When you think of winter weather preparedness, you normally think of INDOT trucks and city plows dropping salt on roads. However, there’s other people who also hit the streets in bad weather and may not get the recognition – food delivery drivers. 

For the owner of food delivery service, Waiter On The Way, weather events allow his company to shine as a service to the community. That’s why Derek Berkes is beefing up his staff this weekend. 

He plans to call in five to 10 more drivers on Saturday, on top of the 25 to 30 drivers that work on a typical weekend night. The goal is to get deliveries out promptly and safely. 

“If the restaurants start to close or the roads get too bad, and we know hey, we probably need not to be out there driving making deliveries, at that point in time we might stop,” Berkes said. “But typically we try not to unless it’s too dangerous for the drivers.”

For last weekend’s snow, Waiter On The Way saw a 50% increase in delivery orders compared to a normal weekend. 

“We had minimal issues. I think we did a very good job at communicating with the customers of where we are, so our goal is to do the same thing this weekend.”

So while plows and salt trucks do their work, Berkes wants you to keep his drivers in mind as they do their best to get to you.

“It’s kind of like the UPS driver. You just kind of expect him to be there and you don’t really consider what that driver is going through to get there.”