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There seems to be an obvious opportunity for upscale takeout food delivery here. Much easier to split a bill than cooking chores.

by mrec 7y ago

kcolford 7y ago
I'd even say aggregate the food costs by offering one big meal for the group (instead of individual meals like a restaurant). As long as you can select by dietary restrictions it would work for most people.
leetcrew 7y ago
isn't this called "catering"? I know some wealthy people who will often have catered food delivered (or prepared on premises) if they're having more than a couple people over and don't feel like cooking. this is also what my office does when they give us free lunch. I think the economics work out in a way where the per-head cost is pretty bad for 10-20 people, but reasonable for ~100 or more.
- mrec 7y ago
  I thought catering involved things like waiters or at least servers. Seems excessive for a dinner party.
  - leetcrew 7y ago
    I think there are different tiers of service that are all called catering. when we get "catered" lunch at our office, they usually just put out a buffet of prepared food and we line up and take what we want. the catering staff will replace trays of food when they're empty and occasionally take your plate if you're finished eating, but that's about it. no idea what it costs per head. no matter how you slice it, having other people prepare good food (ie, not pizza and wings) for you is relatively expensive. if you expect the food to come to you, it either has to be limited to dishes that travel well and don't suffer from sitting over heat for an hour, or you have to pay even more for people to cook it on location.
  - paggle 7y ago
    There are different tiers. Boston Market will cater which basically means putting their chicken and sides into 10-person party trays rather than individual meals. It's a good way to feed a very low budget wedding.
  - dboreham 7y ago
    There are serverless caterers.
shantly 7y ago
Tons of restaurants, chains and local, will give you big take-out versions of several of their dishes at a lower per-serving price than they'd normally be. Same thing a company might do to cater lunch for a largish team or smallish business unit. The smart ones will throw in a freebee or two just to make you feel good and want to place a big-ass order with them again in the future. Usually they just need to know a day in advance or something. Pick it up, put it on the table, plates and silverware next to the tubs o' food. Done. Get a shortlist of places your social circle'd like that aren't too far away and call them, probably a few of them are happy to do that (they're a business, after all, and you're offering to give them money for The Thing They Do).

There seems to be an obvious opportunity for upscale takeout food delivery here. Much easier to split a bill than cooking chores.

by mrec 7y ago

There seems to be an obvious opportunity for upscale takeout food delivery here. Much easier to split a bill than cooking chores.

kcolford 7y ago

I'd even say aggregate the food costs by offering one big meal for the group (instead of individual meals like a restaurant). As long as you can select by dietary restrictions it would work for most people.

leetcrew 7y ago

isn't this called "catering"? I know some wealthy people who will often have catered food delivered (or prepared on premises) if they're having more than a couple people over and don't feel like cooking. this is also what my office does when they give us free lunch. I think the economics work out in a way where the per-head cost is pretty bad for 10-20 people, but reasonable for ~100 or more.

mrec 7y ago
I thought catering involved things like waiters or at least servers. Seems excessive for a dinner party.
- leetcrew 7y ago
  I think there are different tiers of service that are all called catering. when we get "catered" lunch at our office, they usually just put out a buffet of prepared food and we line up and take what we want. the catering staff will replace trays of food when they're empty and occasionally take your plate if you're finished eating, but that's about it. no idea what it costs per head. no matter how you slice it, having other people prepare good food (ie, not pizza and wings) for you is relatively expensive. if you expect the food to come to you, it either has to be limited to dishes that travel well and don't suffer from sitting over heat for an hour, or you have to pay even more for people to cook it on location.
- paggle 7y ago
  There are different tiers. Boston Market will cater which basically means putting their chicken and sides into 10-person party trays rather than individual meals. It's a good way to feed a very low budget wedding.
- dboreham 7y ago
  There are serverless caterers.

shantly 7y ago

Tons of restaurants, chains and local, will give you big take-out versions of several of their dishes at a lower per-serving price than they'd normally be. Same thing a company might do to cater lunch for a largish team or smallish business unit. The smart ones will throw in a freebee or two just to make you feel good and want to place a big-ass order with them again in the future. Usually they just need to know a day in advance or something. Pick it up, put it on the table, plates and silverware next to the tubs o' food. Done. Get a shortlist of places your social circle'd like that aren't too far away and call them, probably a few of them are happy to do that (they're a business, after all, and you're offering to give them money for The Thing They Do).