Exactly what the OP article is about, but yes, that would be perfect for this type of application. Cloud kitchens, with dozens of restaurants, delivering food

Exactly what the OP article is about, but yes, that would be perfect for this type of application. Cloud kitchens, with dozens of restaurants, delivering food to a single drop point, serving dozens of residents at once, would enormously drive down delivery costs. Likely to well under a dollar per order. I think the biggest stumbling block with this idea is that enormous amount of customers that would be needed to make this operation efficient. You’d need to convince hundreds of people within a neighbourhood or apartment block to give up cooking, and rely on the delivery service