- Kelly O
- While copious, the packaging is all eco- and eyeball-friendly.
Let’s say you don’t know how to cook—or just don’t want to, and are in a position of privilege enough to have a choice in the matter. You’re sick of ordering pizza and don’t feel like going out. Or you’re working late. Or you’re involved with your couch and a video game. Or you have a hot date and some candles and you just need the basil pesto salmon or chicken piccata and capellini. For you, there is tech-start-up dinner-delivery-service Munchery. You can party like it’s 1999 all over again—if you’re in the right zip code.
Munchery started almost four years ago in San Francisco, when two tech guys kept having to face the eternal problem of what’s for dinner. Their wives worked, too, as Seattle Munchery GM Christie Voos tells it; they liked to go out to eat on the weekends, but during the week, dinnertime became one of the most stressful times of the day. What if there was a service where professional chefs made dinner for you, brought to your door at the hour of your choosing? What if you could select from a half-dozen entrées, gorgeously photographed and lovingly blurbed, on the website or app, and have it delivered in a matter of minutes or hours, or preplanned for the whole week? It feels like the bubbly dream of the ’90s, when kozmo.com, homegrocer.com, and the like magically met (almost) all your needs at the touch of a button…