March 16, 2020 - A look at the online delivery services in Split as you stay at home to self-isolate during the coronavirus crisis. 

2020 kicked off with the coronavirus, which has swept across the globe and recently exploded in Europe, which is currently the epicenter of the pandemic. 

As people of all ages are being asked to stay home and self-isolate to help combat the spread of the virus, the ‘Netflix & chill’ dream of millennials, couch potatoes, and anyone after a day at home come to fruition. 

This new age of social distancing, however, has its positives and negatives. While we get to lounge in our pajamas all day as we please, we are asked to minimize most, if not all, contact with the outside world, which makes grocery shopping and going out to dinner quite hard.

Fortunately, for those of us in Split, we’ve welcomed a boom of online delivery services in the last few years, which has made dining at home with your favorite restaurants more accessible than ever. 

As the corona crisis continues, keep these delivery options in mind.

Wolt

Wolt was welcomed in Split with open arms last year, and it’s not hard to see why. Promising delivery to your door on average of 30 minutes, Wolt operates using push bikes and vehicles and boasts dozens of Split’s most popular restaurants and fast food go-to's. 

They’re evening keeping you in mind during this scary time:

“In response to the spread of coronavirus, we added a "No-contact delivery" option to our Wolt app. If you choose so, our courier will leave your Wolt bag at your door. Please update the latest version of the app for iOS or Android. You can find this option in the check-out view (under the delivery address). If not, please contact our support! We are cooperating with our restaurants and couriers on additional steps to ensure the health and safety of us all.”

What Wolt restaurants deliver to you? Check out the website here. 

Glovo

Yet another newcomer to the scene is Glovo, which will not only deliver your favorite restaurants to your door, but will also do your grocery shopping, pick up McDonald’s, grab gifts for your friends and family or take care of any errand you need! 

You can check out Glovo here.

Pauza

One of the tried and true delivery services in Split and also the pioneer of KFC delivery in the Dalmatian capital is Pauza. Whether you’re after Chinese or pancakes, classic konoba fare or fast food treats, Pauza has you covered - and they're also offering contactless delivery!

"For secure transactions and contactless delivery orders, pay by card online and write in the note: "Please ring and leave the order outside the door."

You can check out the Pauza service here.

Dobar Tek

Finally, the first delivery service in Split is Dobar Tek, which was developed by a group of friends from Split University. From burgers and donuts to fresh smoothies, french fries and wok, Dobar Tek does it all. And yes, you can choose the contactless delivery option with online payment for orders.

You can check out Dobar Tek here.

Follow the latest coronavirus updates on the dedicated TCN section. 

After Wolt finally arrived in Split, so did Glovo...

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes on the 30th of September, 2019, the main delivery service from the popular Glovo is now available in the City of Split, as has been learned from the company's headquarters in Zagreb.

In a mere six months, this delivery service has become very popular in the capital, where thousands of residents order food through Glovo, and in addition, the service performs a wide variety of micro-deliveries, from items from the store and the pharmacy to forgotten keys or simple package deliveries.

Teo Širola, General Manager for Glovo Croatia, explained that they have about 500 more or less permanent employees for delivery in Zagreb, while in Split, the estimate is that they will need 200 people or so when the business develops and starts gaining the same level of popularity it has in Zagreb.

"As most of our contractors do this job as a job on the side, the numbers and the structure fluctuates alongside the schoo/academic year. Many of our workers are students who can't work during their exam periods, but we manage to cover all workforce requirements because we don't depend on just a single group of workers,'' Teo explained.

Teo adds that they plan to expand the number of employees delivering for Glovo in Zagreb, where their oldest supplier is 72 years old, and in addition, after Split, they plan to expand and become present in all major cities in Croatia by the end of the year.

Glovo's arrival to Split was initially planned for mid-September, but as Širola explains, due to optimisation of the number of suppliers, they decided to postpone their entrance by around ten days.

"In record time, Glovo will ''create'' fresh croissants or juices, deliver urgently needed business documentation, cycle through the city to deliver a bouquet of flowers for an anniversary, birthday, or reconciliation to the door of loved ones.

There are definitely more serious situations, too, such as the delivery of medicines we can't do without or ''crisis'' situations like celebrations when all the drinks and food are gone, that goes for anything, even when the condoms are gone,'' they explain from Glovo with a smile. The popular deliver platform that has more than three million users worldwide today.

It has more than 10,000 partners globally and a network of some 30,000. Glovo was launched in Barcelona, Spain back in 2015 and is present in more than 100 cities in 22 countries today.

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If you've spent any time in the Croatian capital of Zagreb over the last year or so, you'll likely have noticed a growing abundance of people riding around on bicycles with yellow bags on their backs. The now very popular Glovo delivery service, which delivers everything from food to medical supplies and... well... anything and everything else, began operating in Zagreb not so long ago.

Glovo is otherwise a Spanish startup founded back in 2015 in Barcelona. Its mobile app allows users to make purchases, arrange pick ups and deliveries, with food delivery being naturally among the most popular reasons to use the service.

The delivery service soared in popularity when it came to Zagreb, offering employment as well as ease of access to typically very quick delivery services, and in an environmentally friendly way, by bike, on top of all that. McDonald's restaurants in three city locations recently decided to use the service to deliver their food to customers, and the move of Glovo being the one to finally bring the old desire for McDonald's to do home deliveries has of course proven successful.

Now that Glovo has its claws well and truly into the Croatian capital, it wants to expand to yet another Croatian city, the second largest - Split.

As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes on the 13th of September, 2019, Teo Širola, General Manager for Glovo Croatia pointed out that in Zagreb they were convinced that Glovo's entry had been a complete and utter transformation of the fast delivery domain in the Republic of Croatia.

As such, Glovo is taking to Dalmatia and their main delivery services will be available in Split as of this coming Monday, as was found out from the headquarters of the company in Zagreb. As stated, in just six months, this service has become very popular in Zagreb, where thousands of citizens order food through Glovo, and allow the service to perform a variety of micro-deliveries, from food from the store, medication from the pharmacy, to forgotten keys or the delivery of other packages.

Teo Širola stated that after Glovo's experience in over a hundred cities in twenty countries and across three continents, the company is now secure and is ready for Split.

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