GrubHub

GrubHub is a free delivery search engine. Its quite simple: users in enter their location to find all of the restaurants that deliver food to their addresses. Most of the 15,000 restaurants found on GrubHub come with restaurant menus, customer reviews, and delivery info. Users can order directly from the website through GrubHubs online ordering system or be old-fashioned and use the phone. GrubHub now serves Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, and New York, and is spreading to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.

Co-founders Maloney and Evans got the idea while working on Apartments.com - a search engine for apartments. They often ordered food for delivery but got tired of the same-old; they thought there should to be an online service listing of various restaurants that delivered but were shocked to find none.

GrubHub provides free advertising to all restaurants that deliver in their areas of operation, and restaurants pay on a per order basis to be sorted closer to the top of the search results. They currently earn approximately $1 million a year in revenues.

MenuPix and FoodieBytes are both similar services to GrubHub.com.