Food delivery services offer vital assistance to thousands if not millions of people in the country and around the world.
Essentially food delivery services are an important support system for those that want help in ensuring they have well cooked, prepared meals delivered to their door.
The first food delivery services started during the Second World War, particularly throughout the Blitz where many homes were destroyed and large swathes of the population were left with no kitchens in which to cook their meals.
The idea was developed from the work of the Women's Volunteer Service who had previously delivered meals to servicemen; transferring the process to families that had lost their homes due to bombing raids.Local Food Delivery Services IowaFollowing the war the food delivery programmes developed by the Women's Volunteer Service were continued.
It is believed that the first use of the service occurred as early as 1947 in Hemel Hempstead.
At this stage, rather than the vans that are used today, the meals were delivered using old prams.