Comment by rgbrgb

That's a stawman, nobody's using these apps to make some guy with an app money. Users are on them because it's convenient and fun to have your neighbor cook an extra few portions of what they're having without necessarily doing the dinner party thing or owing them a meal back. Also, like we're seeing with airbnb, the sharing economy doesn't undo regulations, they just demand new types of regulation. I totally agree that there's a food safety concern with these services, I just don't think we should dismiss them entirely because they don't fit well with our current style of regulating restaurants. For example, a single unsterile kitchen in the food-sharing economy presents an order of magnitude less risk than a high throughput restaurant because they serve an order of magnitude less food. It's a slightly different potato, but if we can manage to peel it there are enormous gains to be had in terms of health and community -- just imagine if a healthy home-cooked dinner was as cheap and convenient as picking up a family meal from KFC or take-out chinese food.