Awesome news for the Caviar team!
Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
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Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#12The difference is most other food-delivery services tap into an already built-in delivery infrastructure. Is this true? Seems like every modern food delivery company (DoorDash, et al) does this.
Seamless and GrubHub operate like that, they just bring an online interface (and easy management) to the store's pre-existing delivery employees.
In some cases they connect 3rd-party delivery services with the store as well.
AFAIK, Postmates and Caviar are the only two companies going with the two-party model, but employing their own delivery drivers/couriers.
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
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Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seamless and GrubHub operate like that, they just bring an online interface (and easy management) to the store's pre-existing delivery employees.
In some cases they connect 3rd-party delivery services with the store as well. AFAIK, Postmates and Caviar are the only two companies going with the two-party model, but employing their own delivery drivers/couriers.
Doordash does too I believe.
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
In some cases they connect 3rd-party delivery services with the store as well. AFAIK, Postmates and Caviar are the only two companies going with the two-party model, but employing their own delivery drivers/couriers.
Doordash does too I believe.
There are a lot of others like fluc and non bay-area ones like orderup, favor, WunWun, kanga
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#16I wonder is it just me or google search for "Caviar" returns their website at the first position, above the Wiki article for actual "caviar"?
Incognito: http://i.imgur.com/yvmBMde.png
Incognito can still capture your location which will affect the ranking: http://imgur.com/7O04wwl
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#17I wonder is it just me or google search for "Caviar" returns their website at the first position, above the Wiki article for actual "caviar"?
Is that unusual? Depending on the size of the business, more people could be looking for the company than for Wikipedia information on caviar.
"Depending on the size of the business" is the key thing here. No way it's big enough. But in this case it's just Google's personalised results.
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#18I wonder is it just me or google search for "Caviar" returns their website at the first position, above the Wiki article for actual "caviar"?
I believe that PageRank works off of an index of all webpages and ranking is primarily based on the number of links to a particular url. It seems likely that given the number of articles released in the last year about the fundraising efforts of the company, compared to the likely small number of webpages that need to link to the wiki page for caviar (lol), it gets ranked higher, accordingly.
However, I suppose if I am to google caviar then maybe case sensitivity should be included in Google's rankings.
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seamless and GrubHub operate like that, they just bring an online interface (and easy management) to the store's pre-existing delivery employees.
In some cases they connect 3rd-party delivery services with the store as well. AFAIK, Postmates and Caviar are the only two companies going with the two-party model, but employing their own delivery drivers/couriers.
Hm, interesting. Hadn't heard of either of these. On the one hand, they're playing a huge uphill battle and would need to employ thousands of couriers if they want to serve just America's major cities. On the other hand, they could completely rewire the food delivery business. I'm not sure it can work. Restaurants can hire minimum wage or below family members or illegals to deliver as an essentially free service. They live off of tips. Caviar would have to charge a significant premium to stay in business.
Re: Square Acquires Food Delivery Service Caviar (YC S11)
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incognito: http://i.imgur.com/yvmBMde.png
Incognito can still capture your location which will affect the ranking: http://imgur.com/7O04wwl
2nd result on DDG: https://i.imgur.com/zAnFtDp.png
