The greater Houston area has far fewer delivery drivers per capita than most American cities --- Even Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Maybe it's the year-round-mostly-drivable weather and the fact that most almost 96% of Greater Houston Area Households own a car that contributes to our driving ourselves to local eateries, grocery stores and wine shops. A recent Porch study found us having only 4 delivery workers for every thousand people. Kelsey Erickson Streufert of the Texas Association of Restaurants says food is a major source for delivery, but Houston is a city of neighborhoods. "Houston has these neighborhoods with all of this local neighborhood pride - and I think undermines the delivery a little bit." Since the Covid Lockdown, delivery has grown here, but a recent Porch study says not so much the number of drivers here. .
Streufert says the labor shortage here is fierce. "Labor is a huge challenge everywhere in Houston but especially so in the delivery sector. You can't use technology and robots to get it done, it all depends on people. They depend on people!" She also says we do love our neighborhood haunts and would rather sit down or even pick up in person than have our favorites delivered to our homes...except for pizza.
Read information from the Porch study.
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