DoorDash is the food delivery service every one and their mom knows about. Being a well-known name people are very hesitant on trying out a new type of deliver service. Everyone is more comfortable with things that work and don’t like change even when it could save you money. College students raves about DoorDash and Uber Eats but the new delivery service provider, goPuff, is making a buzz amongst students. Founded the same year as DoorDash in 2013, goPuff is steadily increasing in sales and popularity. They will soon knock out DoorDash for the head spot in food delivery services in college towns. GoPuff is a 100% free app for iOS, and Android phones found in the app store. Download, add the city you live in, order everything your heart desires and let goPuff do the rest.

The idea of this simple alcohol and food deliver service was created by two college students Rafael Lilshayev and Yakir Gola. After graduating from Drexel University in 2015, they sparked the idea of an easy way for college students to get their everyday life essential without ever leaving campus. As students starting up, their senior year was hectic and draining; finding time for homework and class while starting up the company and putting their ideas from paper onto stone. Although they did it; now making themselves one of the highest competitors in food delivery services. “For over a year, its revenue has increased 25 percent month-over-month, and it recently closed an $8.25 million series.” GoPuff is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. GoPuff was originally an on-demand hookah delivery service but expanded to delivering food. GoPuff now delivers food, drinks, cleaning supplies, home needs and over the counter medicine; all from their own warehouse. GoPuff doesn’t have any third-party providers. That means no stop location like DoorDash, it comes straight from the goPuff warehouses located as far as 30 minutes from the delivery location. Their warehouse locations have 3,000+ products stocked already in their facilities. No waiting on third party sellers and not having the worry of it not being in stock or available. What you order is what you get. On the goPuff web site they go by the slogan “Order in seconds and delivered in minutes” and it for sure is. Delivered personally from the goPuff drivers, hired and interview through goPuff unlike door dash drivers who can be anyone who passes a background check. GoPuff is available in 150 major cities throughout the US. Many in major college Towns including Baltimore MD, College Park MD, Athens GA, and State College PA. “People are following us because they love what we’re doing,” Rafael Lilshayev says.“ GoPuff now makes thousands of deliveries a day. In Philadelphia, where the company first launched, it is currently the largest provider of both ice cream and beer of any distributor. ”The name caught on and stuck and now 7 years later they have 200+ facilities, in 500+ cities and 4,000 employees around the world serving college students in college towns around the world.

Rafael Lilshayev and Yakir Gola’s story really hits home for me because being a college student myself I love to see other college students making their ideas and dreams into a reality. They started from the bottom and now they are making a multimillion-dollar company a reality. Rafael Lilshayev says in an interview, “There’s never a better time to start a business,” he says. “What’s the worst that can happen? You fail when you’re young?”. I love their story of being so little and now making it big working for the biggest group of consumers in the food deliver services, college students. College towns needed a company that could not only sell alcohol but everything they would need for game days.

Picture this, you’re an alumni visiting your old college on game day. Amongst the chaos of game day rituals and tailgating you realize you forgot to pick up some things for the tailgate and you run out of red solo cups. No worries! You get out your phone and open up the goPuff app. You find red solo cups in seconds time along with more beer, chips and hot dogs. You order them and go back to enjoying your time talking and catching up with people you haven’t seen in a while. The goPuff delivery driver arrives in less than 30 minutes later and walks it out straight to you. You sigh with relief not having to worry anymore. GoPuff had your back when you needed it the most. DoorDash cannot offer you the convenience goPuff can.  These are real life scenarios that can make or break your game day. GoPuff also can provide you products for grilling and barbecues, hotdogs, buns, ketchup and mustard. Its so simple to order all the essentials for the perfect tailgate meals and have it delivered to you when you get to the game rather than worrying about it before hand.

Let me tell you about a time goPuff was there for me when I needed it. Living on campus as a college freshman I had to learn how to be an adult, to say the least. That includes taking care of myself when I’m sick. I was very sick in February and I didn’t have any medicine on hand. Not having my car on campus and being to sick to Uber to the closest convenient store was the biggest nightmare. I decided to order goPuff, my first order on goPuff was for some medicine. I ended up ordering more than just cold medicine. I ordered some soup, NyQuil, cough drops, and even Pedialyte. Gopuff delivered so fast and  in less than 30 minutes to my dorm. The convenience of the deliver was impeccable and the driver even brought it into my building giving it to the secretary for me to pick up. The delivery fee was only $1.95. Much cheaper than it would be for me to Uber to a CVS from my dorm. They went above and beyond delivering it to me and made it very simple for me to receive it. After my first order I was hooked and ordered more than twice a week after then. This is just my personal testimony of how goPuff impacted my whole college experience but don’t just hear it from me, I have many pleased customer testimonies raving about how goPuff impacted their life and helped them out in some way. One happy customer wrote on the Yelp review web site “I really like the goPuff app. It’s really convenient for someone like me who doesn't have a car and can’t get around easily. All the people are nice, I wish they would knock louder since I do have an upstairs area where I tend to be but, overall can't live without this app”. Also, “GoPuff is wonderful! Used first for an alcohol delivery. Fast delivery (usually within 10-15 min) and they call if something is not available. Had that happen and they do great substitutions!! I recommend goPuff to all my friends!”. ”Tried goPuff for the first time today, and I was extremely impressed with how fast my order was delivered.  I definitely recommend goPuff. Within 15 min my order was delivered.” “I got a bad cold, had a sick cat & was on a strict low carb... after checking 7 eleven, all the other foods deliveries goPuff was the only place that had cat treats, affordable medicine, & food options that I could eat. Thank you, goPuff.”

GoPuff offers more than onetime delivery. They have an option within the app to be a “Fam Member” this means you sign up to a membership that gives you free deliveries on every order for only $5.95 a month. This is a pretty good deal while being a college student considering they deliver everything you could ever need without the need to go to Target or Walmart; you will never have to leave your dorm. This is a pretty great idea considering everything going on with the pandemic and world at this time. Your health is the top priority to goPuff and making it so you can get all your necessities and need straight to your door in a matter of 15 to 30 minutes is a pretty good deal for around $6 a month.

After all these testimonies and reading the positive reviews people say about goPuff, still don’t take word for it? You can use the code “lilhungry” for $10 off your first two orders and try it out for yourself. Be apart of the goPuff family and experience their benefits as well and form your own opinion on their services. When planning your next trip to visit your favorite college town make sure you use collegeweekends.com and plan ahead with goPuff to have all your game day necessities delivered to you before you arrive so the only thing on your mind is the fun and games. So why don’t you goPuff?