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Candyality Will Deliver On GrubHub For Serious Sweet Tooths

By Janet Rausa Fuller | August 17, 2015 5:49am
 Candyality now delivers via GrubHub.
Candyality now delivers via GrubHub.
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CHICAGO — Sweet tooths prone to Veruca Salt-level tantrums when their Swedish Fish supply runs low can now get their fix via GrubHub.

The candy shop Candyality signed on last week with the Chicago-based food-ordering service to deliver candy from its four stores in Lakeview, Andersonville and Downtown.

Gummies, licorice and similar sweets start at $3.25 for a quarter-pound and go up to $26 for 2 pounds. Chocolate-covered treats range from $3.75 per quarter-pound to $30 for 2 pounds. A la carte items include jumbo slabs of English toffee and pecan turtles for $7 a piece as well as themed candy gift bags.

The minimum order is $10. Delivery is $3 and takes about an hour (apologies to Veruca Salt, who wants it now).

The delivery menus differ slightly between locations. The Andersonville and Lakeview shops have more sour chewy candy, while Andersonville is the only one that offers fresh cheese and caramel popcorn.

Candyality owner Terese McDonald said her stores have filled multiple GrubHub orders daily since launching last week.

"It's people we know that aren't able to come into our stores," she said. "It's a whole untapped marketplace for us."

The only other sweet shops in the city that deliver through GrubHub are KC Chocolatier in Lincoln Park and Kilwin's in Hyde Park. The latter offers fudge, caramel apples and even ice cream sundaes.

McDonald said a recent conversation about online ordering habits with one of her young sales clerks prompted her to approach GrubHub.

"We were talking about working, being busy, and she started talking about how she orders everything online," McDonald said. "I typically order pizza. That's as far as I go. But the more I thought about it, the more obsessed I got with the idea."

She said she's targeting not only click-savvy millennials and busy consumers, but also event planners and corporations.

"A lot of employers buy lunch for their employees and they already have a GrubHub account, so they can do candy snack breaks, easy peasy," McDonald said.

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