Offer HN: Free lunch for your office this week in SF

[jmhamel]

Hi HN - I'm the founder of People Food (pplfood.com). We cater delicious, healthy lunches to startups in SF for only $7 meal.

We're planning on scaling to >300 heads per day in the next few weeks, so we'd like to do a free test run with 5-7 additional companies for the rest of this week. We can deliver to zipcodes 94102, 94103, 94104, 94105, 94107, 94108, 94109, 94110, 94111, 94124, 94133 and have a meat & vegan meal available everyday.

If you're interested in getting free lunch this week, just leave a comment w/ your company name & info or send me an email at support [at] pplfood.com. Really appreciate your help!

[_sentient]

Awesome, were we located in SF we would definitely be down.

Just a side note. I'm not sure how much work you've put into the website, but that white text against a light blue background is very hard to read. The form could stand some optimization too, unless this is just a MVP for you guys while you work on the back end/fulfillment side.

[GFischer]

I live halfway around the world, but this is the company I buy company food from:

www.saludable.com.uy

and I wanted to give you some feedback on why I chose them :) . some things they do really well:

- well planned menus

- excellent packaging

- individualized tags on packaging

Prices are about U$ 12 per individual meal to U$ 17 per 2 meals (what I pay) but that's not comparable to the US of course.

you can email me in my profile if you want me to send you some pictures :)

I mention this because on your webpage I can't see how you package the food. I also think the menu is too spaced, it would be better in a compact table form (ymmv of course).

[MaxGabriel]

What do you think of your competition, which I imagine are ZeroCater and Cater2Me?

[jmhamel]

I'd say we're targeting a fairly different demographic, as our meals our $7, and we serve to as few as 2 people. We really love to feed startups who might not be able to afford a $12-15 meal, or who don't have enough people to hit the minimum for these other services.

[hansy]

Always down for free food. Email sent.

[mauricio-OH]

Hey People Food, some feedback on your post:

- 300 heads? the word "people" is in your startup name and you just called people "heads". Not nice.

- "Catering" probably kills this for most readers. Catering is used with "events". I'm sure you would deliver as long as a company orders what 2 or more? 3 or more? Just phrase it like that so that anyone in a startup feels empowered to submit their company.

- Your ask is weak. I'd filter for the ideal customer of yours: startups with 5+ (whatever) people and also what the limit is - will you give meals for free to every single company that emails you? or just 5-7? and that's how many free lunches? and per company? I'd be specific. First come first serve? etc.

- Send you (the founder) an email at support @ ?? not personal

Please don't misunderstand me, this sounds awesome. It's just that how it's written right now it seems a bit rushed and prone for disappointed HN readers :)

[cgag]

Is that first point real? Do you actually find that offensive?

[samiur1204]

Yeah, seriously, that post seems overly nitpicky, and the sort of "feedback" that I hope startup founders can filter out. "Head" is a commonly used term in the catering business.

[matysanchez]

+1, also a phone number would be nice.

[ksibilia]

Hey we are totally interested! Love your idea!

Name: The Pact, INC Address: 2111 Mission St (at 17th and mission) # People: 14 or 15 Lunch days/times: Mondays and Fridays around 1230

We would love to use you guys! Please write back to [e-mail]

[Lita]

Hey! We were just looking at you guys for our office lunch last week. We'd love to give you guys a try.

We're: Woopra, inc. 650 5th St Ste 402 San Francisco, CA 94107

And we've got 7 hungry people who'd love to use you guys.

Thanks!

[ameliashuja]

Amelia Shuja Ops Manager at Skycatch I can be reached at 415-994-5850 or [e-mail] we have 9 people to serve on Thursday lunch. Our address is 1355 Market St 94103, please contact me to discuss further. Thanks!

[blbraverman]

Hey, seems like a cool idea. I'm Ben from URX (ben at urx dot com). We're in South Park and we'll happily grub down.

[jmhamel]

Yay! Send me an email with your info!

[jmhamel]

Thanks for all the support - just digging in to all of your lovely emails :)

[esusatyo]

I hope you'll scale up to other big cities with very expensive lunches.

[jmhamel]

We hope so too!

[mzuvella]

Amazing how fast this space heated up.

[songzme]

Free food! Thank you, emailed

[caffeineninja]

Email sent!