Skip the rush, lock in your spot, and never miss kickoff.
You can order on Dishout right now and your jollof shows up the same day. That's the whole point. But there's a feature a lot of our customers haven't discovered yet, and once you use it, you don't go back: scheduled delivery. You pick the day, you pick the time, and your food or your groceries land at your door exactly when you need them. Sunday afternoon, holiday morning, halftime of the big match. Done.
Here's how it works, in four taps.
Step 1. Add what you want to your cart. A pot of banku and soup for Sunday, a full grocery run for the week, whatever. Tap Checkout.
Step 2. On the checkout screen, look at the top where it says Delivery. Next to it, you'll see Now. Tap Now and a dropdown opens.
Step 3. Select Schedule (Pick a date & time). You'll get a calendar — pick the day. Then pick the time slot that works for you. We run windows in 30-minute increments, so you can land your food at noon sharp or 12:30 or 4 PM. Whatever works.
Step 4. You'll see your scheduled delivery confirmed at the top of the checkout screen — the date and time in green. Hit Proceed to payment and you're done. Your food is locked in.
That's it. No phone calls, no "are you still open," no scrambling. The kitchen knows when to start cooking, the driver knows when to pick up, and you know exactly when to set the table.
So why use it?
Sundays. If you've ever tried to order African food at 2 PM on a Sunday, you already know the problem. Every diaspora family in the city is doing the same thing. The good kitchens are slammed. Your favorite jollof spot has a 90-minute wait. Your Caribbean place stops taking new orders. By the time the food shows up, the rice is sitting and everyone's hungry. Schedule it the night before, or even Sunday morning, and you skip the rush entirely. Your plate arrives at 1 PM the way you wanted.
Holidays. Independence Day, Eid, Christmas, Thanksgiving, every cultural holiday in between. Restaurants get hit hard. Drivers are stretched thin. The customers who scheduled days in advance get their food on time. The customers who waited until 5 PM to order are the ones calling the restaurant asking what's taking so long. Don't be the second person.
Big match days — and this summer, the World Cup. From June 11 to July 19, the World Cup is happening in our backyard. Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt, Cabo Verde, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa — most of the African continent will be playing on US soil, and the diaspora is going to be watching every single match. That means watch parties. That means twenty cousins in someone's living room. That means food orders going up across every African and Caribbean restaurant on this app at the exact same moment kickoff hits. If you wait until the pre-game show to order suya for fifteen people, you're not eating until the second half. Schedule your food the morning of the match — or the night before for early kickoffs — and your tray arrives before the anthem plays.
Grocery runs. Same logic, bigger basket. If you're cooking for a Sunday gathering, a watch party, or a holiday meal, schedule your grocery delivery for the day before so you have time to actually cook. If you forgot something, schedule a same-day window. Either way, you're not running to three stores looking for palm oil at the last minute.
Scheduled delivery is one of those features that sounds boring until you use it once. After that, you can't believe you ever ordered any other way. It's planning ahead made stupidly easy.
So next time you know what you want before you're ready to eat — Sunday lunch, a holiday spread, the Ghana vs. England group stage match on a Friday afternoon — open Dishout, fill your cart, and tap Schedule. Lock in your time. Eat on time.
A taste of home, exactly when you want it.
Schedule your next order on the African Dishout App — available on the App Store and Google Play. Same-day delivery in New York, Newark, Boston, Worcester, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Dallas, and Houston.
