Final month Bok a Bok, a fried hen takeout and supply operation with 4 places, took the bizarre step of ditching DoorDash and as an alternative hiring its personal supply drivers, saying that that will permit it to supply higher customer support and in addition get out from beneath these brutally excessive supply app charges.
That transfer hasn’t paid instant dividends for the mini-chain — not less than, it didn’t do sufficient to avoid wasting its College District and White Heart places. On Sunday, Bok a Bok introduced on Instagram that these two outlets can be closing “efficient instantly.”
Presently the Capitol Hill and Kirkland Bok a Boks stay open, although co-owner Brian O’Connor doesn’t appear overly optimistic in regards to the enterprise’s future. “I simply don’t know what the long run holds for us,” he stated over textual content. “The restaurant panorama in Seattle is ever-changing as are the wants and needs of visitors. I hope we will keep busy and develop our supply program. We nonetheless have two places and we’ll preserve slingin tasty hen and biscuits for so long as we will.”
O’Connor, a former chef at Skillet and Roux, opened the unique Bok a Bok in White Heart in 2016 and steadily expanded all through the metro space. The enterprise went to a takeout-and-delivery-only walk-up window mannequin through the pandemic lockdown period. It was due to this fact hit arduous when DoorDash and Uber Eats added a $5 charge to all deliveries in Seattle in response to a Metropolis Council ordinance requiring all app firms to pay their supply employees extra.
At one level Bok a Bok introduced that it was going to cowl that $5 charge, then determined in July to show off DoorDash — which accounted for 65 % of its whole gross sales, in line with O’Connor — and as an alternative take care of clients immediately by means of the web site and over the telephone. Bok a Bok continues to be making an attempt to make that mannequin work. “We wanna ship an enormous thanks to those that believed in self-delivery and what we have been making an attempt to do,” the homeowners wrote on Instagram. “In case you love us and wanna preserve us open please go to Capitol Hill and Kirkland.”
