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I'd forgotten about the Serving For Three

Elana Centor — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:22:39 -0500

At the time I tried the service, it was just my daughter and myself at home -- my son was in college and Yes..the serving for three was annoying. I remember wondering what the rationale was -- I finally decided that it was really a serving for two with second helpings .

I also think that the food was not that "interesting" because the target audience is probably families with younger children than mine. As a result the food was good but not great. And at $20 a meal, I want great.

I also think that the grocery store is the chore we love to hate. we may say we hate it and wish we didn't have to do it but left with not going to the grocery store we someone miss it -- maybe because the grocery store always has new and fun things for us to try.

elana
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I agree

Kathy333 — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:09:53 -0500

I watched these businesses with interest when they first came out, thinking it was a novel idea.

Yet, I agree with the other posters. The food was expensive, and honestly, the time it took me to get to the place to make or purchase these meals was the time it would take me to hit the market, purchase items on sale, and then cook them at home. But I could take the kids with me if I did the latter-and since I have the kids most of the time, that's what works.

Kathy

Mama Marathoner

Within a ten mile radius

CreativeJunkie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:14:54 -0500

Within a ten mile radius around me, I think there are three or four of these places. I'm a SAHM of two in a middle class neighborhood and I have never visited any of them, but I have several friends who have and while they say the food is good, it's not great and not enough to keep them going back.

From what I can see of their offerings, I think their food is a bit on the expensive side and their portions certainly would not feed my family of four.

I think it's a great concept in theory but the implementation just doesn't work for me. If I have to drive there and spend time there, it has to be worth my time and gas.

Now if they offered delivery? Hmmm, I don't know. I'd have to think about that. Again, where I live, we are saturated with grocery stores as well (Wegmans is king around here) so I don't even know if delivery would do it for me.

I really don't know if they could afford to price their meals low enough for me to consider it worth it.

Andrea

The Creative Junkie

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That's Awful

MealMixer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:51 -0500

I never really understood the concept; it seemed just like Mary Kay with food. You get your friends to come, and hopefully they bring some new friends who have a lot of like minded friends. And when you run out of friends and friends of friends, you give out your remaing stock as holiday gifts.

The food is on the expensive side, and, in the case of one of the companies in my area, the dinners serve 3, so you are somewhat forced to buy 2, which puts each entree in the neighborhood of $20 with no sides. So I don't believe that the franchisee is greedy, I think it's just a bad plan. Because you still have to go grocery shopping for breakfast, lunch and sides. How frustrating is that?

Marianne