"A business comes into being with the first sale," Evans wrote. It was the first dollar the company made. Shortly after, Maloney left their office for a long lunch, talked to a Chinese restaurant owner and her bartender son about this newfangled online delivery guide, and they paid $140 to be "premium listed" on for six months. Evans told Maloney about his idea to have restaurants pay to be listed at the top of the Grubhub website. So he decided the hobby delivery guide needed to make some money, get him off someone else's payroll and maybe even help him pay off the $236,000 in student debt he and his wife Christine had accumulated.Įnter: friend and coworker Matt Maloney. Evans hated his job at the time - like, listening-to-"I-quit"-songs hated his job.
After the armpit moment, Evans created a map with Chicago restaurants, restaurant names and phone numbers during an all-night coding session and Lucky Charms binge.Īt the time it had no delivery service - it was just an online list and map divided out by zip code, and sometimes Evans would scan and add menus after ordering from nearby restaurants using the list.
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