Mary's Cakes and Pastries partners with UberEats for deliveries of basic items such as cookies, cookie cakes, and dessert cakes. We have tried chasing students down with deliveries, and prefer to stick to what we do best - baking!
Sometimes UberEats works like a charm. Sometimes it takes some work. I am of the opinion that UberEats was designed more for internet savvy people to order food for themselves from a nearby restaurant, rather than out of town parents to order sweets to be delivered to their student in a dorm or apartment.
Here are some things we have discovered to make UberEats work better for deliveries of sweets to your student:
- I like the app better than navigating the website, but if you are averse to apps you can go to Ubereats.com and place an order. The app (or website) defaults to your city. If you are trying to place a delivery order from OUTSIDE TUSCALOOSA OR NORTHPORT, you must FIRST change the delivery address to your student’s local street address. UberEats does NOT deliver to post office boxes or mail drops. You will need to enter a physical street address.
- The app (or website) also defaults to DELIVER NOW, which means NOW. While the bakery is capable of prepping an order for delivery in 10-15 minutes, we'd prefer a bit more time to decorate or personalize your items (such writing happy birthday in a particular color on a cake). You can schedule a delivery up to 5 days in advance. Pick "SCHEDULE" at the top of the screen to schedule a delivery, even if it is an hour from now.
- Your delivery must be scheduled for a time when the bakery is open. This may seem obvious, but the the delivery driver has to come to the bakery to pick up your order and they can only do this when we are open. Our hours are 10-5 on Tuesday through Friday, and 10-3 on Saturday. UberEats will tell you we are unavailable if you try to order or schedule a delivery outside these hours.
- You must PLACE your delivery when the bakery is open. Again, this may seem obvious, but we must manually accept the order, and we can only do this if we are physically at the bakery, and the UberEats tablet is turned on. Again, our hours are 10-5 on Tuesday through Friday, and 10-3 on Saturday. UberEats will tell you we are unavailable if you try to place or initiate an order outside these hours.
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