San Marcos’ College Delivery Is Now Texas ToGo, Adds Food Delivery Service To Kyle And Buda

Texas ToGo services 15 communities including Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Seguin and New Braunfels. The Kyle-Buda service area starts in North Buda and ends at Yarrington Road where the San Marcos area picks up.

By, Terra Rivers, Managing Editor

Kyle and Buda residents can now have food from their favorite restaurants delivered at home as of last Friday. Well, almost.

The food delivery service, Texas ToGo expanded into the Kyle-Buda area with its soft launch on Friday.

In 2015, Texas ToGo partnered and merged with College Delivery, a local San Marcos grown food delivery service which started in San Marcos in 2002, to expand College Delivery’s network with “the same great service.”

“Our real roots are Albert Garcia,” Ruston Hicks, founder of Texas ToGo, said. “He and some classmates I believe won a business school contest at Southwest Texas State University for a restaurant delivery concept. And they started Bobcat Delivery, which became College Delivery.”

As a Texas State University Alum, Hicks said he worked for Garcia and College Delivery while in school. In 2012, he started Texas ToGo in Midland, Texas. 

Texas ToGo services 15 communities including Kyle, Buda, San Marcos, Seguin and New Braunfels. The Kyle-Buda service area starts in North Buda and ends at Yarrington Road where the San Marcos area picks up.

Jason Sherman, Texas ToGo Area Manager, said the company is currently partnered with six restaurants in the Kyle-Buda area but expects to add more over the next more couple months.

Registration is free for restaurants, and Texas ToGo offers website services to its partners. The company has an app where customers can order delivery and earn reward points, which can be used for free deliveries or even those last-minute Christmas gifts.

But unlike some delivery services, customers can order online or call and talk to real person.

Hicks said the best way for customers to see their favorite restaurants on the app is to encourage the restaurants to sign-up. 

“Texas ToGo services the smaller, underserved markets of Texas,” Hicks said. “So, we aren’t in any of the big cities, and we really don’t plan to be.”

According to Hicks, the company’s delivery times range from 30 to 45 minutes depending on the current volume.

Texas ToGo allows customers to schedule deliveries out, so after a long day at work, dinner can be on the table on time without the need to cook

Sherman said the company has an awesome set of drivers.

“We really try to take care of our drivers,” Sherman said. “I know I personally sit down with every driver that we hire, go over any questions and give them some training. They are the lifeblood of Texas ToGo; without the drivers, of course, delivery wouldn’t be possible.”