We are playing around with Zesty (from ZeroCater) at the moment. Restaurants that were bottom of the barrel with ZeroCater turned out to not be bad at all when handled by Zesty. I'm not sure if this has to do with how they keep the food warm or how they order it.<p>Either way Zesty > ZeroCater imho.
This seems to me like one of those companies that exists in San Francisco and not in the real world. There are plenty of catering services that do this type of thing locally, and it's not really clear why a company would go through the friction of changing.<p>Anyone seeing this be $1b+ exit? Me either.
@URX (YC S13) Switched to Zesty ~1 month ago and have honestly been blown away by the service. I've been on the receiving end of catered meals at several companies - none have offered the food quality or customer service of Zesty. In the rare instance that a meal isn't perfect (almost always that our ravenous team wanted larger portions), David and the team have gone above and beyond to make sure we were happy.<p>The best part - they've NEVER brought us anything we weren't excited to eat. Clearly Zesty takes restaurant screening and meal planning very seriously.
We use Zesty at Scribd and have been very happy with them. We've tried basically all the corporate catering services, ran a direct head-to-head with detailed employee surveys and all, and Zesty won hands down.<p>If you have a startup in San Francisco and are looking for catering / food for your employees, you should definitely use Zesty.
I've been eating Zesty's breakfasts for several weeks now and the overall service quality is dramatically better than any other catering I've seen.
Using Zesty at Heyzap and loving it. They seemed to have solved some of the key problems with corporate lunch delivery. 1. Getting the food in hot. 2. Reliable delivery. 3. Fair sized portions. 4. Healthy options. 5. Employee customization / feedback.
We (Bitnami) have been using Zesty for a couple of weeks and are really happy so far. The food has always arrived on time, they've been great at helping us curate the list of restaurants they rotate through for us and the food is healthy and plentiful.
Just curious about scaling distribution: do they deliver themselves, use waiter.com / MyEatClub or similar?<p>I would use MyEatClub, but I'm ovo-latco-pesci-vegetarian, and don't like restaurant food loaded with cream and salt.