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By Chris Richards

Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, May 6, 2007; Page M05

DC Snacks

Matt Mandell talks fast and delivers faster. The self-described “bossman-slash-toilet-cleaner” founded College Snacks in 2003 as a student at George Washington University, pedaling late-night munchies across the Foggy Bottom campus. The idea took off, with midnight-snack-happy students clicking for candy bars and pints of ice cream into the wee hours.

Fast-forward to 2007: Mandell’s rebranded DC Snacks delivers hundreds of orders to downtown District residents every night, offering energy drinks, cigarettes, cereal, condoms, vegan cookies and . . . well, what else do you want?

“We’re incredibly customer focused,” says Mandell, 25, who bases his stock almost entirely on customer suggestions.

So log on to the DC Snacks Web site and place your order. It opens for business every night at 8 p.m. and closes shop at 2 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday and at 4 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. The site has a map of its delivery area (roughly from Georgetown to Verizon Center, Adams Morgan to the Ellipse), and the company promises you’ll get the goods in less than 35 minutes. There’s a $1.50 delivery charge for orders under $10 and no charge if you spend more.

202-333-3278, http://www.dcsnacks.com/.

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