What We Do

Your Kitchen Prepares It. HDS Delivers It.

Houston Delivery Services is a scheduled catering delivery and last-mile logistics provider for the greater Houston area. Your restaurant, caterer or business prepares the order — we handle the pickup, the transport and the handoff, on a schedule you set in advance.

Professional Drivers

Drivers who own their own thermal equipment and are trained in careful catering handling.

Careful Handling

Orders picked up, transported, and delivered with temperature integrity in mind.

Wide Coverage

Serving Houston and its surrounding cities across the greater Houston area.

No Commissions

Transparent flat-rate pricing with no per-order commission fees, ever.

What We Do

A Delivery Company, Not a Food Company

Houston Delivery Services handles the last mile of a catering or large food order — the part between a kitchen finishing the work and that order reaching the table it was made for. We do not prepare food, publish menus, or take a cut of what a restaurant charges. The order, the recipe and the customer relationship stay with the business that made it.

What we provide is everything after the order is ready: a driver who arrives at the agreed time, professional thermal equipment built for trays and multi-box orders, transportation across the Houston metro, and a delivery that ends with a person, not a doorstep drop.

The split

Your business

Prepares the order, sets the menu and price, and keeps the customer relationship.

HDS

Picks up, transports and delivers the order, on the schedule you set.

What We Deliver

Built Around Scheduled Catering Orders

Every delivery HDS moves is a prepared food order large enough to need scheduling and careful handling — not a single takeout bag.

Office & Corporate Catering

Team lunches, client meetings and company events where the food has to land before the meeting starts.

Private Events & Celebrations

Showers, receptions, milestone birthdays and family gatherings hosted at a home or a rented venue.

Restaurant Catering Orders

The catering side of a restaurant's own business — the tray order the dining room can produce but the staff can't drive out.

Large Prepared-Food Orders

Trays, chafing dishes and multi-box orders too large for a single car trip.

Ongoing Business Catering

Businesses with regular catering needs, booking each delivery individually as the order comes up.

Multi-Location Catering Programs

Organisations coordinating catering delivery across more than one site under a single account.

Who We Serve

Three Ways to Work With HDS

Every prospective client fits one of three models, depending on whether you're ordering for yourself, running a food business, or operating at scale across more than one location.

For individuals & large personal orders

Consumer Direct

For individuals ordering catering or large food orders from restaurants that don't offer their own delivery service.

  • Perfect for parties, offices, and family gatherings
  • Pickup from any restaurant in our coverage area
  • Careful handling and on-time arrival

For restaurants, caterers & food businesses

Small Business

For restaurants, caterers, bakeries, ghost kitchens, and food businesses that need reliable catering delivery without maintaining their own fleet.

  • Scheduled catering delivery, not a marketplace listing
  • White-label deliveries that protect your brand
  • Flat-rate pricing with no commissions

For restaurant groups & high-volume programs

Enterprise

For restaurant groups, high-volume catering operations, and companies that need customized delivery programs, negotiated pricing, and scalable logistics.

  • Account-level pricing where it applies
  • Negotiated pricing and consolidated billing
  • High-volume and large-event catering delivery programs

How It Works

From Kitchen to Destination

The same process whether the order is a family gathering or a corporate catering programme.

  1. Schedule the delivery

    Tell us the pickup restaurant or business, the destination, and when the order needs to be ready and arrive.

  2. We confirm the details

    Addresses, timing and the order are confirmed before the day of delivery — no surprises on either end.

  3. A driver arrives for pickup

    At the scheduled time, the driver collects and verifies the order against the booking.

  4. The order travels in thermal transport

    Professional equipment keeps a catering order intact and at temperature across the metro.

  5. Delivery is completed and confirmed

    The order is handed over in person at its destination, and the delivery is confirmed once complete.

  6. Status is available throughout

    Order status is available from pickup through completion, not just at the end.

Why Businesses Use HDS

Delivery Capacity Without Building a Fleet

Outsource the last mile

Scheduled catering delivery becomes something you book, not something you build in-house.

Keep staff on the job

Nobody has to leave the kitchen, the line or the front desk to make a delivery run.

Take on more than you can drive yourself

Say yes to catering orders beyond what your own team could physically deliver.

One flat-rate model

A base fee by order value plus a per-mile charge only past 10 miles — no commission on the food, ever.

A real business account

Locations, team access and order history live in one place instead of a shared inbox or a driver’s phone.

Billing that can scale with you

Deliveries can be consolidated into billing cycles instead of arriving as separate, unrelated charges.

Choosing the Right Fit

Compare the Three Models

Not a pricing comparison — a guide to which model matches how your organisation actually operates.

Comparison of Consumer Direct, Small Business and Enterprise service models
Consumer DirectSmall BusinessEnterprise
Best forIndividuals & one-off ordersIndependent restaurants & caterersMulti-location & high-volume operations
How you bookSelf-service guest checkout onlineSelf-serve through the business portalEach location books through the portal
Account neededNo account requiredA business account (self-serve registration)A business account with multiple locations (self-serve registration)
PricingFlat-rate, priced online before you payFlat-rate per deliveryFlat-rate, with account-level pricing where it applies
BillingPaid by card at checkoutPaid per delivery, booked as neededCan be consolidated into billing cycles
More detailsView Consumer Direct →View Small Business →View Enterprise →

Ready to Schedule a Delivery?

Tell us what you're moving and where it needs to go — we'll take it from there.