Texas-based delivery app Favor released its second annual How Texans Order In report, showing which items customers ordered most in 2024. Some familiar favorites took the top rankings, while a few unique orders stood out.
Top food, drink and dip orders
Unsurprisingly, tacos topped the list of dishes Texans ordered most in 2024, with one taco being delivered every 19.94 seconds. Burgers were second on the list, followed by fries.
Orders of queso flooded the state this year. The amount of cheesy goodness Texans ordered this year was enough to fill 28,715 cowboy hats, according to Favor’s measurements. Salsa was second place and guacamole came in third.
Dr Pepper was the state’s most-ordered drink on the app, equivalent to 528,075 cans, followed by coffee at 50,032 pots and iced tea at 50,006 pitchers.
Texans getting through seasons, holidays
From celebrations to seasonal allergies, orders of certain items spiked depending on the day.
On New Year’s Day, after the fireworks went off and the champagne bottles were popped, customers knew just how to cure their next-day ailments.
At 8:45 a.m. in the Rio Grande Valley, one customer ordered 50 sausage egg and cheese biscuits. Another in Houston requested one medicine ball tea from Starbucks, two ginger shots and a weighted blanket at 11:07 a.m. to ward off the hangover. And in Austin, 18 bottles of Gatorade were ordered at 12:52 p.m.
Texans braving it through allergy season and the brutal cedar fever made their mark on the app’s annual data when allergy medicine orders increased by 120% during the first two weeks of February.
Valentine’s Day came with some last-minute orders — including a bouquet of roses at 6:57 p.m. in Houston and a heart-shaped box of chocolates at 9:05 p.m. in Dallas-Fort Worth. Whew, that was close.
In August, the state’s summer heat was no match for the soup lovers out there. On Aug. 22 in San Antonio, with a temperature of 108 degrees, the city’s peak in over 11 years, 86 people placed soup orders.
Standout delivery notes
The most popular request in the app’s delivery notes was silence. From parents of newborns to pet parents, 60,233 Texans asked their runners not to knock, either to avoid waking up the baby or riling up the dogs. Pet parents were the overwhelming majority of requests at 45,000, compared to 15,233 parents of little ones.
“DON’T KNOCK. My dogs will scream to the top of their lungs, rivaling a fighter jet engine, breaking the sound barrier,” one note read.
Unique requests
Some Favor runners went the extra mile to deliver to Texans in a pinch. That includes a customer in Dallas requesting one pair of Adidas tennis shoes delivered directly to the courts.
One tower crane operator took their lunch break in the sky, asking that their food be placed in a bucket sent down from the crane.
Favor saved the day when one concert-goer in Houston stuck in a long line needed a rotisserie chicken ASAP.
And when a farm outside of Austin needed a singular bale of hay for a pig’s bed, a Favor runner delivered.
“From big eats to special moments, 2024 was packed with some unforgettable deliveries. Thank you for letting us fuel your cravings and celebrations this year — we’re ready to deliver even more in 2025,” a statement from Favor read.
Read the full report here.