Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serve healthy fast food

Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by Justsignedup on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:20PM (#26468758)

I think at about $7-$9 for a decent sized lunch meal in say New York or SF would demolish the competition. Sub $10 is really the magic number. Mealpass tried to do this, but as was pointed out, the costs are real, so if you wanna lower the price, usually the size or quality (or both) goes down.

If you hit about $6-7 a meal, you'll be very close to competing with home-cooked meals on cost. Sure people can go a bit cheaper, but it isn't gonna be really a significant reduction, but there will be a large time cost to it for home-cooked.

I am rooting for you. :)

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Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by kolchinski on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:24PM (#26468810)

Thanks!

Yeah for our broke selves the goal has been to basically get the price point down to the point where it's a no-brainer to skip cooking.

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Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by throwawayboise on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:27PM (#26472172)

A bowl of rice with some veggies, beans or protein cooked at home is way less than $6/serving. Heck an apple and a couple of hard boiled eggs is a pretty healthy meal and is less than $1.

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Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by Justsignedup on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:44PM (#26479246)

I had a co-worker who mixed his own breakfast and lunch batches. They were fairly tasteless but he was eating on like 4 bucks a day.

The problem was taste. At some point he was getting literally depressed. I told him to do 1 normal meal once a day, and his mood improved.

Taste is important. Variety is the spice of life.

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Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:20AM (#26473604)

> bowl of rice with some veggies, beans or protein cooked at home is way less than $6/serving

Not if you value your time. Cooking raw beans can easily take 45 minutes.

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Re:Launch HN: Mezli (YC W21) – Robotic restaurants that serv... by NoOneNew on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:46AM (#26475073)

You don't have to stand there and do nothing when beans or a lot of foods are on a stove.

Plus, I don't get the fascination of cooking "single" portions the last decade. The amount of time it takes to cook one portion of nearly everything, you can knock out 4-8 in the same 30-40 min time span. Leftovers next day, lunch or freeze it for a little while. You spent $3/serving and you technically saved more time in the long run and hassle just because you learned to utilize the whole pan instead of a small corner.

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