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BE PREPARED to pay more for hot meals served to your door.
A number of food-delivery services, having to cope with what they call a 'double whammy' - higher food and transport costs - have upped their delivery fees or menu prices, or both.
At a time when consumers are warming up to the food-delivery service, operators say they are trying to strike a delicate balance between coping with costs and keeping their dial-in customers.
A Straits Times check with 25 food-delivery services found that more than half have increased their menu prices by at least a dollar in the last few months.
Five have also upped their delivery fees, while three have increased their minimum order amount.
Among the 'big three', only McDonald's has increased its delivery fee from $2 to $3. Pizza Hut does not charge for delivery while KFC is keeping its fee at $2. Both have raised their menu prices though.
Two months ago, Sarpino's Pizzeria, which delivers Italian meals, raised prices of its pizzas by $2 to $3.
Manager Ang Leong Kee, 44, blamed rising food and transport costs for its move.
At its Jurong outlet, which uses four motorbikes for deliveries of up to 30 per day, the monthly petrol bill has doubled from $300 to $600.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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