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> It now manages 1.3 million parking spaces in forty-five hundred locations. >But, for now, customers may find themselves paying a premium for meals similar to
by ausbah 6y ago
> It now manages 1.3 million parking spaces in forty-five hundred locations.
>But, for now, customers may find themselves paying a premium for meals similar to those found at a fast-food restaurant, or in a supermarket freezer.
>Reef’s kitchens are registered as mobile food facilities, which tend to have fewer permitting requirements.
>The branding and food are real, but the restaurants do not exist elsewhere in the physical world.
I can't say I'm exactly thrilled about another "disrupting" another couple of industries. The take up parking and seemingly tiptoe around regulations only to provide mediocre cookie cutter dishes via fake restaurants? I'll have to pass.
- cactus2093 6y agoWow I could not disagree more. Unlike parking spaces, this is at least providing some positive value to a city. And what makes these fake restaurants? These are cheap spaces where entrepreneurial chefs who could never afford to start a full restaurant can open a delivery restaurant and start selling food quickly. They can still develop a name and a brand for themselves via delivery just like any restaurant could. Why does it have to be mediocre food? Surely some amazing food will come out of spaces like this.
- biggidywiggidy 6y agoAmazing food will come out of your kitchen when you learn to cook. Youtube will teach you how.
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- Spivak 6y agoBut this misses the point of getting food for delivery. If cooking is one of your hobbies you will very quickly be able make food better than any mid-tier restaurant in your city (i.e. the kind of place you would probably order take-out from). It's honestly not that big of an accomplishment because you have so many advantages over line cooks when you're just cooking for yourself / your family. Once you're at that point getting take-out isn't about getting better food for a special occasion, it's paying for something better than frozen that you don't have to cook. Ordering take-out is a function of how tired I am, not the quality of food I want.
- mixedCase 6y agoCan you acknowledge that people have different preferences, some of them including buying food instead of spending time cooking (and learning, if applies)?
- ausbah 6y agoIt might, but so far it isn't. It is much easier for companies of this scale to just have standardized, committee designed "restaurants" that cater to what people already like. That isn't inherently bad or anything, just potentially deceptive maybe.
- 082349872349872 6y ago"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery" Neither music, movies, nor microcode are moated. If you all intend to race to the bottom, is exploring variations on high-speed low-prep food delivery all that remains?
- gruturo 6y agoSnowcrash, one of few books where Neal Stevenson did not forget to write an actual ending. Quite recommended