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For people who might be like me and not know what Munchery is: https://munchery.com/ https://munchery.com/ Curiously, no mention of shutting down on their site

For people who might be like me and not know what Munchery is: https://munchery.com/ https://munchery.com/ Curiously, no mention of shutting down on their site that I could see.

kposehn 8y ago
Yeah, this was the weird part. I couldn’t find any mention, just this.
- moonka 8y ago
  It looks like maybe they are pivoting to a blue apron style boxed meal delivery? Before they would deliver premade food (like restaurant delivery). You could order from a different menu each day as you wanted it. I used it a few times in the beginning. Slowly portions became smaller and more expensive, and the menu became very repetitive so I stopped using them in favor of restaurant delivery. I actually didn't realize they stopped doing business in Seattle last May until I saw this announcement and started looking around.
  - skinnymuch 8y ago
    Is that what you are seeing on your end? A pivot to a Blue Apron like meal kit? For me it seems to be a prepped food delivery service still. Blue Apron is flailing like crazy - down 80% or so since IPO less than two years ago. And the IPO itself was double digit percentage lower than it was supposed to be in the first place. Can’t imagine how you would jump into the meal kit niche these days.
    - moonka 8y ago
      >Is that what you are seeing on your end? A pivot to a Blue Apron like meal kit? For me it seems to be a prepped food delivery service still. Interesting, for me it's showing "The Plaid Box", a weekly subscription box.
      - skinnymuch 8y ago
        Ah interesting. Geo location or a/b testing I guess. Or they just haven’t fully rolled things out.
ACow_Adonis 8y ago
I read their website and I'm still concerned i don't get it. (or maybe that's why they're shutting down). So they deliver you the food from their menu? So its just a professional food business with delivery but without the restaurant/dine-in option? So presumably their competition is actual professional restaurants and they're just in the professional food business? I'm still struggling to understand how this is different from just ordering food delivered from any other food business? The fact that they say...presumably with a straight face...that you reheat their meals suggests to me that they must be pitching to sacrifice quality for convenience, but they seem to want to believe they're upmarket... Forgive me, it just doesn't compute?
- x0x0 8y ago
  I've ordered over 200 times. Munchery is pretty good food, with better variety than sf peninsula restaurants, and definitely much healthier, delivered cold to your house. The value is it's waiting when you get home. You reheat it and have a good (sometimes great!) meal in 5 minutes. As for local restaurants, there's not great delivery options here, particularly if you don't want pizza or sandwiches.

For people who might be like me and not know what Munchery is: https://munchery.com/ https://munchery.com/ Curiously, no mention of shutting down on their site that I could see.

kposehn 8y ago

Yeah, this was the weird part. I couldn’t find any mention, just this.

moonka 8y ago
It looks like maybe they are pivoting to a blue apron style boxed meal delivery? Before they would deliver premade food (like restaurant delivery). You could order from a different menu each day as you wanted it. I used it a few times in the beginning. Slowly portions became smaller and more expensive, and the menu became very repetitive so I stopped using them in favor of restaurant delivery. I actually didn't realize they stopped doing business in Seattle last May until I saw this announcement and started looking around.
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  Is that what you are seeing on your end? A pivot to a Blue Apron like meal kit? For me it seems to be a prepped food delivery service still. Blue Apron is flailing like crazy - down 80% or so since IPO less than two years ago. And the IPO itself was double digit percentage lower than it was supposed to be in the first place. Can’t imagine how you would jump into the meal kit niche these days.
  - moonka 8y ago
    >Is that what you are seeing on your end? A pivot to a Blue Apron like meal kit? For me it seems to be a prepped food delivery service still. Interesting, for me it's showing "The Plaid Box", a weekly subscription box.
    - skinnymuch 8y ago
      Ah interesting. Geo location or a/b testing I guess. Or they just haven’t fully rolled things out.

ACow_Adonis 8y ago

I read their website and I'm still concerned i don't get it. (or maybe that's why they're shutting down). So they deliver you the food from their menu? So its just a professional food business with delivery but without the restaurant/dine-in option? So presumably their competition is actual professional restaurants and they're just in the professional food business? I'm still struggling to understand how this is different from just ordering food delivered from any other food business? The fact that they say...presumably with a straight face...that you reheat their meals suggests to me that they must be pitching to sacrifice quality for convenience, but they seem to want to believe they're upmarket... Forgive me, it just doesn't compute?

x0x0 8y ago
I've ordered over 200 times. Munchery is pretty good food, with better variety than sf peninsula restaurants, and definitely much healthier, delivered cold to your house. The value is it's waiting when you get home. You reheat it and have a good (sometimes great!) meal in 5 minutes. As for local restaurants, there's not great delivery options here, particularly if you don't want pizza or sandwiches.