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

46 points by jmhamel ↗ HN
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!

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hansy
Always down for free food. Email sent.
esusatyo
I hope you'll scale up to other big cities with very expensive lunches.
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 :)
_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.

songzme
Free food! Thank you, emailed
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.
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.
mzuvella
Amazing how fast this space heated up.
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 kayla@pactapp.com

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 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
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).