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

46 pointsby jmhamelover 11 years ago
Hi HN - I&#x27;m the founder of People Food (pplfood.com). We cater delicious, healthy lunches to startups in SF for only $7 meal.<p>We&#x27;re planning on scaling to &gt;300 heads per day in the next few weeks, so we&#x27;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 &amp; vegan meal available everyday.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in getting free lunch this week, just leave a comment w&#x2F; your company name &amp; info or send me an email at support [at] pplfood.com. Really appreciate your help!

14 comments

_sentientover 11 years ago
Awesome, were we located in SF we would definitely be down.<p>Just a side note. I&#x27;m not sure how much work you&#x27;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&#x2F;fulfillment side.
GFischerover 11 years ago
I live halfway around the world, but this is the company I buy company food from:<p>www.saludable.com.uy<p>and I wanted to give you some feedback on why I chose them :) . some things they do really well:<p>- well planned menus<p>- excellent packaging<p>- individualized tags on packaging<p>Prices are about U$ 12 per individual meal to U$ 17 per 2 meals (what I pay) but that&#x27;s not comparable to the US of course.<p>you can email me in my profile if you want me to send you some pictures :)<p>I mention this because on your webpage I can&#x27;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).
MaxGabrielover 11 years ago
What do you think of your competition, which I imagine are ZeroCater and Cater2Me?
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hansyover 11 years ago
Always down for free food. Email sent.
mauricio-OHover 11 years ago
Hey People Food, some feedback on your post:<p>- 300 heads? the word &quot;people&quot; is in your startup name and you just called people &quot;heads&quot;. Not nice.<p>- &quot;Catering&quot; probably kills this for most readers. Catering is used with &quot;events&quot;. I&#x27;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.<p>- Your ask is weak. I&#x27;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&#x27;s how many free lunches? and per company? I&#x27;d be specific. First come first serve? etc.<p>- Send you (the founder) an email at support @ ?? not personal<p>Please don&#x27;t misunderstand me, this sounds awesome. It&#x27;s just that how it&#x27;s written right now it seems a bit rushed and prone for disappointed HN readers :)
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ksibiliaover 11 years ago
Hey we are totally interested! Love your idea!<p>Name: The Pact, INC Address: 2111 Mission St (at 17th and mission) # People: 14 or 15 Lunch days&#x2F;times: Mondays and Fridays around 1230<p>We would love to use you guys! Please write back to kayla@pactapp.com
Litaover 11 years ago
Hey! We were just looking at you guys for our office lunch last week. We&#x27;d love to give you guys a try.<p>We&#x27;re: Woopra, inc. 650 5th St Ste 402 San Francisco, CA 94107<p>And we&#x27;ve got 7 hungry people who&#x27;d love to use you guys.<p>Thanks!
ameliashujaover 11 years ago
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!
blbravermanover 11 years ago
Hey, seems like a cool idea. I&#x27;m Ben from URX (ben at urx dot com). We&#x27;re in South Park and we&#x27;ll happily grub down.
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jmhamelover 11 years ago
Thanks for all the support - just digging in to all of your lovely emails :)
esusatyoover 11 years ago
I hope you&#x27;ll scale up to other big cities with very expensive lunches.
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mzuvellaover 11 years ago
Amazing how fast this space heated up.
songzmeover 11 years ago
Free food! Thank you, emailed
caffeineninjaover 11 years ago
Email sent!