Using the new application, users were able to customize their orders to spec, checking off their favorite beans, meats, and toppings, all to be sent instantly to a nearby restaurant for pickup.
Deep-fried turkeys can also be ordered from the restaurants for pickup or delivery: 1644 Third Avenue (92d Street), (212) 426-2020, or 1461 First Avenue (76th Street), (212) 212-0999.
And Insight, which has set up interactive systems in Rockford, Ill., and Columbus, Ohio, is betting that the best way to bring the Internet into the living room is to focus on the most local information: restaurants, garbage pickup schedules, high school sports.
If you are already in a location while using the app, you can click on the name of the attraction and get help by clicking "Book Table" for restaurants, "Request Pickup" to get a ride from Uber, "Directions" and more.
Problem two: In 1996, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani broke the private cartels that fixed prices on restaurant-garbage pickups.
But farther north, in Currituck County, close to the Virginia border, the dread of the approaching unknown mixed with the rain.. Louis Davis, the owner of the Coinjock Marina and Restaurant, drove a pickup truck through his deserted community, as the wind jostled the vehicle and his cellphone rang with calls from worried boat owners.
In carryout, the accepted role of a visiting grandparent is to duck into the restaurant for the pickup while one parent waits behind the wheel of the double-parked car and the second parent remains at home, holding the baby with one hand and setting the table with the other.
Carlson used the cash to buy a California-based Asian food restaurant chain called PickUp Stix.
Anyway, so I called Ginjie and asked her if she wouldn't mind swinging by the restaurant after school pickup and getting my gloves, but all she kept saying was she didn't wish to be paid in gloves.
Expensive restaurants report a pickup in bookings.
Once, Martha told me, she arrived at the restaurant to find three pickup trucks full of masked soldiers in the lot, and the street closed to through traffic.
