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Wonder is acquiring Grubhub

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146 points endtwist | 2 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.399s | source
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geor9e ◴[13 Nov 24 20:11 UTC] No.42129455[source]▶
This part feels like The Onion. 30 private taxis coordinating for your meal. "customers can order from upwards of 30 restaurants in a single order, with each item being made-to-order in a sequenced fashion so that they finish simultaneously and can be delivered to the customer together."
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khy ◴[13 Nov 24 20:22 UTC] No.42129561[source]▶
A Wonder just opened near my house, and the "different restaurants" seem to really be just different sections of a large menu with distinct branding. I.e., there is a single physical kitchen that makes food from the different "restaurants".
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pfdietz ◴[13 Nov 24 20:48 UTC] No.42129851[source]▶
There are a bunch of "restaurants" in our town that are just different menus serviced at the same ghost/cloud/dark kitchen. The quality is generally not good. I wonder about the quality at Wonder -- the broader the menu, the harder it is for the preparers to get good at it.
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1. bunderbunder ◴[13 Nov 24 21:04 UTC] No.42129991[source]▶
I'm thinking here of an Indian place near my office that graduated from ghost kitchen to food hall restaurant. I had their food both before and after, and the difference was night and day. I actually didn't want to try the food hall version, based on my experience with their ghost kitchen incarnation. But a friend convinced me to give them another chance, and now they're one of my favorite places for when I want to splurge on lunch.

I don't really know what the difference is, but I'm guessing it's that they didn't get to have a kitchen setup that was well adapted to their menu at the ghost kitchen.

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2. mapt ◴[13 Nov 24 22:51 UTC] No.42131106[source]▶
You can change the name, the brand, of a ghost kitchen startup 'restaurant' overnight if you think it's stale due to bad consumer experiences. So you need to care less about those.