[sokoloff]

3 hours for the prep and cleanup for 2 meals is quite a bit longer than our experience as a family of 4. Breakfast and lunch prep/cleanup is closer to 15 minutes than 90 and dinner prep/cleanup might be 30-60 for most meals.

Breakfast and lunch also seem less amenable to delivery as they're often eaten "on a schedule" with little room for screwups or delays.

I agree that delivery has a place; I'm not so sure it's going to be from a centralized location/coordinated kitchens. That central location is unlikely to be experts at sushi, Vietnamese, pizza, subs, have the fries I love, Thai, etc.

[LrnByTeach]

People consume food predominately (70% of total meals in a month)based on ethnic lines and local customs why because that is how their Mom cooked first 15 years of their childhood and their taste buds were developed that way.

If you take a two month window,120 meals (2 meals X 60 days) , 90 meals that is 75% consists repeats from a group of 20 different food dishes .

Let us assume, you are living in typical US city where the population is 30,000 people. There may be 10 different categories of people BASED on their 'food preferences'.

When you combine this 10 different category groups with the above '20 different food dishes repeat' combine this with pre-paid Monthly plan and Centralized Kitchens, you have a quality food at close to GROCERY price bill .

Once the above AGGREGATION happens, It is not hard to have a sushi, Pizza, Thai, Chinese etc.. all under same roof Centralized Kitchen because the kitchen will be serving on a given day serving 1000 Pizza, 1000 Thai, 1000 Sushi, 1000 Subs etc.. for 30,000 population city .