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Some may wonder if airport mobile ordering and delivery is a pandemic fad or a trend. The answer will come quickly for anyone who’s spent an extended amount of time in airports. It’s only a matter of time before competitors start popping up.
What began as an idea in 2015 for its founder, who was tired of running through airports without any time to grab a meal or coffee, is now a growing in-airport mobile app food and retail delivery company.
At Your Gate offers a convenient and touch-free approach to ordering food, drinks, adult beverages, and merchandise from airport merchants through its app, with deliveries directly to departure gates, employee breakrooms, and on the planes for flight crews.
Valued at $40 million, At Your Gate has grown the most throughout the changing landscape of the pandemic that has been embracing mobile ordering and deliveries at major U.S. airports.
"What's nice about our business, is it's extremely scalable," said PJ Mastracchio, founder and CEO of At Your Gate.
For example, he delivered 30 mobile airport orders in an hour compared to two an hour for mobile ordering and delivery services on the streets.
[caption id="attachment_439076" align="alignleft" width="200"] At Your Gate's Founder and CEO PJ Mastracchio always pitches in with deliveries when needed. Photo credit: Robert Maxwell[/caption]
Currently, At Your Gate doesn't have any competitors offering airport mobile app deliveries, he said.
The need for social distancing and other pandemic requirements has created a ripe environment for airport mobile ordering apps and deliveries to become the next hot thing. But will they have a future post-pandemic?
According to Mastracchi
