Pleading your mom to take time out of her busy schedule and make your favorite food or fixing a date for the long awaited family dinner! These things should not bother anymore. With your favorite food just a call away, why compromise for an idly when your heart really wants to indulge in a cheesy pizza.

Started with only few branded restaurants, today most of city's restaurants offer free home delivery. Almost five years ago, the sight of the pizza hut igloo box attached bikes or the marry brown delivery vehicles would have received a heavy sigh of jealousy by on lookers. Today people just understand that some hungry soul is eagerly awaiting their food or just satisfying their craving to have their desired food.

"It is very difficult to plan a day out, go to my favorite restaurant to eat have a plate of American chopsuey. Now with restaurants coming up with their serving customer's better motto by providing free home delivery option, having my favorite food is not a big thing at all" says Nithya, Marketing executive.

The most common known free home delivery food is Pizza. When house is filled with unexpected friends or your mind when sought out to laziness, free home delivery comes like a superman rescuer. Few people are even ready to pay extra to get their food delivered.

Restaurants like Subway and Pizza hut does not deliver order if the caller's residents are away from the stipulated kilometers of home delivery. "Many times I have requested the restaurant authorities to relax on their rules or even collect extra cash to deliver to my house which belongs to greater Chennai" cribs Samyuktha.

Wondering what could be that surprise factor or a great marketing technique attached to have an upper hand even in this free home delivery sector, Delivery within 39 minutes or free reads the carton of pizza corner. So prompt is their delivery that they openly give such blank cheque offers to customers.

"Free home delivery is like a boon to we hostlers. We cannot get home made food, but we can atleast have good food" says Seniya Ahammed. These days not just high profile restaurants, but hotels like Saravana Bhavan which offers typical south Indian food also offers this home delivery system. Moving out of the restaurant circle, individual caterers prepare authentic food and present it at your door step.

SOWJANYA S