Strangest takeaway order destinations revealed
To discover the strangest places people have felt the need to eat a takeaway, one of the UK’s leading online takeaway ordering websites, hungryhouse.co.uk looked at sales data and site statistics.
On carrying out the research, hungryhouse.co.uk found that previous orders through the site had been delivered to a graveyard, a dentist and a roundabout.
When collating the results, the website also discovered that food had been ordered from and delivered to a rival fast food chain. The list of the strangest places across the UK people had ordered food to via hungryhouse.co.uk was then pulled together into a top ten and the results, in no particular order, were as follows;
1. A graveyard, North London
2. A roundabout, Birmingham
3. Dentist surgery, East London
4. The Ritz, London
5. A gym, Liverpool
6. Slimming organisation, Nottingham
7. University Library, Manchester
8. Bristol airport
9. HMS Victory, Southampton
10. Lido (outdoor swimming pool), South London
Other delivery destinations included a garden centre in Derby, a doctor’s surgery in Worcestershire and a leisure centre in the Essex area.
The site also wanted to find out more about people’s takeaway habits, so also polled a sample of 1,378 people. More than a third, 36%, of the people polled said that they had ordered takeaway food to their place of work in the past, whilst 54% said they were more likely to eat takeaway food at a friend’s house, rather than in their home.
Graeme Horne, Marketing Manager at hungryhouse.co.uk, said the following about the findings;
"This research certainly brought a smile to my face. I must admit, I always fancy a takeaway when I leave the gym - but I've never been brave enough to have one delivered there!"
He continued,
"I was shocked at some of the locations that people have ordered a takeaway to. I suppose it could be put down to people not having any menus handy at work, so searching online. Delivery is always an easier alternative to venturing to the shops, especially late at night when most of these experiences seem to have happened!"
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