Imagine getting food delivered right to your door from restaurants that don’t typically offer delivery, all with a single click of a button. While it sounds like a dream, it has actually become a reality with the app Crunchbutton.
Crunchbutton is available to several different college campuses, such as Ohio State University, University of Dayton and, of course, MSU.
In East Lansing, Crunchbutton currently offers delivery from several places, such as Peanut Barrel, Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Starbucks.
Political theory and constitutional democracy junior Doug Hissong said he first heard about Crunchbutton on Twitter and decided to try it out. Since then, he said he thinks the app is great and has pretty good service.
“I asked them to personalize my name on a food once as “Boss” and they did that for my next couple ones too,” he said. “The guy I got kept calling me “Boss,” (it was) quite cool.”
Crunchbutton CEO Judd Rosenblatt said he first came up with the idea for the app during his senior year at Yale University.
“I just thought it’d be a cool idea, it didn’t exist at that point,” he said.
Crunchbutton, which was originally named “One Button Wenzel,” was first released at Yale University. It was incredibly successful, so Rosenblatt decided to expand to other college campuses.
It doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon, either. Rosenblatt said the app is growing at a speedy rate of 16 percent per week, and the app has been released to nine different college campuses.
In addition to offering food, the app also offers job opportunities. Anyone can apply to be a driver or a marketing representative.
“Right now, we just intend to continue exactly what we’re doing and make it better and better and expand to as many different communities as possible,” Rosenblatt said. “We want to be as responsive to any feedback as we can. We want to empower individual students at campuses across the country to get real feedback in something entrepreneurial of their own.”
Interdisciplinary humanities senior Kinsey Clarke said her only complaint was how Crunchbutton doesn’t start delivering until 5 p.m. Regardless, she said loves it and uses it frequently.
“I used to tell people if there was a way to get Chipotle delivered to my house I’d be broke, and that’s coming true,” she said.
