Jesus, Iowa is cheap I think I averaged $2 a meal last month. Sandwiches and cereal FTW.
Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
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Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#32A few questions: - Do you have a minimum/maximum order size? - What sort of commitment do you require (the FAQ mentions a commitment but doesn't give details)? - Can you accommodate my low carb/dairy-free/gluten-free/MOKO* lifestyle? - Are there any feedback mechanisms so I can let you know what I thought about the food? - Is there any choice in what I get, or is it all chosen for me? - Do you guarantee my food will…
Minimum order size: 2. We didn't really set a maximum, but so far, nobody has asked for more than we can handle.
All of our current customers have a repeating weekly order. If they want to change it, they have to tell us by Friday the week before. That's really all a 'commitment' means.
Right now, only 1 meat meal and 1 vegan meal a day. We're thinking about adding a GF option.
I was supposed to add a feedback button today, but now my email inbox is overflowing :)
All chosen for you. Current customers love the 'surprise factor' and haven't had any complaints about food choices yet.
Yes. We did have our delivery schedule run 15 mins behind one day and apologized with a 5% discount for our customers.
Hope that answers everything :)
Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#33Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#34A few questions: - Do you have a minimum/maximum order size? - What sort of commitment do you require (the FAQ mentions a commitment but doesn't give details)? - Can you accommodate my low carb/dairy-free/gluten-free/MOKO* lifestyle? - Are there any feedback mechanisms so I can let you know what I thought about the food? - Is there any choice in what I get, or is it all chosen for me? - Do you guarantee my food will…
Minimum order size: 2. We didn't really set a maximum, but so far, nobody has asked for more than we can handle. All of our current customers have a repeating weekly order. If they want to change it, they have to tell us by Friday the week before. That's really all a 'commitment' means. Right now, only 1 meat meal and 1 vegan meal a day. We're thinking about adding a GF option. I was supposed to add a feedback button…
If you don't support weird dietary restrictions like dpiers listed, you will miss out on a lot of offices.
Source: I currently work for ZeroCater. dpiers used to work at ZeroCater, and these are questions you're going to get hit with.
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#35Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#361. Make it $10 or $11. It's the most a lazy and cheap person will pay and it's a lot more than $7. You're still way cheaper than most other options. Use most of the money on delivering great food.
2. Cleanliness! Make sure you put in serious effort to ensuring the things you're delivering were prepared properly and cleanly. That they arrive nicely (tape soup lids well!). One round of office food poisoning...
3. Target individuals and teams. Get groups of people in companies to start "Lunch Pooling" (thelunchpool.com available :D). Make a minimum subscriber count of 3 or even more, so it's worth your while and people are forced to spread the word. Or even use the PayPal/Dropbox technique, people inviting others could get a free lunch. If enough employees do it on their own some companies will decide to just do it for the whole company. The Apple approach to "enterprise" sales.
4. Come to Santa Monica, CA.
Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#37Good idea. But I think pricing needs an update. Usually eating out is $5 a meal.
Maybe in Seattle. In general, double your prices for the Bay Area. :)
I'd be really happy if I could consistently find a $5 meal in SF.
Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#38How can I be sure you source from local markets? This doesn't scale easily either. How do you plan to combat carelessness when demand goes up and you all of sudden need to push out 1000 or 10,000 meals at lunch time?
Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#391. Make it $10 or $11. It's the most a lazy and cheap person will pay and it's a lot more than $7. You're still way cheaper than most other options. Use most of the money on delivering great food. 2. Cleanliness! Make sure you put in serious effort to ensuring the things you're delivering were prepared properly and cleanly. That they arrive nicely (tape soup lids well!). One round of office food poisoning... 3. Targe…
1. We've though about it, but we really want to support the scrappy little seed-stage startups who can't afford $11 lunches, but want to eat lunch as a team.
2. No problems with that so far, but thanks for the tip!
3. That's a good idea! We've been suggesting to really small startups (4. You got it!
Re: Show HN: People Food - $7 Office Lunches for Hungry Startups
#40What a wonderful idea. Just FYI, I went to share this on facebook, and the thumbnail was white on white. You might want to put a few metadata tags in there.