AS PRECIOUS time eats into consumers' busy days, food delivery services are on the up and offering more than the perennial favourites pizza and burgers.

A Straits Times check with food delivery companies and eateries that deliver revealed that demand has at least tripled in the past year alone.

Those ordering are mostly young families with children and young working couples who spend $40 to $100 a pop.

Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times' Home section.