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"Lunch gets delivered to the office every day at noon. We asked our former office manager to order lunch every day, because I didn't want to worry about it. I just wanted food to show up. He did it for a year before starting his own business, which now provides this service for us and for other start-ups in the area, too."

Anyone have the name of this service?

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Hey PJ - that's me, the service is called ZeroCater.com Yeah, it was pretty cool to be almost mentioned in Inc.

Feel free to get in touch with me: a@zerocater.com

Thanks!

Arram

I'd be hesitant to use your service without a referral. Your site doesn't list your restaurants, your fees, or your happy clients. It's just a Google Doc lead gen form. Why?

There's almost no selling going on on the website, so probably most of their business spreads through word-of-mouth, with visitors to the site already having been referred by happy clients. They also probably need to control how many new clients they adopt to ensure they have adequate capacity before scaling.

Spot on. Almost anyone who sees the site has already met me or been referred by one of my customers.

That said, clearly there's a lot of work to be done on the site.

Hey, I remember you from poker! Glad to see you're doing well. I'm assuming zerocater's just for companies in SF at the moment, not someplace nearby like Burlingame?

ZeroCater is an amazing service. I recommend it for any startup.

Do you guys do new york as well?

Not yet. Check back in 6 months!

ZeroCater

Clickable: http://zerocater.com/

Upside down: /ɯoɔ˙ɹǝʇɐɔoɹǝz//:dʇʇɥ

How did you do that?

http://www.fliptext.org/ would be one approach. (or something like http://pypi.python.org/pypi/upsidedown for the semi-hardcore)

He held the keyboard upside down.

ouch. i think you just held my brain upside down.

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