--- description: A group of Australian in Melbourne have created "jafflechutes," grilled cheese sandwiches delivered by parachute. It's coming to New York. title: Parachuting Grilled Cheese: The Latest Delivery Food image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Parachuting Grilled Cheese: The Latest Delivery Food by [Kyle Chayka](/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 1, 2014 4:22 PM CUT by [Kyle Chayka](/author/kyle-chayka/) ## Kyle Chayka Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 1, 2014 4:22 PM CUT Getting Seamless is great—food arrives at your door with little more than the click of a button. But wouldn’t it be better if it actually floated slowly down to you with the help of a parachute? That’s the big idea behind [Jafflechutes](http://hypervocal.com/vids/2014/grilled-cheese-by-parachute/ "undefined"), a Melbourne pop-up restaurant that serves grilled cheeses by sending them down into an alleyway with the help of parachutes to hungry customers below. Jaffle is Australian slang for grilled cheese—it refers to a kind of [waffle maker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich%5Ftoaster "undefined") for toasted sandwiches—hence the portmanteau name. Patrons pay ahead of time with PayPal then stand in a predetermined spot to await their meal (it’s marked with an X). Arms outstretched, they receive their grilled cheese in a manner not unlike getting blessed by the Pope. As the video above shows, it’s a much more interactive way of getting takeout. Jafflechutes just completed a [crowd-funding campaign](http://www.pozible.com/project/179962/216995 "undefined") to bring their airborne food to Manhattan, so keep your eyes people. If something hits you on the head on the New York sidewalk, it might be a sandwich instead of, you know, a pigeon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/84268/parachuting-grilled-cheese-are-the-latest-delivery-food/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/84268/parachuting-grilled-cheese-are-the-latest-delivery-food/"},"headline":"Parachuting Grilled Cheese: The Latest Delivery Food","datePublished":"2014-05-01T16:22:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:18.348Z","description":"Look out below!","url":"https://time.com/84268/parachuting-grilled-cheese-are-the-latest-delivery-food/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Food & Drink","Food","restaurants"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kyle Chayka","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kyle-chayka/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/84268/parachuting-grilled-cheese-are-the-latest-delivery-food/","name":"Parachuting Grilled Cheese: The Latest Delivery Food"}}]}] ```