CREDIT: DBEGINS
Feeling hungry? Dbegins delivers food from any vendor on campus straight to you.

Three Fanshawe students have created their own start up that delivers food from restaurants on campus directly to your classroom.

The website, called dbegins.com, has a simple sign up process. All you need to do is submit your name, information about whether you are a student, professor or other staff, your food order, phone number, email and your room number on campus and they will deliver your food order straight to you for no charge.

They will even deliver your groceries to you as long as you give them one days' notice.

Romik Vadhvana, a dental assistant student at Fanshawe, is the founder of the website along with Amol Pai and Aman Preet Singh. Pai is a dancer and the chief marketing officer while Singh is the developer and tech support.

As an international student from India, Vadhvana said he was denied a job with the International Student Work Experience Program (ISWEP) and decided to create his own job for himself.

“People are [collectively] waiting two to three hours per week waiting in line so I said okay, let's start something,” Vadhvana said.

With the help of their website they have already delivered 36 orders in only five days. Their goal is to reach 1,000 deliveries in the next few months.

The idea to name their start up dbegins came to them when they realized that as a team including a dental assistant, a dancer and a developer, all their titles started with the letter D. Pai said there was another reason for the “D factor”.

“D is a very nice symbol for a smiley,” said Vadhvana. “We want to spread smiles to our fellow mates.”

The company plans to expand in the future once demand for their service grows. Vadhvana said the service will be free for now, with the possibility of charging a small fee for heavy food order, but as it is currently run on a cash basis only they are hoping to make some money solely from tips.

“We want to deliver something, so the delivery and your day begins with a smile,” Pai said. “Instead of the quote ‘a stitch in time saves nine' just think ‘a stitch in line saves time'.”

“Skip the line, and get the delivery fast,” Vadhvana added.

Vadhvana said they are open to people who would like to support the start up from volunteers to online developers.

“Because we're a start up… it's challenging for us to convince people to believe in us, it's hard to make people aware of this service,” Pai said.

The delivery service is currently restricted to Fanshawe campus, but with the high goals they have set for themselves, an expansion into other markets may soon be a reality.

“Soon the smiles will spread across the city.”