do deliveries
idiom
: to take food or other goods to customers
The restaurant doesn't do deliveries.
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While Jackson South will no longer do deliveries, patients will still be able to get prenatal and postnatal care at the hospital, a Jackson Health executive told the Herald on Thursday, noting that maternal care extends beyond delivery.
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Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
Driving the news: The new ordinance requires food delivery platforms, including DoorDash and GrubHub, to get a permit from the Boston Transportation Department to do deliveries in the city.
—Steph Solis, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
To do deliveries, a migrant needed three things, all of which cost money.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
His restaurants can only do deliveries, which bring about 5 percent of revenue, not enough to pay salaries and rent.
—Reuters, NBC News, 31 May 2022
Nuro delivering some FedExes Delivery robot company Nuro, which makes a small street delivery vehicle but does most testing with modify Prius vehicles has announced a deal to do deliveries for FedEx.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2021
Eric offered DoorDash an exclusive right to do deliveries in exchange for decreasing the cut of the check that the delivery app takes for the service.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
Let the cooks cook and the rest of us can go out and do deliveries.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2020
Restaurants are only allowed to do deliveries and takeout after 9 p.m., gatherings will be limited to 100 people, and schools must operate at one-third capacity.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
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Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
Driving the news: The new ordinance requires food delivery platforms, including DoorDash and GrubHub, to get a permit from the Boston Transportation Department to do deliveries in the city.
—Steph Solis, Axios, 3 Feb. 2025
To do deliveries, a migrant needed three things, all of which cost money.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
His restaurants can only do deliveries, which bring about 5 percent of revenue, not enough to pay salaries and rent.
—Reuters, NBC News, 31 May 2022
Nuro delivering some FedExes Delivery robot company Nuro, which makes a small street delivery vehicle but does most testing with modify Prius vehicles has announced a deal to do deliveries for FedEx.
—Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2021
Eric offered DoorDash an exclusive right to do deliveries in exchange for decreasing the cut of the check that the delivery app takes for the service.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020
Let the cooks cook and the rest of us can go out and do deliveries.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2020
Restaurants are only allowed to do deliveries and takeout after 9 p.m., gatherings will be limited to 100 people, and schools must operate at one-third capacity.
—Nectar Gan, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
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