My guess is that moving forward businesses will try to reduce labor and overhead through automation and centralization in places like cloud kitchens. Delivery costs to the consumer will eventually be sufficiently streamlined to be negligible, like they allegedly already are in East Asia.
A $20 kebab is not going to fly. The only other option is to optimize whatever costs can be optimized.
Unfortunately it's not looking good for people who are currently employed in the more manual roles. It was only a matter of time before that became the case in the food industry.
Delivery food tends to not taste as well as food that come straight out of the kitchen, and that dynamic is going to be hard to compete with without a much faster delivery pipeline (drone delivery)?
Agreed. I don't think it makes sense to order food from a place that's a 30 minute drive away, but unfortunately in bigger cities with traffic this is the norm as of today. By the time the food makes it to you, it's lukewarm and has lost some of its appeal. A first world problem, but also one of the simple joys of food.
Maybe with cloud kitchens we'll be able to improve kitchen proximity, and we'll improve the containers that the food is delivered in.
Not to mention that most of the containers used for delivery are not biodegradable and, I imagine, generate a ton of extra trash.
A $20 kebab is not going to fly. The only other option is to optimize whatever costs can be optimized.
Unfortunately it's not looking good for people who are currently employed in the more manual roles. It was only a matter of time before that became the case in the food industry.