Marc Lore, who bought Grubhub last month for $650 million, is helping to expand food delivery and takeout company Wonder, which could soon use artificial intelligence to handle meal selection and delivery. I'm betting that I won't.
In fact, after testing the algorithm himself for several months, he believes it “completely stopped working.”
“I have already started experimenting myself to see what happens. [relying on an algorithm to select meals] Something like. Basically, every day for lunch and dinner, I don't know what I'm going to have until I sit down,” Lore, who relies on algorithms to select and serve her meals, told NYNext.
By day, Lore, 53, works to expand Wonder from its New York location throughout the Northeast. Over the next 13 months, the company will expand from 19 locations in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to 100 locations, and by the end of the decade, Lohr said, Wonder will be spread across the United States. I did.
But he specifically wants to expand into the future where Wonder does more than serve meals.
Lore said the company is exploring ways to automate labor to reduce costs, but the “real breakthrough” will ultimately be when AI is applied to the overall customer experience. Wonder will be able to consider someone's budget, dietary preferences and impact on others, he added. Diet affected sleep and blood sugar levels.
“We're talking about the future five to 10 years from now. But I'm thinking about a much bigger vision…a real opportunity for AI to play a role in telling people what to eat on a diet basis. “There is,” he explained. “Think about an AI that you know as much as you know yourself.”
Lore tells NYNext that he would like to introduce technology like wearables that monitor how certain foods affect the body, and advises avoiding anything that promotes inflammation.
The idea is to “monitor what you're eating, and before your doctor or blood test, eat this to tell you something's wrong…something's not going well in your body, there's a reaction, there's inflammation.” “We need to be able to communicate that what is happening is happening.” When you eat these foods,” Lore explained.
“That’s the future that really excites me.”
Wonder, which has been valued at $5 billion since its founding last year, operates 30 famous food and beverage companies, including Fred's Meat and Bread in Atlanta and Chai Pani, founded in Asheville, North Carolina and listed in the Michelin Guide. We offer food from restaurants and chefs all in one place. , including well-known restaurant concepts such as Bobby Flay Steak and Jota By José Andrés. The idea is to allow people to order multiple dishes from the same app.
Lore's recent partnership with Walmart, which brings Wonder and the company's seven cuisines inside the retail giant's Pennsylvania stores, could serve as a model for other parts of the country.
He declined to disclose the company's financials, but said it has double-digit profit margins at multiple locations. Although food delivery is a much more difficult business than e-commerce, Lore believes that the difficulty of the food delivery business pays off. Unlike products offered by e-commerce giants, such as toilet paper or televisions, people will pay a premium for something unique like a Bobby Flay steak.
Lore recognizes that his vision for Wonder may take more than a few years to become a reality, but getting it out into the world is part of his methodology. He shamelessly insists on saying out loud exactly what he wants and what he believes he will get.
“I think a lot of people are afraid to be bold and afraid to share.” [their dreams] Because it feels dangerous. It's like, “What if I don't achieve it?” or, 'You're going to look stupid,' or something like that,” he said. “But I think the important thing is… to create that vision. Work it out in your head, shape the clay around that vision, and then work backwards.”
And he's not afraid of failure. I count it every day. ”
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