Case Study: Eat Here Saint Louis achieves rapid home-delivery expansion and scales 200–500 weekend deliveries with MyRouteOnline route planning

Food Distributor Expand Business with Route Planning

Eat Here Saint Louis, a regional food distributor to restaurants, faced a sudden loss of business when COVID-19 forced restaurants and farmers' markets to close in March 2020. To replace lost revenue and support local producers, the company launched a home delivery service in partnership with farmers' markets—scaling from about 20–30 weekday deliveries to 200–500 weekend stops and needing an efficient way to plan complex multi-stop routes.

In April 2020 Eat Here STL adopted MyRouteOnline for its affordability, easy data import and route efficiency, creating 5–7 routes (30–50 stops per driver) from Google Sheets and sending them to drivers via the MyRouteOnline app and Google Maps. While savings are not yet quantified, the route planner enabled rapid scaling, helped farmers recover lost income, and established a durable delivery service that will continue benefiting the company and the local economy after the pandemic.

Eat Here Saint Louis

Preston Walker

Owner