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This is the reason it will be very difficult for anything like the Sprig concept. Food delivery is insanely competitive and it's a race to the bottom to see who
by ams6110 9y ago
This is the reason it will be very difficult for anything like the Sprig concept. Food delivery is insanely competitive and it's a race to the bottom to see who can stay in business on the smallest margin. That's usually the place that operates out of a low-rent storefront and employs family members at below-minimum wage, not a glitzy well-funded commissary with acres of stainless steel and new equipment.
- theparanoid 9y agoAnd 100k/yr developers. I never understood the excitement around food delivery start-ups. There's nothing like broiling a nice steak with onions. It's like Americans have forgotten how to cook.
- Finnucane 9y agoRestaurants and other food-related businesses tend to have an extraordinarily high rate of failure. They're really hard to sustain long-term. So the fact that a food business failed is not remarkable; that's the usual, expected outcome.