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My coworkers and I got a lot of good meals out of SpoonRocket, which would deliver to your home or office door in Oakland for $6, later $8, within minutes of pl
by geofft 7y ago
My coworkers and I got a lot of good meals out of SpoonRocket, which would deliver to your home or office door in Oakland for $6, later $8, within minutes of placing an order. Their claim was they were cutting costs by offering one choice of meal per day, so they could put drivers on the road even before people were ordering (and also use economies of scale in meal prep). The latter was true as far as it went - we eventually learned that gig drivers would just park in our parking lot at 11:45 and wait for orders. But that didn't help with pricing. They were actually just VC-subsidized, and we all knew they'd shut down eventually.
- maest 7y agoI'm using this service called MealPal. It's ~GBP 5 for a meal, as long as your preorder it the previous evening (or same day early morning). You can get meals that retail for GBP 8 using this service. So that's a 37% discount in an industry that is notorious for its tight margins. My first thought when I heard of it was "oh wow, better sign up before their VC money runs out"