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drivers bringing restaurant food to individual houses doesn't really seem like something that scale helps. More people using the service requires more drivers.
by gmadsen 6y ago
drivers bringing restaurant food to individual houses doesn't really seem like something that scale helps. More people using the service requires more drivers.
- empath75 6y agoIt could scale if there's enough people ordering food from the same geographic location to the same geographic location at around the same time. Imagine a bunch of ghost kitchens next to each other in an industrial park, offering discounts to certain neighborhoods if they agree to order in a certain time frame.
- giarc 6y agoThat's likely the only path to profitability; making deliveries more efficient by saying we'll deliver your food, but it'll be sometime between 5-8pm.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoSo several hours old food that's sounds like its going to be really delicious NOT
- giarc 6y agoNo. If the delivery service knows that they need to send 4 orders to a single neighbourhood, instead of sending a driver back and forth 4 times, they instead can have the restaurant prep the 4 meals at the same time and send the driver to that neighbourhood once. Pizza places do this all the time. You'll often see them with multiple delivery bags in their car.
- SwiftyBug 6y agoBrazilian iFood already does this. You can order a 1.85 USD meal (with no extra fees) a day in advance. It arrives at a predefined time in a generic iFood package. I've never seen such an unappetizing dish in my life, including what I've seen children be fed in a really poor orphanage I used to volunteer in. I really hate the distopic future we're heading into.
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- nerfhammer 6y agomore order flow means you can pool orders together more efficiently. i.e. several people in the same neighborhood order food from the same restaurant within a few minutes.