Startup Idea A Day #11: Downtown Food Delivery

Food rocks. If you know me, you know I love food. My eleventh startup idea is a food delivery service that works exclusively downtown. Combine the power of the internet with good old fashioned steel-frame fixie bikes and you've got yourself the next startup 500 company.

The premise is simple, if you work downtown, you probably need food, and maybe your job isn't conducive to getting food when you need it. This applies especially to anyone who works in retail. All you have to do now is build a web app that allows people downtown to pick a restaurant and place an order and then hire an army of bike messengers to take the orders to their destination, and charge something like +10% for delivery.

The pros of this idea are that it could easily catch on quickly, and it doesn't hinge on having millions of users to be profitable. This is always a plus, because the idea of viral is a little far-fetched.

The obvious con of this idea is that, unless you delivery the food yourself, the startup cost of hiring someone to do it may be a little more overhead than many entrepreneurs are willing to risk.

Sorry for the short post, I'm in a hurry to be somewhere, I'll try and expand it later.