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The Booming, Ethically Dubious Business of Food Delivery - The Atlantic
Meal-delivery companies are the ultimate symbol of the most powerful force in business today: convenience maximalism.
This is a blessed age for food in America—for dining out and cooking in; for recipe books, and TV shows, and recipe books that become TV shows; for the celebrity chefs who occupy seats in the cultural pantheon once reserved for artists; and above all, for the American eater, who is fortunate to be chewing and digesting at a time when there are more restaurants than ever in the United States.
But the cover image on the history book about this culinary moment might not be a fancy knife, an eggy brunch plate, or an alarmingly bulbous heirloom tomato. It might be … trash. A kitchen garbage bag, bulging with cardboard and plastic molded into a variety of container shapes, whose rancid odor is the ghost of delivery meals past. If America’s gastronomic moment is worth cheering, we are increasingly celebrating it on our couches.
Online delivery is surging, and eating in is the new dining out.
Meal-delivery companies are the ultimate symbol of the most powerful force in business today: convenience maximalism.
This is a blessed age for food in America—for dining out and cooking in; for recipe books, and TV shows, and recipe books that become TV shows; for the celebrity chefs who occupy seats in the cultural pantheon once reserved for artists; and above all, for the American eater, who is fortunate to be chewing and digesting at a time when there are more restaurants than ever in the United States.
But the cover image on the history book about this culinary moment might not be a fancy knife, an eggy brunch plate, or an alarmingly bulbous heirloom tomato. It might be … trash. A kitchen garbage bag, bulging with cardboard and plastic molded into a variety of container shapes, whose rancid odor is the ghost of delivery meals past. If America’s gastronomic moment is worth cheering, we are increasingly celebrating it on our couches.
Online delivery is surging, and eating in is the new dining out.
