Business Spotlight:

Jeff Bordok and Jared Jones sought to fulfill a need when they started their all-night food delivery company — and it wasn’t just the cry of an empty stomach.

The longtime friends, who founded Midnight Muncheez in Costa Mesa this month, had grown concerned about the large number of drunk driving accidents reported around Newport-Mesa. Part of the problem, Bordok and Jones suspected, was that many drunken partygoers got hungry in the wee hours of the morning, and with most restaurants stopping delivery by midnight, they ended up cruising the streets looking for a bite.

If that’s the case, then Midnight Muncheez — which delivers food, drinks, candy, ice cream, and even toiletries and party games to homes and businesses — may prevent a number of fender-benders by stopping the need for a 1 a.m. run to the convenience store.

“We’re trying to keep them off the streets,” said Bordok, who worked in the nonprofit field for nearly a decade before launching his new enterprise.

Midnight Muncheez has a tiny staff of six — the owners, Chief Financial Officer Sam McDonald and a trio of drivers — and operates out of a cramped office on the Eastside. Bordok and Jones, though, already have plans to expand. The company stocks about 180 food and personal care items, and the owners hope to increase the number to 600 after polling customers about their midnight cravings. They also aim to widen their delivery area, which covers the Eastside and Balboa, to all of Newport-Mesa.

Call Midnight Muncheez any time between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m. — or 5 a.m. Thursday through Sunday — and a driver will show up on your doorstep within minutes with ice cream, a burrito, a cup of noodles, just a Coke or a stack of napkins. The company charges a $2.99 delivery fee, but there’s no minimum price for an order.

“If you order one ChapStick, we’ll deliver it to you,” said Jones, who hasn’t taken that particular request yet, but did recently venture into the night with Alka-Seltzer, Pepto-Bismol and toilet paper.