Joggers in Central Park, New York can now order food via their iPhones, thanks to a new application called 'CityMint'.
With the new iPhone application called 'CityMint', joggers in Central Park, New York can now order food via their snazzy mobiles. And the new app comes with a GPS add-on, allowing the runners carrying the meals to locate hungry customers anywhere in the 843-acre park.
"The GPS thing is a little freaky - that people can track you down like that." But I like it. It's great they're using it for Central Park. It's so convenient," the New York Daily News quoted Annie Yano, 28, of the upper West Side as saying.
The CityMint app is free for download, and offers meals from seven restaurants near the park. The cost of delivery is free, too.
Customers can pay with credit cards or cash, with food available from noon-7 p.m. on weekends through Labor Day.
"We're hoping to maintain a 30-to-40-minute delivery time," said Tim Diamond, a CityMint project manager who worked as a runner.
The fledgling operation had five runners at the ready on day one.
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While CityMint actually launched a Web version in 2008, Central Park and the phone app are uncharted - and hopefully fertile - territory.
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Just in case there's a problem with the GPS, CityMint asks for a phone number to find its customers among the summer crowds.
CityMint's regular version offers New Yorkers options from 400 participating restaurants.
It's the brainchild of Hell's Kitchen resident Frank Kuo.
Source-ANI