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Startup idea: A service for collective food ordering for you and your neighbors. The night before you all vote on the restaurant to order from and the time, th

• toomuchtodo 6y ago
  An example of a service along these lines (although not the coop model you mention): https://www.wedeliverdouglascounty.com/ https://www.wedeliverdouglascounty.com/ ~100 restaurants teamed up, have salaried drivers, and an app. I've been told it works well by locals.
• Guest42 6y ago
  That would require practicality, the toughest thing to sell
• MattGaiser 6y ago
  DoorDash and UberEats should just have a discount for people who can piggy back their order off another.
  • smt88 6y ago
    UberEats already does
    • DenisM 6y ago
      I don't see how it helps with voting on a restaurant. Also it seems that the instigator is picking up the bill. I wouldn't want to bicker with my neighbors over them forgetting to pay. The workflow should be brainless, else people will start thinking and that's the end of it. Most importantly, I've never heard anyone using it, so it wasn't done right.
      • smt88 6y ago
        > I don't see how it helps with voting on a restaurant. I'm confused about what you mean here. > Also it seems that the instigator is picking up the bill. Correct. The model rewards people for piggybacking because it incentivizes them to choose a restaurant that might not have been their first choice. To avoid being the "instigator", you can just always choose to piggyback. It's always an option in my city. > I wouldn't want to bicker with my neighbors over them forgetting to pay. I also don't understand this, but perhaps you meant it in a context other than UberEats. > Most importantly, I've never heard anyone using it, so it wasn't done right. Many people won't realize they're using it. It shows up like a delivery discount: "Order in the next five minutes and pay $0 for delivery" or something like that. Everyone UberEats user I know uses it -- some exclusively. We never talk about it though, this is just what I've observed when watching them order.
  • koolba 6y ago
    The end state of this is going to be a bunch of self-driving cars selling individual pizza slices.
    • jpindar 6y ago
      Ice cream trucks but for pizza! Playing Italian music.
      • DenisM 6y ago
        Niiice. Can you fit an oven inside tho?
  • DenisM 6y ago
    Seems it was tried by Postmates, and it didn't go very well: https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/uber-eats-launches-group-ordering/568540/ https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/uber-eats-launches-group...
  • greenshackle2 6y ago
    UberEats already does. At least, in my market. "Free delivery in the next 5 minutes at these restaurants".
• spideymans 6y ago
  It's a CDN... but for food
  • splatcollision 6y ago
    You should go get some funding - your pitch is already written!
  • DenisM 6y ago
    Nicely done!
• brummm 6y ago
  This actually exists for pickups already in Canada, called Ritual.
• novia 6y ago
  https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-food-delivered-from-your-favorite-faraway-restaurant-1536516000 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-food-delivered-from-... too late
  • DenisM 6y ago
    It's a paywall. Can you give us the name of the delivery company?
    • novia 6y ago
      The parent article is also paywalled by the wsj, use the same technique you used to read that one. (incognito + google is your friend)
• josefresco 6y ago
  Sound like take-out catering.