Uber Technologies Inv. hopes to use drones in San Diego to deliver food as part of an innovative commercial test program approved by the federal government on Wednesday. 

Dara Khosrowshahi, the company's chief executive officer, described how deliveries could be expected in between five to 30 minutes depending on if they were done by humans or drones. 

'Push a button and get food on your doorstep,' he said, according to Yahoo Finance.

The executive was speaking to a crowd during an on-stage interview with Bloomberg at a Uber Elevate conference in Los Angeles when he said that Uber had become the largest food delivery business in the world. 

10 state, local and tribal governments along with companies like Alphabet Inc., FedEx Corp., Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc. and Uber were all selected by the U.S. Transportation Department to take part in commercial drone testing.