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The places that sell food on there have optimized to keep costs down ==> no physical locations except for a kitchen, no waiters, etc. They're literal food facto

The places that sell food on there have optimized to keep costs down ==> no physical locations except for a kitchen, no waiters, etc. They're literal food factories that optimize for food delivery capacity and probably only buy a few main ingredients in bulk and shorten down their menu selection to minimize costs even further. They are only restaurants in name. Also I've noticed that these kind of "restaurants" are also appearing in Western food delivery apps too where the price + delivery is actually cheaper than buying from a physical restaurant, I once experienced this buying shawarmas on a food delivery app.

reaperducer 8y ago
only buy a few main ingredients in bulk and shorten down their menu selection to minimize costs even further. Taco Bell and Pei Wei leap to mind. It's like they have a grid listing all their few ingredients and constantly try to figure out new ways to combine them into different products.
- acemarke 8y ago
  My favorite Onion article of all time is "Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined in Totally New Way". It's from 1998, as true today as it was then, and short enough I will quote it in its entirety: > With great fanfare Monday, Taco Bell unveiled the Grandito, an exciting new permutation of refried beans, ground beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and a corn tortilla. "You've never tasted Taco Bell's five ingredients combined quite like this," Taco Bell CEO Walter Berenyi said. "The revolutionary new Grandito, with its ground beef on top of the cheese but under the beans, is configured unlike anything you've ever eaten here at Taco Bell." The fast-food chain made waves earlier this year with its introduction of the Zestito, in which the beans are on top of the lettuce, and the Mexiwrap, in which the tortilla is slightly more oblong. http://www.theonion.com/article/taco-bells-five-ingredients-combined-in-totally-ne-3781 http://www.theonion.com/article/taco-bells-five-ingredients-...
- ABCLAW 8y ago
  This is commonly done in most industrial food service verticals. It will be called product innovation, reformulation or some other R&D adjacent term. Large food companies have the equivalent of a commodities trading desk built-in. The trigger to act commonly occurs when a key ingredient is hit with a supply related crunch. Avian flu just tripled the price of powdered egg whites? Guess we're using another binder for our ToasterOvenPastryTart. Another popular alternative is to stealthily decrease portion sizes.

reaperducer 8y ago

only buy a few main ingredients in bulk and shorten down their menu selection to minimize costs even further. Taco Bell and Pei Wei leap to mind. It's like they have a grid listing all their few ingredients and constantly try to figure out new ways to combine them into different products.

acemarke 8y ago
My favorite Onion article of all time is "Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined in Totally New Way". It's from 1998, as true today as it was then, and short enough I will quote it in its entirety: > With great fanfare Monday, Taco Bell unveiled the Grandito, an exciting new permutation of refried beans, ground beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and a corn tortilla. "You've never tasted Taco Bell's five ingredients combined quite like this," Taco Bell CEO Walter Berenyi said. "The revolutionary new Grandito, with its ground beef on top of the cheese but under the beans, is configured unlike anything you've ever eaten here at Taco Bell." The fast-food chain made waves earlier this year with its introduction of the Zestito, in which the beans are on top of the lettuce, and the Mexiwrap, in which the tortilla is slightly more oblong. http://www.theonion.com/article/taco-bells-five-ingredients-combined-in-totally-ne-3781 http://www.theonion.com/article/taco-bells-five-ingredients-...
ABCLAW 8y ago
This is commonly done in most industrial food service verticals. It will be called product innovation, reformulation or some other R&D adjacent term. Large food companies have the equivalent of a commodities trading desk built-in. The trigger to act commonly occurs when a key ingredient is hit with a supply related crunch. Avian flu just tripled the price of powdered egg whites? Guess we're using another binder for our ToasterOvenPastryTart. Another popular alternative is to stealthily decrease portion sizes.