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Offer HN: Free lunch for your office this week in SF
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!
- hansy 13y agoAlways down for free food. Email sent.
- caffeineninja 13y agoEmail sent!
- esusatyo 13y agoI hope you'll scale up to other big cities with very expensive lunches.
- jmhamel 13y agoWe hope so too!
- blbraverman 13y agoHey, 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 13y agoYay! Send me an email with your info!
- jmhamel 13y agoThanks for all the support - just digging in to all of your lovely emails :)
- _sentient 13y agoAwesome, 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.
- songzme 13y agoFree food! Thank you, emailed
- MaxGabriel 13y agoWhat do you think of your competition, which I imagine are ZeroCater and Cater2Me?
- jmhamel 13y agoI'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.
- mauricio-OH 13y agoHey 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 :)
- matysanchez 13y ago+1, also a phone number would be nice.
- cgag 13y agoIs that first point real? Do you actually find that offensive?
- samiur1204 13y agoYeah, 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.
- mzuvella 13y agoAmazing how fast this space heated up.
- ksibilia 13y agoHey 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 kayla@pactapp.com
- Lita 13y agoHey! 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 13y agoAmelia Shuja Ops Manager at Skycatch I can be reached at 415-994-5850 or amelia@skycatch.com we have 9 people to serve on Thursday lunch. Our address is 1355 Market St 94103, please contact me to discuss further. Thanks!
- GFischer 13y agoI 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).