When ordering food for delivery what is more important?

Some combination of the above. Value is more important than cost. I'll pay more for better food. Speediness is not necessary. Lack of tardiness is. I tend to develop a "favorite" at each of the places I get food from so selection is not very important. Quality is probably most important. If it's not food that I want to eat I won't get it... So, Quality, then Cost, then Speediness, then Selection.

Unless I know the food really sucks at a particular place, my hunger typically goes to the lowest bidder. Of course, there are times when you just have to have Chinese, and they're *never* the lowest bidder.

You forgot accuracy. There's nothing more frustrating than being really hungry and getting a big ol' hunk of meat when you're a veggie. Quality is still most important, though.

selection can be determined by choosing which place you're going to, as can quality. that leaves speed and cost. When I am hungry, I want my food twenty minutes ago.

Quality. I don't like to eat junk food. If I'm ordering out, it's because I don't want to cook. But I would rather cook than eat something awful.

Quality is the most important. Why bother ordering food if it's going to be nasty. Unfortunately, no one deliver to where I currently live. Our marina is in the middle of nowhere!!! (Actually it's in the South China Sea...)

I don't care how long it takes to get to me as long as it's good when it arrives. If that means I pay more, I won't order out as often.

Generally I only order pizza or other food from a pizza place. Also, generally from the same place, George's Pizza in Worcester, MA. I don't believe I have ordered for delivery anything else.

Although this works best as a "pick two" survey. I chose quality, but there's a limit as to how much I'm willing to spend on takeout so cost factors in. Speed is pretty irrelevant.

good food is good

A combination of value (good food is worth more than junk food to me) and having what I am in the mood for.

Plus, of course, willingness to deliver to me, which is rather rare, as I live in a "bad" neighborhood.

Quality is more important even than whether they deliver.

Quality is always important, so I choose that. The only food that gets delivered around here is pizza and we make our selection based on closeness of the restaturant (which means they get here faster) and the taste of the pizza (quality, right?).

Quality is by far the most important. If I want cheap or fast, I'll go the two blocks to Taco Bell. BTW, why doesn't Survey Central let you assign numbers to various choices? :)

toss up between quality and speed, choose speed in the end though

*** dink (weren't you a hero from Xanth novels?) - I do have "ranking-style" surveys on my list of things to add to Survey Central. It's not easy given that they can't very naturally be supported by CGI/forms (the interface can't naturally ensure a correctly formatted answer - it can only validate that you did a proper ranking after you submit) - still it's worth doing, I know I'd like to do some ranking surveys. Also, I want to add an option that would cause the view page (pages like this one) to sort answers by # of votes... (which would go hand in hand with ranking in my opinion).

it will depend on the kind of food and intent. Getting a pizza cause you have the Drunken Hungries means get it FAST. Getting food at 03h00 means lower your expectations of quality to what is open. [etc etc]

I'd go with anyone who would actually deliver here.

Quality (I'd rather not eat it in the first place if it's not yummy), then Reliability - they'd better damned well bring what I want. Damn Dining In. Damn them!

Lorax - heh, yeah you know I might actually order a lousy pizza if anyone would deliver to Meriden too.

What I'm in the mood for, then cost, quality, and speed.