save everyone money," he said.
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