Coffee Delivery Is the Future of On-Demand Ordering
eater.com
eater.com
But in the meantime bring me the biggest cup of lemur turd latté you can transport on your Scoot, millennial.
I don't have much to add, but this almost made me spit out my coffee. Coffee that I made in my own kitchen like a savage.
I still don't see why it hasn't come to an end.
For example, remind me again why twitter is so valuable? this kind of companies use to be rolled out as a side service of bigger companies with a business model.
-Yahoo Messenger (Ads on search engine) -Gtalk (Ads on search engine) .. ..
How it was decided the initial price of Twitter? on the basis of how much people are willing to pay. So why are we rolling these services? Because there is cheap money to invest on them...
Q: Why is that money cheap and where it comes from? A: Others people money, savings, anything where you receive an interest, they take your money and invest it again under the premise of getting more money.... in the most shiny thing you can find... the most promising.... "The Future" until things break, you loose your money and to pay the banks to back up your savings devaluate the money again so you loose twice....
Thanks Startup Machine!!!! :)
Mind explaining the down votes?
Edit: clarity
Your reply talks about chat apps, which are pretty much the opposite of that.
You actually seem to be agreeing, but it is very hard to tell due to the grammatical errors and formatting, which make it hard to understand.
So your post, for those who read through it, turns out to be pretty much the same thought as the GP, but with a harder to understand message.
Of course, people with lots of money could pay for it, but "people with lots of money" isn't what makes Starbucks popular. Their drinks, while expensive for coffee, are cheap. Make the drinks $6 and there's just not enough demand there.
Citations needed.
Then you're not the market because you wouldn't go to Starbucks anyway. For Starbucks customers in the Empire State Building, it's going to take 15 minutes to ride the elevator and stand in line.
Or they're delivering drip coffee which will have even less demand and cost less.
But, have you guys worked in coffee shops? Every day, there's at least a handful of people who come in to order 20 coffees, or (more commonly) a few big containers of coffee for a meeting. Having a delivery service means the admin assistant doesn't need to take 30 minutes to pick up an order and bring it back. Essentially, this is just lite breakfast catering.
The best Coffee is always made by yourself.
Coffee on the Go: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF... src="https://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=stratoptio09-20&l=u...
Coffee at home: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF...
It's a business model and it works well in some places. It doesn't print money, but it gives the chains a competitive advantage.
I find (black) coffee starts going bitter/sour if not drunk soon enough.
The litmus test of good coffee: is it still nice to drink once it's cooled down to room temperature? If it's undrinkable when lukewarm, it's bad coffee hidden by the fact that your taste buds don't work very well at 85°C. Same goes for people who drink vodka chilled to -15°C, it's to avoid actually tasting the vodka.
Coffee is a ritual, and often, a social activity. You go somewhere sooth your mind on some coffee sipping, people watching, chatting with others, or just daydreaming, and then get on with your day.
There are three broad categories for these types of services:
- High pricing targeted at wealthy people, paying sustainable wages to the laborers who provide the actual service.
- Low-mid pricing targeted at the mass market, paying sustainable wages to the laborers who provide the actual service. These companies end up dead.
- Low-mid pricing targeted at the mass market, paying unsustainably low wages (a small fraction of minimum wage) to the laborers who provide the actual service.
My problem is with companies in the third category, and there are many of them. Silicon Valley may not have invented the hollowing of the American middle class, but it seems to really enjoy building businesses that rely on an endless supply of desperate laborers to exist. Businesses in the third category simply cannot exist without extreme inequality, extreme desperation in the lower classes, and a seemingly inexhaustible low-skilled labor pool, and in this way they are IMO representative of the worst tendencies of American culture/society.
Coffee is to be enjoyed and savored, a moment to stop and sense, not to be quickly "crushed" for the caffeine hit, and cafes are for catching up with friends or colleagues, talking socially or business.
That we are all so busy (or just pretending to be busy) that coffee/tea breaks aren't a thing in the workplace here.
How people waste money so recklessly on useless things in this country, not only a daily coffee from a retail outlet but paying for a person to bring it to them, when they could just make a French Press in the office or get an espresso machine or what not, and then we wonder why even high earners live paycheck to paycheck, why median retirement savings are incredibly low and express surprise that Americans can't handle a surprise $500 bill.
I see this in two different contexts: 1. Urban area: Some people are genuinely busy, while some are busy doing "busy" work (useless meetings, facebook, twitter, <insert any app>, et al.). Heavily populated East and West Coast regions fall in this category. I can see this kind of niche service being popular.
2. Suburban area: People who work a fixed schedule (usually 9-5) which is most of the US. I just don't see why such a delivery service would be popular (and I'm probably wrong) other than small pockets (which would not make it economically viable).
On a larger note, I wonder if everyone wants on-demand service (food and drink, packages, groceries, drivers, etc.) what would a person need to earn to be able to afford these services? And what is job function of this person that he/she is unable to run these small errands? Also, if everyone is "ordering in" and hardly going out, what would it do to the social fabric of society?
Frankly it's right up their alley to try this.
[1] oneshots.squarespace.com
First world problem.