Favor – an on-demand delivery app based in Austin, Texas – has released its 2025 “How Texas Orders In” report, offering a look at delivery preferences, order trends and memorable moments that defined how residents used its services throughout the year.
The annual report analyzes delivery data across more than 400 Texas cities and reveals both statewide preferences and notable regional differences in food and beverage orders. Tacos and queso remained at the top of Texans’ delivery lists for 2025, reinforcing their long-held popularity on the app. Coffee also emerged as the most-ordered drink of the year, surpassing iconic Texas soft drinks such as Dr Pepper.
According to Favor’s findings:
- Tacos and queso held their positions as Texans’ most-ordered dish and dip categories in 2025.
- Beverage preferences shifted, with coffee overtaking Dr Pepper as the top drink among users statewide.
- Order preferences showed distinct regional flavors, including a strong inclination for corn tortilla tacos over flour, sweet tea over unsweet tea, and bone-in wings over boneless wings – signaling enduring local taste patterns.
The “How Texas Orders In” report also highlighted Texans’ produce and ingredient interests, noting that tomatoes, avocados, limes and jalapeños were among the most-ordered items on the H-E-B Now-powered section of the platform — a reflection of how many customers used delivery not just for prepared meals but to source components for home cooking, including guacamole and salsas.
In addition to culinary trends, the report captured the human element of delivery with a look at Delivery Notes – personalized messages customers leave for Favor Runners (delivery drivers). Favorites included playful reminders like “Don’t knock,” along with more candid messages such as “Don’t judge the dead plants on my porch,” highlighting how Texans use the app as a way to share personality and humor.
The 2025 “How Texas Orders In” report provides one of the most comprehensive snapshots yet of state delivery behaviors, reinforcing both enduring tastes and unique local variations that help shape how Texans eat, drink and order in.
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