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What food delivery needs is someone to open big neighborhood commercial kitchens and pump out delicious, healthy, locally sourced food that is reasonably priced

What food delivery needs is someone to open big neighborhood commercial kitchens and pump out delicious, healthy, locally sourced food that is reasonably priced and maybe vertically integrated w/ delivery to eat some of the margin currently taken by uber/doordash/drivers. The Soylent founder had this idea of 'deprecating kitchens' and while I'm not a huge fan of soylent I really liked the idea. We really don't all need kitchens - it's a huge waste of space and everyone cooking for themselves generates a lot inefficiency and food waste. It makes a lot of sense to get your food from local communal kitchens - which is what much of the world does - but there also needs to be a bit of a culture shift around 'food as religion'. It's become a source of virtue signaling and everyone has such specialized food requirements it makes it difficult to economically scale. Right now food delivery is a luxury product but I'm not sure has to be.

eric_h 9y ago
> What food delivery needs is someone to open big neighborhood commercial kitchens and pump out delicious, healthy, locally sourced food that is reasonably priced and maybe vertically integrated w/ delivery to eat some of the margin currently taken by uber/doordash/drivers. Maple tried this in New York City. They had delicious, healthy, locally sourced food and more or less replaced my lunch orders while at work (they were not available in my outer borough). They couldn't hack it, though - the margins weren't high enough and they ended up selling to some UK company and dismantling their New York operation.
marcell 9y ago
Munchery tried this but, at least IMO, the food quality was not great. They had to use a lot of salt and preservatives to make the food hold and transport from their central kitchen. Also they did a lot of things to improve efficiency and cut costs which made the food taste unnatural...

eric_h 9y ago

> What food delivery needs is someone to open big neighborhood commercial kitchens and pump out delicious, healthy, locally sourced food that is reasonably priced and maybe vertically integrated w/ delivery to eat some of the margin currently taken by uber/doordash/drivers. Maple tried this in New York City. They had delicious, healthy, locally sourced food and more or less replaced my lunch orders while at work (they were not available in my outer borough). They couldn't hack it, though - the margins weren't high enough and they ended up selling to some UK company and dismantling their New York operation.

marcell 9y ago

Munchery tried this but, at least IMO, the food quality was not great. They had to use a lot of salt and preservatives to make the food hold and transport from their central kitchen. Also they did a lot of things to improve efficiency and cut costs which made the food taste unnatural...