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Josephine is closing its doors
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#32The site doesnt really explain what they did....
I believe they allowed people to cook and sell meals in their neighborhood.
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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…
Like https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/bbb?query=personal+chef ?
I don’t know how that would work in Uber-like environment. The chef in question simply might not have the ingredients on hand (especially expensive ones, like truffles or caviar), whatever my heart desires might require significant prep lead time (roasted suckling pig) or not very suitable for delivery (seafood towers, tartars, sorbets).
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It can be done if you don’t let the client choose the meal or the delivery moment. If the menu is chefs choice and designed for ease of production and you deliver daily at a scheduled time, it can be done affordably.
There can be no “I’d like pad Thai in an hour and can you make it gluten free?”
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It can be done if you don’t let the client choose the meal or the delivery moment. If the menu is chefs choice and designed for ease of production and you deliver daily at a scheduled time, it can be done affordably. There can be no “I’d like pad Thai in an hour and can you make it gluten free?”
But GP said
> Surprised no one's attempted the "Uber for whatever meal your heart desires prepped by a personal chef."
Where I presumed "Uber" meant "on demand right now".
Yes, daily at a scheduled time might work.
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#37The site doesnt really explain what they did....
It's just the blog. If you go directly to josephine.com, it's much better about introducing itself.
Kinda stupid not to have a very prominent link (or any link as far as I can tell) from the blog to the main site, though.
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#38What 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?
Did you look at josephine.com, rather than blog.josephine.com? IMO the former does well at explaining itself. The latter seems to be rather stupid in being a pure social media thing.
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#40> 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,…
It seems like it is roughly equivalent to a company releasing their software as open source when they go out of business -- it acknowledges that the profit was simply not there to sustain the company, but makes it possible (not necessarily likely) that the idea can still be sustained without profit.
I really like it.