There’s nothing like wanting food from your favorite restaurant on a Friday evening after a long day of work knowing you don’t want to go and pick it up. Guess what? There is a new franchise in town, OrderUp, that will deliver your favorite restaurant food to your doorstep with a click of your mouse.

“OrderUp is a marketplace where you can go to view restaurants’ full menus and have delivery options,” said Joshua Hepburn, owner of OrderUp. “Most people only know of one or two pizza places and maybe one or two Chinese places that deliver and that’s pretty much it.”

But there is so much more just waiting to be delivered to your door.

OrderUp is a national franchise that Hepburn decided to open after he got out of the military. He came across it in a magazine and decided to do research on it. Hepburn chose Fayetteville because his wife is a native of the city and it is a great opportunity to serve the military population and the local community.

“I instantly fell in love with the business and brought it to Fayetteville,” said Hepburn. “Every single week we are doing better than the last.”

The website started with 12 restaurants, now there are more than 20. Some of the restaurants include Hot Diggity Dog, II Brothers, Cupcake Gallery, New China King, Quizno’s and many others.

“More restaurants are getting on board and it is moving along,” said Hepburn. “The restaurants that I am currently working with love the service and it is really convenient for them.”

Now what sets OrderUp apart from the other competition?

“It is the marketing engine that we provide and the convenience of ordering at a one-stop shop,” said Hepburn. “The convenience for the restaurant is that we provide a huge marketing engine that restaurants would have to pay thousands of dollars for if they were trying to do it themselves.”

The restaurants are willing to work special promos exclusive only through OrderUp. For example, Hepburn is working with Twisters Pizza & Subs to offer a medium pepperoni pizza for just 99 cents.

How do you place an order? The process is an easy one:

• Go to www.orderup.com and put in your address.

• Then click the “find restaurants” button. The restaurants that will deliver to your address will appear.

• Place your order and it will arrive in 45 minutes.

“The benefit of our website is that people can go to it and browse as many as 20 restaurants and order delivery in the comfort of their home,” said Hepburn. “To work with the mom and pop restaurants that are over by the hospital, down Ramsey Street or Raeford Road that people don’t know about is a huge opportunity for the customer and the restaurants.”

Hepburn’s future plans include having more 40 participating restaurants by next year.

“We will continue to grow and bring new content and new opportunities for the user,” he said.

For more information about Orderup, visit www.orderup.com.

Photo: Joshua Hepburn, an Army veteran, wants to bring dinner to your front door.