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Prepared food at restaurants doesn't scale. If you want to serve X customers it takes Y employees and Z space, or N cost. If you want to serve 2X customers it
by ALittleLight 6y ago
Prepared food at restaurants doesn't scale. If you want to serve X customers it takes Y employees and Z space, or N cost. If you want to serve 2X customers it takes 2N cost, and if you want to serve KX customers it takes KN cost. This is what I mean by not scaling.
If deliveries worked better, maybe you could reduce the space you needed. If robots worked better then maybe you could reduce the number of employees. If there was some other solution, perhaps you could do better in all sorts of ways.
I don't know much about food tech, but I assume this is the kind of problem that food tech startups are trying to solve. Either way, food tech startups are trying to solve a problem and do something that Albrecht is not. Albrecht is, presumably, not trying to build food automation or work out a new way to deliveries, but is rather selling Kimchi. I'm not writing that to diminish her work, just to point out that she is in a different field than the food tech companies.
Albrecht may have problems that food tech companies would like to solve (e.g. "It's a burden to have to have so much kitchen space when I have relatively low demand") but she doesn't have solutions that are applicable to the food tech companies, because if she had those solutions then she wouldn't have the problems.