It is one o’ clock in the morning. You have a paper due tomorrow, and you are hungry. The dining halls are closed and you don’t feel like you could stomach a heavy, greasy pizza. It is in situations like this that Jeff Rogacki, owner of Bite Me Cookies , hopes to step in. 

“We feed the hunger between dinner and breakfast,” Rogacki said.

Rogacki’s business is unique. Bite Me Cookies aims to be an alternative to the usual late-night delivery food by being a snack, not a meal. For a little less than it costs to order a pizza, students at N.C. State can order fresh cookies, delivered to their dorms or apartments , along with cold milk or a soda.  

Though this may sound like a college student’s dream, the creation of the company was just the evolution of Rogacki’s own love.

“I really love chocolate chip cookies and it’s really hard to find really good, chewy cookies,” Rogacki said. “So I looked up some old-fashioned recipes and changed them a little. I just started making them for friends and family and they would say things like ‘every time I walk by them, they say bite me.'”

When his friends and family started urging him to share them with a greater audience, Rogacki began doing some research. He found the heaviest purchaser of cookies to be 18 to 24-year-olds, so the natural decision was to target a college campus.

So far, Rogacki said Bite Me Cookies has been far more successful than he could have imagined. After opening Sept. 1, the company has relied only on handing out cards to students at events and word of mouth to spread the word, but every time he is on campus, Rogacki said he is overwhelmed by positive feedback from students.

“The N.C. State students are great people,” Rogacki said. “I’ll be delivering to a student and another student yells over ‘Your cookies are awesome!’ One girl told me ‘It’s like Mom showing up at your door — without the lecture.’ People love the cookies.”

It’s a sentiment shared by many students, including Andrew Nagler, a sophomore in biological sciences. 

“It’s an amazing idea,” Nagler said. “Cookies are way more delicious than pizza. I would order them again in a heartbeat.”

Nagler’s friend Rachel Poe, a freshman in engineering, split the bill with him when he ordered the cookies and was just as excited as him.

“My friend got them one time and they looked so good . I tried a piece of his brownie and it was delicious,” Poe said. “Then Andrew called me one day and wanted to order them, so we did. They were delicious, they weren’t very expensive and they were huge cookies.”

Part of the success of Bite Me Cookies is the novelty of the idea.

“It’s not every day you order cookies,” Poe said. “I have never in my life ordered cookies and had them delivered to me. You can do that. It’s a great idea and I wish I had thought of it.”

Rogacki said he hopes that his business will continue to grow.

“I’d like to open up a retail location,” Rogacki said. “Word of mouth is still the best advertisement. I’ve had six or seven deliveries to Meredith already and we haven’t even done any marketing over there.”

The company’s website is www.bitemecookiedelivery.com.