Do you hate waiting in lines for your food? I know I do.

Waiting for my Starbucks between classes is the absolute worst, especially if I have places to be (like always) or things to study (like always). Tapingo is my saving grace in college.

Tapingo is an on-demand delivery and online ordering app that surpasses any others available on a college campus. Sure, other delivery services are cool, but Tapingo’s actually affiliated with the restaurants as well as the University’s dining initiative.

It's also super easy to use.

For example, you could simply pull up the app on your phone as soon as you get out of your class on the other side of campus and get ready to order, and your food will be waiting for you when you get to your restaurant of choice.

You start by choosing the restaurant you want to order from; for example, Starbucks. Once you open it, it will show the estimated wait time for your order, in my experience, usually less than five minutes even at the craziest places at the busiest times of day!

Next, you can look through the categories and order your drink/food, specify any extra criteria with checkboxes, and then add any extra notes if you need to!

Then you’re able to select your payment method. A great thing about Tapingo is the ability to use your school’s meal plan "dollars." For example, at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, we use “FlexDine” which gives you $100 or more with the average meal plan, which you can use to spend on campus restaurants, most of which are Tapingo-qualified. You don’t even need to set up a credit/debit card up on the app, but you can if you want to!

Next, you simply walk over to the counter and grab your order, which should be waiting with a little orange tag with your name and order on it. It’s that easy.

Another fun option you could try if you happened to be standing in line with a friend would be to order with Tapingo in line and then race them to see who gets their order faster.

Tapingo is available on most of the major college campuses in the United States.

Being at a university that uses this app is awesome because sometimes Tapingo even adds special events with promo codes. For example, during Halloween week they had three promo codes that were Halloween inspired for things like free delivery or $2 off your purchase (which is awesome because that is like half a beverage at most coffee shops!)

I’m so grateful that Tapingo is a part of the Minnesota campus, so I never have to waste time ordering, standing in line, paying, and then waiting again for my order to be completed.

It’s a free app on the iOS and Android that is definitely going to save you lots of time (and maybe even some money with those promo codes!).

Tapingo on!