I live near your new place on Polk. Love it. Keep it up!
Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
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Re: Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
#22Love Mac and Cheese, was excited to hear about it a while back. Went to MAC'D in the Marina with family. Pretty good! Though heavy for us and not as much meat. Perhaps we'll get ourselves MAC'D again every now and then. Made for great day-after leftovers. Perfect for some midnight munchies. I'm also originally from Portland, maybe I'll grab some next time I visit!
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#23Please make one next to MIT - the fast casual food situation sucks now due to the construction. There's one food truck, a chipotle, and a clover and maybe a greek place within a reasonable distance from the campus.
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#24Will the prices of your product be flat across the nation or will that be dependent on location?
Curious to see how hard it is to manage quality of food across the states.
Interesting concept, best of luck!
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#25How do you guys plan to strategically and operationally adjust as you expand in to markets that far removed from economics and social drivers of SF?
We can't wait to be in markets removed from the economics of SF! San Francisco has the highest costs of running a restaurant (labor, rent, food) and consequently, hurts our margins. In other areas removed from social drivers, we'll spend less time on our viral social media presence and more on grassroots marketing and community engagement. It's our thought that if we can make it (twice) in SF, we can make it in other…
In these other areas, will you pay your employees a living wage?
Re: Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
#26I’m assuming a giant bowl of pasta and cheese is incredibly unhealthy, even with some brocolli sprinkled on top.
Do you have any moral concerns with this company? We’re a massively obese nation...
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#27I’m assuming a giant bowl of pasta and cheese is incredibly unhealthy, even with some brocolli sprinkled on top. Do you have any moral concerns with this company? We’re a massively obese nation...
Does YC have any moral guidelines for the companies they fund? I was assuming there’d at least be a hand-waving “make the world a better place” or something, but I’m not seeing anything on their principles page: http://www.ycombinator.com/principles/
Would YC fund a cocaine delivery company if it was legal and profitable? A news site that fuels revenue by spreading hate? Military recruiters in poor neighborhoods as a service?
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#28I’m assuming a giant bowl of pasta and cheese is incredibly unhealthy, even with some brocolli sprinkled on top. Do you have any moral concerns with this company? We’re a massively obese nation...
This is a fair point when there are limited options available (price, availability, location, convenience). In Portland, there are tons of options that are healthier and cheaper.
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#29If/when you expand into Canada, can I start the pilot franchise in Ottawa called KRAFT DINER?
Re: Launch HN: MAC'D (YC S18) – Fast-Casual, Build-Your-own Mac and Cheese
#30First off, kudos on launching multiple successful restaurants in a tough city like SF!
> Our technology differentiation is taking advantage of the growth
What does this actually mean? Reading between the lines, sounds like you're going for a standard cloud kitchen model. Besides nicer packaging for delivery, seems like you'll be operating a regular kitchen that does take out. Some platforms like Uber supply restaurants with analytics and data for optimize the menu, I'm curious what you guys planned on doing in-house that was tech heavy.
Don't get me wrong - having a high-growth, low-tech company is amazing - but I'm sensing that the tech-side of this business is overstated by your comment.