SpoonRocket shuts down • Hacker News Board

Re: SpoonRocket shuts down

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Post by pbarnes_1 » Wed, Mar 16, 2016, 10:38 PM UTC

pbarnes_1 wrote: post #102

azinman2 wrote: post #58

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Sprig's food is way better than spoonrocket, so at least their cost is justified. For SF, it's pretty normal pricing. Bento is meh, but munchery probably is the highest quality (and most expensive) of all. Hadn't heard of healthyout or thistle until now, but they don't seem to be on-demand food services?

Munchery has gone down hill. Calling meals with 70g of fat "healthy" is a bit of a stretch. They used to be more focused on good quality/fresh/healthy. The menu is now the same every day and it's basically a restaurant delivery service where they pre-make the food in large quantities. Presumably this is more sustainable for them money wise, but I used to order Munchery for dinner every single day (when open) for year…

It's funny because this happened today:

http://sf.eater.com/2016/3/16/11247194/pascal-rigo-leaves-mu...

Especially this:

"I just did not share anymore their strategy for growth and their ‘vision’ for the future," Rigo wrote to Eater in an email.

The translation is: the food sucks.

Re: SpoonRocket shuts down

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Post by yishanl » Wed, Mar 16, 2016, 11:11 PM UTC

creamyhorror wrote: post #186

yishanl wrote: post #90

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We tried a variant of this with Mise very early on but we've since pivoted to a much more stable model with massively improved results & proper regulation. There are some highlights from what we learned trying "Airbnb for food." 1. Our target was not home chefs, but instead professional chefs. We worked in the industry for several months and identified how difficult being a chef. Lack of progression, opportunity, and…

Thanks for the enlightening view from the inside. Maybe you should submit it to HN as a blogpost and get more attention for Mise.

Thanks! Means a lot. It's a good idea - one day, I hope when we're successful, perhaps then writing such findings then may be more meaningful and valuable as learnings for others.

Re: SpoonRocket shuts down

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Post by tekklloneer » Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 4:14 AM UTC

azinman2 wrote: post #149

tekklloneer wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not true at all. I'm a vegetarian and the veggie options were usually in the 4-600 range.

I'm not a vegetarian so I ignored those. I imagine that's often true for vegetarian dishes in the US that they're less calorically, with the exception of heavy pasta/cheese/butter dishes. They also sometimes had salad. But in general the options were on the heavy side. I say this as a person who orders delivery from these apps regularly, and 80% of the time checked spoon rocket's options (and 5% of the time ordered).

Why would you ignore them? Some of them were pretty good. Food doesn't need to have meat to be tasty.

Re: SpoonRocket shuts down

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Post by chad_strategic » Mon, Mar 28, 2016, 2:33 AM UTC

JonFish85 wrote: post #135

chad_strategic wrote: post #133

Accounting 101: (No matter if it is 1900, 1950, 1999, or 2015) Revenue -Cost of Goods (food, in this case) = Gross Profit Gross Profit -Sales & General, Administrative = Net profit (SG&A = office space, Webdev, logistics, etc...) I'm sorry, but anything else is just plan BS.

Half-kidding, but where is "growth" in your calculations? A big reason why companies discount their "fixed costs" (e.g. full-time employees' salaries, rent, etc) is because if they can get a marginal profit on their goods, then it's a matter of "making it up in volume". A company can still be losing a tremendous amount of money but have a bright future (I think this is what Amazon did for years): if you're making $0.…

Yes, I suspect Amazon has razor thin margins, so does Walmart and Supermarkets, but they can make it up on volume.

SpoonRocket... I suspect there is limited volume based on their market. (not everybody want's food delivered, people still like to go out every once and a while...)