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Great ideas - yeah we send photos of the food plated at the restaurant as part of the experience. We might have to do the plates thing as you suggest as well...

We intend to stay a marketplace and partner with restaurants - right now the pool of restaurants is small because we are looking at high end 'tasting menu' type restaurants. But as we scale up, standard 1 app - 2 entrees - 1 dessert options will be added.

Yeah - I guess our audience is really people who find going to the restaurant challenging. Busy parents and people who are sick of the scene are our main diners.

So the menus rotate about once per month for most restaurants. And all of a sudden diners have to scroll through a ton of menus to find something they want. We can't use item-to-item collaborative filter because we always have a sparse data problem on the new menus.

So instead we are trying to create NLP embeddings on the menus and then ranking new menus based on similarity to old menus the diner liked.

This is great to hear! So happy you liked it.

Cool thanks! I've tried Goldbelly and the issue is it's not 'fun' nor is it really nice. Seems there is a big focus on nostalgia, which is not what I'm after... it'll be interesting to see how things unfold

Would love to talk to you about the different dishes - can you email us [email protected] We can change a lot of the dish experiences.

This is a really good idea.

Well - at a high level the farther out we go and the busier the people (parents for example) the stronger the thesis is and the more convenient we seem.

Generally we've gotten rave reviews on the quality and people have fun doing the finishing instructions. We have a satisfaction guarantee so if you're not happy we will make it right.

Yeah right now you get a sporadic one here and there and we're trying to make it a consistent experience all in one place. Reminds me of early days when I started using airbnb - I was also randomly doing this on craigslist...

Yup, we aim to get the finishing component to be less than 5 minutes. That's the best tradeoff we've found - minimal work and way better quality.

We're open to new ideas on the word too!

Thanks! And yeah we totally agree nothing will replace the restaurant. But what about all the folks who are busy and find it hard to access the food. We're making it for them so access to nice food can be democratized.

Yeah (5) is where we are exploring. There's basically a spectrum between groceries and cooking to sitting at a restaurant.

Taste is 'precooked and de-constructed' so all the condiments, and crunchy stuff is separate. Finishing instructions include oven for 3-5 mins and plating. We found this hits the quality vs. effort tradeoffs best for busy people just outside of cities.

Yeah - our core thesis is that the demand has always been there, this is why people travel into cities on weekends for food. And if we can make it way easier to access then people would have nice dinners more. There was a study that 40% of Americans would like to eat out more than they do now.