It\u2019s 10 p.m. on a Friday and you have a hankering for some Thai food. But you\u2019re already in your jammies, and you don\u2019t want to drive to your favorite Thai restaurant.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a solution. Call Swingby<\/a>. They\u2019ll have it to you in 40 minutes or less, said owner Wesley Hsu.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s a need a lot of people have,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, they\u2019re craving a specific food and they don\u2019t want to get in their car and drive there. It\u2019s been an idea I\u2019ve had for kind of a while.\u201d<\/p>\n Hsu isn\u2019t alone. Not only can San Diegans get a restaurant dinner, but notebooks, pens, and other household goods, wines, beer and any kind of alcohol.<\/p>\n Even a cup of Starbucks coffee.<\/p>\n Delivery services are on the rise all over the nation, making the need to leave your house almost obsolete. Food and beverage delivery is expected to be a $100 billion market by 2019, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n Hsu started his business from his Normal Heights home in June 2014. He delivers to the Uptown area and UC San Diego. In just a few months, Swingby has done so well he is looking for investors, and hopes to expand to all of San Diego County.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Uber can work, if Lyft can work, why wouldn\u2019t food delivery work?\u201d said the 27-year-old UCSD graduate.<\/p>\n Hsu isn\u2019t the only entrepreneur with that idea. Saucey<\/a> delivers any alcohol, wine, beer and spirits, to neighborhoods in San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Chris Vaughn, Saucey CEO and co-founder, created the business when he found he and his fianc\u00e9e, an operating room nurse who works long hours, couldn\u2019t order a bottle of wine to complete their dinner.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can do anything on demand, but when it came to ordering a bottle of wine, there wasn\u2019t a service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n It\u2019ll cost you, though. A case of 24 bottles of Corona beer costs $41.50 for delivery from Saucey, and $27.99 plus tax at BevMo.<\/p>\n Still, people must forgo the cost because Saucey is expanding in San Diego, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going very well,\u201d Vaughn said. \u201cPeople like to have beer, wine, cocktails and spirits at their door in 20 to 30 minutes. It\u2019s a very seamless, fast process.\u201d<\/p>\n Postmates, a delivery service throughout San Diego as well as nationally and internationally, delivers just about anything \u2014 even Starbucks \u2014 for a delivery charge.<\/p>\n \u201cPostmates acts as a personal assistant,\u201d said Postmates deliverer Tim Palcho. \u201cA pound of apples, a Mac \u2014 anything I can legally get you, I\u2019ll bring.\u201d<\/p>\n En su sitio web, Postmates<\/a> posts general store items. For example, a box of 28 Huggies is $13.49, two ballpoint pens are $6.79, and six pingpong balls are $3.49. There\u2019s a service fee of $2.14, and a delivery fee of $12.25.<\/p>\n Total: $38.16<\/p>\n![\"DSC_0196web\"](\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_0196web.jpg\")
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<\/a>But a cup of Starbucks will really cost you. A grande vanilla macchiato can be delivered to your front door or office in one hour for $15.45.<\/p>\n