Henig: Corporate catering avoids the real-time fulfillment pressure of consumer delivery
Eran Henig · How to Validate an Idea | Eran Henig, Founder of Thriver · PMF Show · Mar 8, 2024 · at 23:56
Eran Henig, founder and CEO of Thriver, explains the structural operational differences between corporate catering and on-demand delivery apps like Uber Eats.
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“One of the other advantages of corporate catering is that you don't need the food from now to now. Imagine skip the dishes, imagine Uber Eats. You're hungry right now. It's 10 p.m. You're watching Netflix. You want your food to show up if you can in like 20 minutes. It's very different with corporate catering. We could ask them, okay, give us in two weeks a day and they'll be fine.”
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