2024-01-14 19:42:06
– These are the most bizarre food orders in the canton of Bern
Bernese people like to order their food online. Which dish they love, how much they tip – and when laziness takes over.
Published: January 14, 2024, 8:42 p.m
Bernese people are happy to order: food couriers have a lot to do in the canton of Bern.
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During the pandemic, it happened out of necessity. However, having food delivered to your home has long since become a comfortable habit for many people.
In the canton of Bern, too, people order as much as they can. The major Swiss food delivery services do not disclose absolute figures for competitive reasons. However, they are all talking regarding a new record that was set last year.
According to the provider Just Eat, Bern is also “one of the most important and busiest regions when it comes to orders”. The largest order volume is – logically due to its size – recorded from the city of Bern, followed by Biel, Thun, Burgdorf and Interlaken.
But what do the people of Bern prefer to have delivered? How much money do they order food for? And on which days are the orders particularly hot? A data analysis from Just Eat, Uber Eats and the Migros Aare subsidiary Foodnow at the request of this editorial team provides interesting answers.
The most popular dish
Nobody loves pizza like the people of Bern. However, your favorite variant is considered a culinary no-go.
Photo: Enzo Lopardo
When it comes to the most popular dishes among Bernese customers, every delivery service has its own champion. At Just Eat it’s the Margherita pizza, at Uber Eats it’s chili cheese nuggets and at Foodnow it’s the Korean meat dish Bulgogi.
If you had to agree on the Bernese people’s favorite dish, it would probably be pizza. The Italian classic appears at the top of the rankings for all providers.
Uber Eats even describes the city of Bern as the pizza capital compared to other Swiss cities. “16 percent of all orders included a pizza in 2023,” writes the provider.
However, the statistics also show that Bernese do not shy away from culinary crimes. The most frequently delivered pizza on Uber Eats was not the classic Margherita, but the controversial Hawaii pizza. In addition to pineapple, local customers also prefer tuna, gorgonzola and pear as toppings.
The peak days
The colder it is outside, the hotter the food orders are.
Photo: Urs Jaudas
The statistics from food suppliers clearly show that demand is greatest in the winter months. “In general, cooler temperatures and uncomfortable weather lead to increased orders,” says Foodnow.
December is named as a record month by two providers. There is a lot of activity, especially in the New Year week. Of all the days of the week, orders are placed most frequently on Sunday.
The most expensive order
A woman from Bern ordered sushi for over 1,000 francs – the most expensive order of the year.
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Once you’ve decided to have food delivered to your home, you usually treat yourself to something. However, the fact that the order costs a four-figure sum is the exception.
This is what happened at Foodnow, where a customer had 10 large sushi plates delivered to her home last year. Cost: 1120 francs. It was the most expensive order of the year.
However, the opposite also happens. At Just Eat, someone ordered a single dessert for just two francs – setting the record for the cheapest order.
The most loyal customer
The delivery services have some regular customers, some of whom even order several times a day.
Photo: Urs Jaudas
Despite the growing offering, food orders are likely to be the exception for the average person. But for a few it is obviously the rule.
All providers talk regarding regular customers who regularly order from them. Some even very regularly. The top orderer at Foodnow last year, for example, was a customer from Stadtbern who placed 189 orders, i.e. a good every other day.
There was someone on Uber Eats who even ordered 325 times. But it happens even more often. Just Eat reports from the canton of Bern: One person “ordered 400 times on our platform last year”.
The laziest customer
Orders with delivery routes just a few meters away? That happens too.
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As is well known, people can lose some of their rationality when their stomachs growl. This is reflected in the long distances that are sometimes traveled to deliver the desired dish to someone’s home.
At Just Eat, the furthest delivery was a whopping 20 kilometers; it was a courier service from Kirchberg to the city of Bern. Foodnow even reports on food deliveries that took place from Bern to the Thun region.
Things get even more absurd with very short delivery routes. This is when customers have their food delivered from the restaurant that is right around the corner. Like that person from the city of Bern who must have had a particularly lazy day last year: The customer placed an order with Just Eat where the delivery distance from the restaurant to the front door was just 55 meters.
The gender difference
According to Just Eat, the majority of those ordering are men.
Photo: Enzo Lopardo
Are more women or men having food delivered to their homes? Just Eat’s statistics provide a clear answer: it’s men. The provider refers to the first names that occur most frequently in the orders. Male names would dominate.
“Michael, Simon, Daniel, Patrick and David are at the top,” writes the company. Only then does a first name, Andrea, which is usually female, follow in the ranking.
The most generous customer
Bernese are just average tippers.
Photo: Urs Jaudas
When it comes to tipping, the people of Bern are not particularly generous. According to Just Eat, tips were paid in 7 percent of all orders in the canton of Bern. This averaged 3.85 francs. That corresponds to the Swiss average. The canton of Zug is at the top with an average tip of 4.80 francs.
The Bern average would be even lower if there weren’t a few upward outliers. A particularly generous customer once gave a tip of 54.30 francs on Uber Eats – a Bern record!
The beer replenishment
If the beer runs out late at night, people are happy to order more.
Photo: Adrian Moser
Even if the focus is on food, Bernese people also like to have liquids delivered. “Orders often reach us late into the night, especially on weekends,” writes Foodnow. Replenishment of wine for house parties is not uncommon. It sounds similar at Just Eat. The provider reports “increased beer orders at five in the morning”.
The food that comes from the courierChristopher Albrecht is an editor in the Bern department and writes mainly regarding topics that affect Bern’s agglomeration. He studied translation in Winterthur and Brussels and graduated from the Swiss journalism school MAZ.More information@calbrecht_
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