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If I were to start a company right now, it would be a restaurant. Not joking there. The whole industry is begging to shaken up. People are always going to need
by baron816 6y ago
If I were to start a company right now, it would be a restaurant.
Not joking there. The whole industry is begging to shaken up. People are always going to need to eat, but I'd argue that the avenues they have to get food on the table are tired and inefficient.
You have grocery stores, which have hardly changed since their "modern" incarnation over a century ago. Think of all of the inefficients around grocery stores--you have to travel there, wait in a bunch of different lines, pick out everything you need yourself, travel home, put a bunch of what you bought into a big, cold box, and then when you're finally ready to have a meal, you have to know how to cook everything yourself, and deal with the pain of cleaning up the mess you made doing so.
Food delivery seems like it should be more efficient--you don't have to waste time by going to buy ingredients and cooking food, but it's horribly expensive. That's because there's a lot of middle men in there--the delivery guy, the cook, the restaurant manager, the restaurant owner, the coders buying the app you ordered on, the marketeers who you learned about the app in the first place. All those people need to take a cut of cost of putting food into your belly.
Meal kits were supposed to be a middle point, but they've all pretty much failed, unable to bring the cost down much further than restaurant delivery. And people really just don't want to cook and clean up.
Fast, good, cheap. I think you can get all three if you focus on finding efficiencies.
1) Only do drive through or walk by pick up. People can pick up food on the way home from work.
2) Order ahead on an app. Maybe days in advance. That way, food is ready at a specified time and can be handed off as soon as the custom drives/walks up. And restaurants will know the exact amount of ingredients they need and don't need to stock extra.
3) Have a rotating menu of items that people could eat everyday. All of you working at Silicon Valley tech companies probably love your catering service, since you're getting different, quality options everyday. It's tough to living off a limited selection of unhealthy delivery options.
- bobthepanda 6y ago1 basically describes a food truck in the US, a deli or hot dog cart in NY, or hawkers in Asia; low footprint, low startup cost. The problem that is endemic, is that most retail spaces are far too large for an operation like that, and you can't just ask your landlord to only give you 20% of the space they're trying to rent. And in most of the US street carts are illegal, and food truck permitting can be a PITA depending on the jurisdiction.