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October 3, 2008

Details on the Brooklyn Take-Out Taxi

The only places that deliver in Bedford-Stuyvesant are pizza, Chinese, and Brook’s valley. Donna Walrond would know. A single mother of two young boys, she’s been struggling with the nabe’s culinary dearth since she moved here 6 years ago. She knew she wasn’t the only one suffering, so she launched Take-Out Taxi (718-374-4594), a one-woman delivery service that will pick up orders from restaurants all over Brooklyn and deliver them to your doorstep for $5 to $8 depending on distance.

She now picks up and delivers from anywhere in Bed Stuy, Stuyvesant Heights, Crown Heights, Leffert Gardens, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Green and Park Slope. Lunch hours are Monday to Friday, 11:30 to 2pm. Dinner hours are 5:30 to 9pm on Sunday through to Thursday, and goes until 10pm on Friday and Saturday. You can call the restaurant and then call her, or she can put through the order for you. There are menus of 15 favorite restaurants up on her website.

This is a great idea, filling perfectly the gap between the yuppies who’ve moved into Bed-Stuy and the food scene in the nabe which is still lagging behind. It’s also a real grassroots, entrepreneurial effort. She got the idea, printed a thousand postcards, and has just been handing them out at the subway on Throop hoping to kick it off. It’s been less than a month, but on a busy night she can get about 7 calls. In addition to the taxi, Donna also runs a cleaning service.

Rachel Chang

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What a great idea, and great entrepeneurial spirit! She is going to be enormously successful, and will probably need more delivery people as the word gets out. I'm going to check it out, and tell my friends.

Good luck, Donna.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at October 3, 2008 10:24 AM

Old news. This was on Bed Stuy Blog several weeks ago. But nice to see it on a blog with reach outside of Bed Stuy

Posted by: 7andfive at October 3, 2008 10:30 AM

I like her already. She'll be hearing from me.

Posted by: East New York at October 3, 2008 10:33 AM

She should learn how to spell Ft. Greene or her cleaning website if she wants my business.

Posted by: diego at October 3, 2008 10:41 AM

She's great, but misspells Ft. Greene on both her websites.

Posted by: diego at October 3, 2008 10:42 AM

Brilliant. I'm thrilled. Such a glaring desperate need for this in these neighborhoods. Good for her. I hope she is very successful. I know we will use this service a lot.

Posted by: traditionalmod at October 3, 2008 10:48 AM

good luck to her, i love people that are doing it on their own.

Posted by: sender9999 at October 3, 2008 11:04 AM

But NANA on 5th AVE.., does not accept credit cards!!!!!

It's a great idea though!

Posted by: snowboardqueen at October 3, 2008 11:05 AM

That is a really cool idea.

Posted by: Polemicist at October 3, 2008 12:01 PM

I think she is going to do well... she has my support....

Posted by: Amzi Hill at October 3, 2008 12:44 PM

Not only does she have my support and admiration, I just e-mailed her and offered to copyedit both of her sites pro bono. Sisterhood is powerful (and more so when spelled and punctuated correctly)!

Posted by: I_haz_TWO_toilets at October 3, 2008 12:52 PM

Since when is spelling a requirement for success? Sounds like you should do your own cleaning if you are that picky or just hire someone with an English PhD. She has a great idea and there is always someone with some negative crap to add their insignificant nonsense.

Posted by: Iknow at October 3, 2008 1:32 PM

great idea! wish I thought of it (of course I don't have a car but maybe I could have trained the cats to run little wagons?

I wish her all the best and think anyone who has to snark on her spelling is just jealous. Don't think she's want your business either.

Posted by: bxgrl at October 3, 2008 1:35 PM

oops- "she wants your"

Posted by: bxgrl at October 3, 2008 1:51 PM

Best of luck to her!

Posted by: west1 at October 3, 2008 2:04 PM

For what it's worth, there are A LOT of people who make judgements about spelling/grammar on professional websites. I wasn't snarking on her at all.

Posted by: I_haz_TWO_toilets at October 3, 2008 2:24 PM

I think bxgrl was referring to "diego." I haz, not you. Nothing wrong with what you said and I bet it's appreciated. diego on the other hand was hardly constructive

Posted by: lurker in the mist at October 3, 2008 2:49 PM

Great for her! What a fantastic idea. Wish I had thought of it. I'll certainly be using the service, now that I know about it.

Posted by: WATCH US EXPLODE at October 3, 2008 4:14 PM

I haz- I really was referring to diego. sorry- didn't mean to be confusing.

Posted by: bxgrl at October 3, 2008 6:51 PM

Good Luck to you Donna,hope you are very successful at this.Don't mind the jealous ones.You go girl.

Posted by: shellie at October 3, 2008 9:44 PM

Thank you to everyone for your comments, the good and the bad. I look forward to meeting you all when I deliver your food.

Posted by: DonnaJ at October 4, 2008 7:55 AM

Sounds like a great idea, but I also saw this story in the PROFILE section on stuyvesantheights.blogspot.com a few weeks ago.

Posted by: tridoublep at October 4, 2008 11:59 AM

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