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Seems like more of a limitation of the container than anything. Certainly in recent times, vaccine supply chain has pushed vacuum flask technology forward signi
by yowlingcat 6y ago
Seems like more of a limitation of the container than anything. Certainly in recent times, vaccine supply chain has pushed vacuum flask technology forward significantly to reduce the need for cold chain. What I wonder is if further commodification of this couldn't also be applied to food delivery.
Just a decade ago, I would've scoffed if someone told me my phone could have as powerful a GPU as my desktop. And yet, here we are today!
- Animats 6y agoIt's not that it's technically impossible. Or even hard. The US Army has had large vacuum flasks for delivering hot food to troops in the field since Vietnam. It's that gig-type delivery services aren't going to use it. They haven't even reached the insulated bag level yet.
- yowlingcat 6y agoPerhaps not today, but it's a competitive, operationally heavy, low margin business. Doordash is public now. The growth has to come from somewhere, no?
- Animats 6y agoThe fundamental problem is that if you deliver in a good container, you have to get the container back. That's an alien concept in modern delivery services.
- yowlingcat 6y agoTrue, either that or your disposable container technology has to level up to being "good enough" while still maintaining cost parity.
- Animats 6y agoThe closest we can probably come to that is styrofoam, which creates another problem.
- e12e 6y agoI wonder if an automated setup like this would benefit from protected atmosphere (eg co2, or nitrogen) in a simple shrinkwrap/sealed container?