I agree and hate all food delivery services and just go pick up the food myself instead, but this will all change on a dime if/when someone is able to land a box of Chinese food on my balcony with a drone. The game will be changed forevermore at that point.
Of course, the real problem is Amazon will probably be the one to do it, and then every other competitor will become instantly and permanently obsolete.
Ghost Kitchens with hyper efficient delivery systems absolutely crush the normal delivery apps. We have one in Indy called ClusterTruck that will not start cooking until a driver is on their way and drivers only get 1 order at a time. I get my food 8 minutes after it’s done. It’s always hot, fresh, and reasonable priced at $14 all in. I know they expanded to a couple other cities.
I wonder if there is a space for delivery versions of cook-at-home food, ranging from meal kits like Blue Apron that are shipped via services like FedEx to take-and-bake operations like Papa Murphy’s. That would mitigate the problem of food quality affected by delivery.
I guess I’m ashamed to say that I’m clicking the button and getting a lot of food delivered to my front porch that I never had access to pre-pandemic. It’s expensive, but in the suburbs of a tier 2 city, my options have expanded from pizza and chinese type places to most of the restaurants in a 15 mile radius. I’ll order from a couple places that do their own delivery because I know that DoorDash/GrubHub isn’t great for them, but at least for now, it’s a service that I’m using quite often. Now I hate myself more than normal :(
Nope it’s this. Yeah he’s not a stupid guy, but holy shit are some of his ideas stupid. In particular his position that monopolies are basically fine is one of the most self serving piles of bullshit I know of.
This is definitely being battle tested in the pandemic. One of my favorite local restaurants is doing delivery of component pieces of, say, an enchiladas order. Then you warm the filling, assembly the tortilla wraps, cover with sauce and cheese and bake. It’s super easy and of course much superior right out of the oven.
This describes everything but pizza for me. Also I don’t trust the grubhub driver not to be nibbling on my fries. If I was a grubhub driver in my early 20s - I’d be nibbling on your fries.
Probably be bumps as they get official regulatory approvals and then when distribution news starts hitting. Although if we trip on our dicks trying to do distribution we could have some tanking too.
Shit like this and Uber really makes sitting on my hands and never ever shorting anything hard. I know they’re total fabricated bullshit that is going to zero, but I also know that it would probably bankrupt me if I let it.