The future of fast food delivery is here.
Chick-fil-A’s Florida location exclusively offers drone delivery services to local customers.
Diners within a 1.2-mile radius of a Brandon/Valrico Chick-fil-A in Central Florida now have the option to have a spicy chicken sandwich and milkshake delivered via drone for a limited time.
Drone delivery is available between 10am and 6pm Monday to Friday, the restaurant announced on social media last week. The fast food company said it hopes to expand to a 2-mile radius in the near future.
The restaurant is partnering with DroneUp, a Virginia-based technology company that also launched a drone delivery service with Tampa Walmart last year, The Tampa Bay Times reported.
The popular fried chicken chain declined to share where drone delivery will be introduced next.
Drone delivery is now available at Chick-fil-A.Instagram / Chick-fil-A Drones can deliver food within a 1.2 mile radius Instagram / Chick-fil-A
“We are in the early stages of testing drone delivery at a small number of Chick-fil-A restaurants,” Chick-fil-A spokeswoman Chelsea Lee told local newspapers in an email.
Customers must select the “drone delivery” option on the Chick-fil-A app for the special service. After doing so, employees load their food orders into a cardboard box and attach the box to a drone outside the restaurant, according to a video posted by the restaurant showing how the process works.
The drone then flies the food to its destination, lowers the box by cable and drops it gently to the ground for the customer to pick up.
Food is loaded into boxes and lowered slowly.Instagram / Chick-fil-A Drone delivery is only available at one Florida location Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Getty Images
Drinks, which are closed before leaving the restaurant, can also be delivered, the location said.
“Just got ours – that’s really fast. The food was hot, perfect – thank you!!!!” a satisfied customer commented on the restaurant’s Facebook page.
Another posted a video of his delivery being delivered to his home: “Coolest thing ever,” he quipped.
Drones are the latest delivery innovation that Chick-fil-A has tried. The company announced last May that it was testing autonomous delivery vehicles in select restaurants across the country.
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