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josh January 11, 2021 at 1:49 am.
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joshAlso – no sitdown inside of the Food-To-Go, but Food-To-Go can provide friendly logistics for any restaurants/coffee house etc. that are located nearby. This can be rolled into a cost savings/efficiency for developers of retail areas/complexes.
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joshA restaurant which might take a spot in a mall or a Food Court should be able to operate at a meaningfully lower production cost per serving in the FTG complex setting.
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joshThe “Poverty Menu” or “Low Scratch Menu” is something we can usefully develop in this context. People find themselves in situations where they need to shop for N days worth of food using only $D dollars, and $D/N is a pitiful ratio. It’s not happy, but what is the best you can do & how does that fit with the biz.
My concept is that for the food pickup/delivery biz a good approach to this can be helpful to reach additional customers, generate loyalty habits, etc. I imagine a custom web section that generates constrained selection choices & remembers customer preferences. Print outs for a mass flyer or something like that can be derived from the underlying analysis framework. Site owner may want to set upper bounds on $D/N to avoid simple margin cannibalization – not a tech issue.
From the tech POV, we want to have a dynamic catalog of items with features that have been digitally described in a way that makes them available for linear integer programming optimizations. Example – 1 unit of item I contains c1 calories, c2 grams of carbs, c3 grams of protein,… and costs $x.xx today. The linear program optimization will find a menu that optimizes a set of menu picks for the current sho of N days, less than $D, some constraints on nutritional composition, & some preference values (don’t include this, rating for this other thing is 4 stars, etc). The dynamic catalog allows the site to reflect what is in the store, what they particularly want to move, & current specials/loss leaders from suppliers.
Recipes are also represented. The optimized item choice may include items that are further combined in recipes which are suggested along side the shopping menu. Feedback on recipes can be translated into customized item preferences in some intelligent way.
In the world today, Deep State is literally focused on killing people with low scratch. So besides loyalty, hopefully this can help more people to literally survive.
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