Nooooooooo! I never managed to try the service but their team and mission was awesome.
Josephine is closing its doors
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#22What was Josephine? I've looked at their homepage but I still have no idea what they did. Was it a restaurant? That served home made food?
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#23I had never heard of them before, the idea is really interesting to me. I went to their website to see if there were any cooks in my area to see if it was worth trying out. It looks like I have to sign up before I can even see any of that :( I am skittish about giving out my contact information, I don't want to deal with throwaway accounts either. I wonder how much growth they missed because of that.
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#24Ouch. And they had just had a big win with their microkitchen bill passing the California State Legislature: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Did it pass the Senate or just the House? I can't tell from that page.
The "Status" tab holds what you're looking for, at the bottom:
"01/29/18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment."
So, just the House, for now.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't restaurants already effectively do this? Although voting doesn't happen in the traditional sense people will vote with their purchasing choices. The restaurant will offer certain things on the menu and ones that don't get ordered will likely get eliminated (assuming the restaurant wants to make money). From what I've read most restaurants in America tend to offer many choices compared to countries like Japan wh…
Not really. I mean this would be more like Top Chef on demand with no fixed menu. There's an inventory of non-perishable/perishable ingredients available in a commercial kitchen. If a lot of people want to order some meal then that gets made with some scheduled delivery time. Surprised no one's attempted the "Uber for whatever meal your heart desires prepped by a personal chef." It'd be expensive, yes, but I could se…
It simply can't be done on demand. I have first hand experience: I work with a chef who spends a day to create a week's worth of meals for me but smaller chunks are not feasible as you need to prep, cook etc and it takes hours -- even if some of the work can be done in parallel while one dish is cooking the other can be prepared etc but still you just can't have a meal ready in 45 minutes after you click order. Quite a few meals actually need to be started the previous day so the dish or parts of it can marinade / simmer / slow cook / set / etc overnight. (I think you meant private chef -- those are employed by the super rich, a personal chef works for multiple clients.)
Also anyone like him will strive to have his schedule full for a few weeks ahead.
So no, this is not Uberable. But, if you are in Vancouver and want good food, drop me an email I will connect you with Michael :)
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#26I had never heard of them before, the idea is really interesting to me. I went to their website to see if there were any cooks in my area to see if it was worth trying out. It looks like I have to sign up before I can even see any of that :( I am skittish about giving out my contact information, I don't want to deal with throwaway accounts either. I wonder how much growth they missed because of that.
Are you by chance in the Los Angeles area? If so maybe there are some of our cooks in your zip code: https://www.dishdivvy.com/
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#27Huh, interesting. I wonder what happened, after reading this: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr... (Steve Yegge talking about joining Grab, and the meal-delivery boom)
I wondered why Steve Yegge stopped blogging. I really enjoyed his old blog, hopefully this will see him back at it!
In the blog post your parent linked, he spoke about it.
"I have a lot of good stories saved up that I’d love to share. Google corporate didn’t much care for my blogging, and even though they never outright forbade it, I received a lot of indirect pressure from various VPs. So eventually I stopped. Sad."
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#28> We will also be sending our cooks off with a transition packet, which will include their business data, customer contact info (for those who opt-in), alternative business proposals and recommendations, tool/service recommendations for replacing our platform functionality, and other general resources. We hope that these personalized packets, along with community-run versions of our cook community forums and groups,…
I agree. That shows some real care about seeing their community propser in the long term. I'd never really known anything about the company (maybe their name, though I couldn't confirm) but this speaks volumes to the type of company they likely were.
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#29Ouch. And they had just had a big win with their microkitchen bill passing the California State Legislature: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
Did it pass the Senate or just the House? I can't tell from that page.
What's the difference between passing in senate and the house?
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#30The site doesnt really explain what they did....