I've often thought about that. Right now Grubhub and the like are oriented towards restaurant food: e.g. somewhat fancy, with lots of options, etc. Why not ju

I've often thought about that. Right now Grubhub and the like are oriented towards restaurant food: e.g. somewhat fancy, with lots of options, etc. Why not just cook industrial size portions of a few items and sell for cheap? You see this in India where they make massive pots of curry to feed thousands of people. The main obstacles seem to be delivery and people's desire for choice. You might be able to get the price of a fried rice down to $2-4 if you make it on industrial scale. But time customizing it (choice of meats, removing ingredients for allergies, providing extra sauce, etc) and getting it to the customer is more costly because it requires individualized service. Meal pal is currently trying to do something like this by partnering with restaurants to create on cheap dish per day. It works to some extent but the customer has to pick up the food and only gets on option per restaurant.