DIAL-A-DINNER, BUT IS ANYONE THERE?

It was so much more simple then.

There was only Food By Fone started up by the same group of semi-movers and shakers in Hong Kong who invested in a number of small businesses that all went south, which one could call and order home a lunch or dinner mainly from the Lan Kwai Fong area.

The business was off-the-hook, and, for a few years, Food By Fone was going ring-a-ding-ding.

Of course, in Hong Kong, success breeders copyists, and Cuisine Courier came on the scene.

Overnight, through their “restaurant reach” and connections and competitive percentages on orders placed, they offered the stay-at-homes more restaurant choices- Thai, Chinese, Italian, Chinese Italian, Indian, Indonesian, Lebanese- until, today, Food By Phone is left hanging on the line.

Call Food By Phone today and they have lost the delivery services for a large number of restaurants.

It’s so frustrating to call them and hear those plaintive words, “Sorry, but they are temporarily not with us.”

What “temporarily”?

They’ve gone- vamoosed- hit the Happy Trails, adios, amigos.

Enter Dial-A-Dinner into the scene with its new set of drivers from the sub-continent- do these guys ever bathe or ever heard of a deodorant?- and, with lower prices, built up a decent client list. But, not for long.

Dial-A-Dinner has now also gone South leaving- say many restaurants who bought into their delivery services- with no payment made through their deliveries.

Jeez, it almost sounds like one of former M1NT whiz kid Alistair Paton’s fledgling ponzie schemes.

Meanwhile, the new company that has taken over this Titanic refuses to pay Dial-A-Dinner’s bad debts and which, we predict, will see a number of legal cases- not as big as all the hoopla involving Rafael Hui and the Kwok brothers- but money is money, cheats are cheats and cons are cons.

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