A student-run food delivery service started by two Harvard University students was shut down by the administration due to regulatory technicalities, Campus Reform reported.

The entrepreneurs behind InstaNomz, first-year students Akshar Bonu and Fanele Mashwama, posted a Facebook status on April 15, less than a month before the business' inception, stating that their startup has ceased operations indefinitely due to issues with the administration that could not be resolved.

InstaNomz delivered food from several popular restaurants in the area to the rooms of first-year students living in Elm and Ivy Yard dormitories. The two freshmen said that they were told that their service violated the school's policies for student business activity on campus. School officials were concerned the business would cause "excessive foot activity" and "overly commercial activity," Campus Reform reported.

"The Office of Student Life informed us that we either had to operate as an outside vendor, which we understood as stopping outside of the dorm or House, or through Harvard Student Agencies," Bonu and Mashwama told The Harvard Crimson, the Ivy League school's official newspaper.

The students said having to stand outside of a dormitory to deliver food as an outside vender would "incur greater time costs to their business-as a result, they decided to stop deliveries," The Harvard Crimson reported.

Although Harvard University "permits undergraduates to undertake modest levels of business activities on campus," it also reserves the right "to restrict or control student business use of its resources, facilities, academic product, copyrighted materials, and institutional data," Campus Reform reported, citing Harvard College Handbook for Students.

Bonu told Campus Reform they are not giving up on the project entirely, but plan to attempt to bring it to other schools.

"We've changed our business model to one where we franchise InstaNomz to entrepreneurs on other college campuses who want to start food delivery startups," Bonu said. "We give these entrepreneurs both tech and business support that will enable them to run a successful InstaNomz franchise on their campus."

According to The Harvard Crimson, InstaNomz was developed out of a final project for their introductory computer science course.

"We created InstaNomz because we saw a problem - our favorite restaurants did not deliver to dorms and there was a demand for this food late in the night when people were writing papers, finishing readings, and completing problem sets - and wanted to solve it," Bonu told Campus Reform.