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TLDR: NIMBYs are unhappy about the traffic problems caused by economic progress. Ghost kitchens are great. Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to sc
by lacker 3y ago
TLDR: NIMBYs are unhappy about the traffic problems caused by economic progress.
Ghost kitchens are great. Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. And yet Americans spend about 5% of their waking lives on food prep. One day, making your own dinner could be an occasional hobby, like knitting your own sweater.
The long term promise is especially high with robotics. Your food could be made by a robot, the whole delivery could happen with an autonomous vehicle. And if the food robot is centralized, I don't have to worry about the cleaning and maintenance myself.
- hot_gril 3y agoYep, call me a NIMBY but I don't want this kind of business operating in my residential street. There are plenty of business zones where this economic progress can take place. Also, illegally double-parking isn't fair game. If the police enforce those laws, there are economic solutions to that too, like building more parking. But often times the zoning will mandate spots too because they know a huge business without that is gonna rely on illegal parking.
- vasvae3 3y ago[flagged]
- hot_gril 3y agoIdk what HN wants, I'm not HN. But 15-minute city wouldn't have cars delivering food to begin with.
- gruez 3y ago> Yep, call me a NIMBY but I don't want this kind of business operating in my residential street. There are plenty of business zones where this economic progress can take place. That's basically the standard NIMBY line. "I don't oppose [thing], I just don't want [thing] near where I live."
- hot_gril 3y agoOf course, because I'm a NIMBY.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago> Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale. Ah, yes, restaurants, that flash-in-the-pan, economically unproven innovation. Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale".
- Turing_Machine 3y agoRestaurants have pretty much the highest attrition rate of any type of small business. Ones that aren't "flash-in-the-pan" are generally outliers, sometimes extreme outliers in areas that have a lot of competition.
- gruez 3y ago>Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale". Scaling makes it possible for more people to enjoy higher quality goods/experiences. You're making this post on a device that exists thanks to "scale". You likely live in a city that exist because of "scale". You enjoy modern amenities like electricity and running water thanks to "scale".
- demondemidi 3y ago[flagged]
- gruez 3y ago>Restaurants of any decent quality require talent, proper ingredients, and time. You're missing the most critical one: money. You need money to get a restaurant off the ground, and money makes acquiring talent, ingredients, and time easier. Ghost kitchens help on money aspect by not requiring you to lease/renovate prime real estate for the restaurant and not having to worry about hiring/managing FoH staff.
- hot_gril 3y agoCould you not name-call?
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- jimjimjim 3y ago[flagged]
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI think even Soylent involved some people at some point, so to be honest there are inefficiencies there that we should aim to scale away from to maintain annual growth.
- hot_gril 3y agoZankou chicken will eventually scale out of LA once the inefficiencies of family wars are resolved.