Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups - The Atlantic

Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups - The Atlantic

Try two trial issues of The Atlantic with our compliments. The food was decent, but the vibes were dystopian. Aleksander Rubtsov / Corbis AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways 9:00 AM ET I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig. * * * I work some days from my apartment in Berkeley, and every day, I gotta eat. Two or three times a month, I obtain lunch or dinner from a network called Josephine. The first time I encountered Josephine, its website was a bare page that instructed you to enter your phone number and "join our SMS list." The design is only slightly more elaborate today; there's still no iPhone app. * * * Sprig sells on speed: From selection to delivery, it's twenty minutes. The experience is identical to an order from Seamless or GrubHub.

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