"Delivery food by taxi" service started Chiba New Corona May 7 16:28

A new delivery service has started in Chiba City for restaurants and taxi companies, whose sales are both declining due to the new coronavirus.

The service, named "Chiba Taku Deli," was launched this month, as a pre-registered restaurant receives food orders and is delivered by taxis with special permission to carry freight.

On the 7th, at a sushi restaurant in Chuo-ku, Chiba, sushi and seafood bowls were loaded into the trunk of a taxi and transported to a house about a kilometer away, and the driver handed me the product.

According to the Chiba City Tourism Association that planned this service, the delivery area is within a radius of about 3 kilometers from JR Chiba Station, and the delivery fee for one delivery is 500 yen.

Tomohiro Hayano, the representative of “Sushi Hana” who is registered for the service, said, “Since last month, I have stopped operating in the store, so I began to think that it would add more sales. The emergency declaration was extended. , I would like to continue delivering because there are rents for the store and the lives of the employees. ”

A man in his 70s who used the service said, “I stayed at home all the time and wanted to eat what the shop made. Sometimes I used this shop for a long time, so I'm happy to eat it by delivery. I was talking. "