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> Driver needs to wait for the second meal to be prepared, That's the rub right there. If you're the winner in the market, can send info to a restaurant to ke

> Driver needs to wait for the second meal to be prepared, That's the rub right there. If you're the winner in the market, can send info to a restaurant to keep your food hot (or even hotter than normal) and can schedule it perfectly it will work. Once you spend a couple of billions into the infrastructure to make it happen, you can totally make a couple of hundred thousands worth of profit - 2020 Startups.

Talanes 6y ago
>send info to a restaurant to keep your food hot I'm not sure what exactly you think restaurants can do with that request. A small subset of places will have a heat lamp, but that still doesn't really preserve quality, just heat.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  "This food will be ready to collect at 17:35 and 45 seconds, and if it isn't, we wont be paying you". Restaurants would soon figure out how to use a couple of timers to get every order done on time. There could also be a deeper integration to ensure that, for example, there are no more than 3 orders worth of fries being cooked at once, or no more than 2 pickups per minute scheduled, to avoid overloading that part of the kitchen.
  - Talanes 6y ago
    Have you ever worked in a restaurant? What you're describing would be a massive undertaking to manage with just a single corporate partner, much less with a collection of independent and small chain restaurants.
    - WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
      Once you own the delivery space, you can crush restaurants into submission just like the darlings of the tech space have done: Apple, Google, Amazon.
      - leereeves 6y ago
        If you force restaurants to optimize everything for timing, you'll end up delivering food on par with McDonalds. And if it turns out customers are willing to pay restaurant prices for McDonalds quality delivery, then McDonalds themselves will start a delivery service to compete with you.
CaptainZapp 6y ago
Let's just say that such places could never count me in as a customer. The quality of the food delivered is dubious, to put it mildly, just by the very description of the process.

Talanes 6y ago

>send info to a restaurant to keep your food hot I'm not sure what exactly you think restaurants can do with that request. A small subset of places will have a heat lamp, but that still doesn't really preserve quality, just heat.

londons_explore 6y ago
"This food will be ready to collect at 17:35 and 45 seconds, and if it isn't, we wont be paying you". Restaurants would soon figure out how to use a couple of timers to get every order done on time. There could also be a deeper integration to ensure that, for example, there are no more than 3 orders worth of fries being cooked at once, or no more than 2 pickups per minute scheduled, to avoid overloading that part of the kitchen.
- Talanes 6y ago
  Have you ever worked in a restaurant? What you're describing would be a massive undertaking to manage with just a single corporate partner, much less with a collection of independent and small chain restaurants.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
    Once you own the delivery space, you can crush restaurants into submission just like the darlings of the tech space have done: Apple, Google, Amazon.
    - leereeves 6y ago
      If you force restaurants to optimize everything for timing, you'll end up delivering food on par with McDonalds. And if it turns out customers are willing to pay restaurant prices for McDonalds quality delivery, then McDonalds themselves will start a delivery service to compete with you.

CaptainZapp 6y ago

Let's just say that such places could never count me in as a customer. The quality of the food delivered is dubious, to put it mildly, just by the very description of the process.