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> I'm really curious where you live Southeastern Brazil, in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area.

• db48x 6y ago
  Ah, ok. I didn’t realize such places still existed. Around here, dishwashers are virtually ubiquitous. It’s actually more common for people to not have washing machines for clothes than to not have a dishwasher. People without their own washing machine can go to a laundromat, for example, or to a community–owned washing machine in their apartment complex. Even people who own washing machines will go to a laundromat for some things, like washing quilts or blankets, which require a larger machine. Meanwhile there are no equivalent places where you can take your dirty dishes to wash.
  • berkes 6y ago
    > Meanwhile there are no equivalent places where you can take your dirty dishes to wash. Considering that "throwaway packaging and cutlery" is a common solution to this: Order food, the packaging, plastic forks and spoons and napkins included. And seeing that a large demography is trying to live off "less waste", I do see an opportunity here. A community "diswashing service". It would need solid infra and tech to not immediately turn into a rat-infested-mould-party, but I truly think that a place where e.g. you drop your dishes, cutlery, glasses etc, and can pick them up in the evening filled with a meal, is an opportunity. For example.
    • db48x 6y ago
      That would be interesting, but I suspect that transporting your dishes there and returning to pick them up would be more work than just loading them into a dishwasher. Unless the service were quite close by. Which reminds me, wasn’t room service once a perk you could get in some apartment buildings? You don’t often find dumbwaiters in apartment buildings any more, for example. I would pay for that if it were available.
  • jcelerier 6y ago
    I live in france and almost none of my friends own a dishwasher but we all have a washing machine
    • db48x 6y ago
      Really? Wow. Maybe washing machine would have been a better analogy :)