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Garg: Modern food companies must operate as technology companies
“I think a modern food company has to be a tech company.”
Garg: Food companies should hold the most consumer data of any industry
“In my opinion, you know, people eat food three times a day. If any company should have the most data or insight into who a person is, it should be a food company.”
Garg: Whole Foods marketing succeeded only by focusing on individual health
“Whole Foods talks about how when they tried to market in favor of the farmer, it didn't work, or sustainability, or local, and only when they said, organic is healthy for you. Food is about you, is when people started caring.”
Garg: Gobble aims to create a Spotify-like personalized taste map for meals
“Long term, we think about what is best for you to eat based on your genetics, your age, your background, your taste preferences, and we try to personalize food in the same way that Spotify has developed a fingerprint for music. We want to own that fingerprint …”
Garg: Consumers increasingly want meat as a garnish, not the main course
“We can see more people caring about health and food transparency and where their food comes from and so I slowly see more people eating they want meat as a garnish on their food as opposed to a center of plate every single time, which I think is, is great and …”
Ushma Garg: No single product will dominate the future of food
“I actually think that no one solution is going to own the future. I think it'll be a, like, constellation of solutions that fit different people and also people at different stages of life.”
Garg: Gobble maintains buffer inventory and standby trucks for failed deliveries
“We actually have emergency you know, trucks ready for overnight shipments, a certain buffer amount of every single dish. We did, we've been doing this for long enough to where we know how much buffer to make and how many missed deliveries we expect on any one …”
Garg: Gobble meal preferences shift from heavy comfort food to healthy options in January
“We go from all of our, all those biscuits and mashed potatoes to lots of salads and, you know, like shredded chicken or salmon and that kind of thing.”
Garg: 10% of Gobble's active user base is vegetarian
“About 10% of our user base right now is vegetarian.”
Garg: Gobble started with an $8-a-plate Craigslist ad for home-cooked meals
“Gobble just started very organically by me solving the problem for myself and posting a Craigslist ad and asking, hey, can anyone make me home cooked food for eight dollars a plate?”
Garg: Gobble meal kits allow customers to cook fresh meals in 10 minutes
“We do all the prep work so that you can control the end result and cook in one pan in 10 minutes and have a fresh home-cooked meal for your family.”
Garg: Gobble relies on surveys and historical data for ingredient forecasting
“We rely so heavily on on user surveys, on past year behavior, and on watching how people evolve every single week to forecast exactly how much to procure of every single ingredient, and then to make the very best menus every single week, and especially for the…”