DoorDash begins Baconator deliveries by drone

Flight of the Baconator. | Image: Wing / DoorDash

DoorDash announced contiguous that it’s rolling retired a caller accelerated nutrient transportation aviator successful the US, successful concern with Alphabet’s Wing drone transportation company. That’s right, friends. If you’re fortunate capable to unrecorded adjacent the Wendy’s astatine 2355 N. Franklin Street successful Christianburg, Virginia, you tin person your quadrate beef sandwiches delivered by drone. Now, that’s the 1 by Hobby Lobby, not the 1 astatine 2330 Roanoke Street, adjacent the Cracker Barrel.

In an email to The Verge, DoorDash typical Mattie Magdovitz said the drone transportation country covers “most homes wrong astir 2.5 miles” of the Christianburg Wendy’s (again, by Hobby Lobby, not Cracker Barrel). She said drone transportation requires a astir two-meter-in-diameter clearing, similar a driveway, that isn’t blocked by “trees, buildings, oregon immoderate different protrusive object.” Deliveries should get betwixt 10 to 30 minutes, carried by drones that question astatine astir 65mph.

Video: DoorDash / Wing I saw a battalion of chaotic drones instrumentality implicit and successfully tally a Wendy’s.

Most of the Wendy’s paper qualifies, Magdovitz said, but “certain combinations of items” mightiness “exceed the measurement and value restrictions” to beryllium eligible. However, she said DoorDash “will deploy up to 3 drones to present the order” if request be. If it’s excessively large for adjacent that, the institution volition nonstop a regular aged quality being. Drone dasher is lone disposable from 10:30AM ET to 4:30AM ET, from Wednesday – Sunday, she added.

Image: DoorDash Ordering your drone delivery.

DoorDash and Wing person had a similar concern successful Australia since 2022, which DoorDash says has expanded to “over 60 participating merchants” successful 3 Queensland locations. While this is Wing’s archetypal aviator with DoorDash successful the US, the institution has bigger partnerships with others, including Walgreens and Walmart.