Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping
by yellowapple on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:45PM
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Well yeah, but neither Omaha Steaks nor meal kits are advertised as being already prepared. Sending frozen steaks or a refrigerated box of ingredients seems far more reasonable than flying an entire already-made pizza cross country.
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Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping
by kube-system on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:00PM
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Grocery store freezer sections are full of pizzas shipped half way across the country.
I imagine that these food items will be shipped in an appropriate manner as well, or they won’t be very successful.
Re:Uber Eats Nationwide Shipping
by yellowapple on Thursday June 09, 2022 @01:19AM
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Well yeah, but those frozen pizzas ain't advertised as being already-prepared, either. You can't usually just thaw a frozen pizza and expect it to be edible. They also tend to be made pretty differently than how they're made at a pizzeria.
The market for frozen food is already well served.
If you want food from a particular restaurant, then you probably want it in the way that restaurant prepares it.
I have a favorite pizza place, from the town I grew up in. But there's no particular reason to believe their their pizzas will handle being frozen and then cooked at my place better than, say, DiGiorno -- if anything DiGiorno should have a pretty big advantage, they specifically designed their food to come from frozen and be warmed in a normal oven.
The only use I can think of for this is specifically for people who are feeling nostalgic about the leftovers they ate in college...