With the citywide brickings, entrepreneurs are getting pretty crafty here in Beijing. The latest in clever food delivery ideas comes from a Beijing shop owner who devised an ingenious way of delivering goods to customers after her shop was bricked up over a year ago. Because she no longer has a front door, she built a slide from her kitchen window down to the street so she could easily get food to her customers.
“There used to be a door on this side of the wall, but now it's been turned into a wall and a window,” she said. “Customers have to walk around the building to come in as there are shrubs separating the shop and the pedestrian road.”
Located on the first floor of a residential building, the woman’s shop specializes in congee and liangpi. All customers have to do is place an order and wait outside on the street. Before too long the shop owner bags up the order, places it in a basket and slides it down a metal slide, which measures a couple meters long. She ties the basket to a red string to make sure there’s no spillage. Customers can pay easily via a QR code on the slide.
Word of the slide started circulating on social media earlier this week. Users have praised the idea saying it’s “amazing” and saying it’s “the country's fastest delivery service.”
This isn’t the first time people have come up with unconventional ways of delivering food to customers in China. A student at Henan University of Technology once tied together bedsheets to get food up and down from her sixth floor dorm. A student at the Communication University of China in Nanjing used a similar pulley system to pick up food delivery.
But given all the brickings in Beijing lately, we think it's safe to say we're going to be seeing a lot more slides around the city's hutongs.
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