A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry
I feel like the real problem with meal-in-a-box delivery services is that they are trying to fill the empty shoes of a missing full-time wife and mom because there are more two career couples and both spouses now &quot;need a wife&quot; and it can&#x27;t be found. The problem is that such a service has no real hope of taking the place of someone with actual cooking skill who knows you well and will tweak the recipe to your preferences, possibly without you even having to explicitly ask or remind her.<p>If you can afford a meal-in-a-box service, why would you not just go to a restaurant where the wait staff will do a decent job as a substitute for your own live-in cook previously known as The Wife?<p>I mean, this seems like the worst of all worlds. Someone else decides what you will be eating and you have to do the cooking. I can&#x27;t imagine buying this.