You could probably get a private chef for that much. Not a celebrity private chef, but just someone who can cook good food and doesn't want to make min wage working in a kitchen. If you do 20 hours a week prepping and cooking for them, that's $35 an hour. You could probably average the hours down once you get to know their likes and dislikes. Not many part-time jobs pay that much. Get two clients and you make $70 an hour for 40 hours. No kitchen manager, no 16 hour shifts back to back, only a few customers.
Then again I think part of it is that they just like pushing a button and receiving food. The prospect of fielding candidates and actually dealing with another human directly is off-putting. Plus these kinds of people tend to pretend that they don't like spending money. They'll pay $700 for frozen Sysco food but scoff at paying even $200 a week for a private chef. They'll try to haggle an employee down to crumbs but have no problem paying a robot.
you have to subtract ingredients as well, tbf, so round 20-30 bucks an hour (probably fancy ones as well, because 100 dollar delivery borders on something unusual), still tho you get real plating and auteur stuff in exchange
You could probably get a private chef for that much. Not a celebrity private chef, but just someone who can cook good food and doesn't want to make min wage working in a kitchen. If you do 20 hours a week prepping and cooking for them, that's $35 an hour. You could probably average the hours down once you get to know their likes and dislikes. Not many part-time jobs pay that much. Get two clients and you make $70 an hour for 40 hours. No kitchen manager, no 16 hour shifts back to back, only a few customers.
Then again I think part of it is that they just like pushing a button and receiving food. The prospect of fielding candidates and actually dealing with another human directly is off-putting. Plus these kinds of people tend to pretend that they don't like spending money. They'll pay $700 for frozen Sysco food but scoff at paying even $200 a week for a private chef. They'll try to haggle an employee down to crumbs but have no problem paying a robot.
I guarantee the treatler does the
face at the mere thought of eating leftovers too
you have to subtract ingredients as well, tbf, so round 20-30 bucks an hour (probably fancy ones as well, because 100 dollar delivery borders on something unusual), still tho you get real plating and auteur stuff in exchange