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So, bros and queens. I launch my meals to go go in two weeks. Not really the name, but i digress. Im thinking of going green with all the meals. Whats yall thoughts on it? They are microwavable. You cant see the food unless you open them is one draw back, but they are actually cheaper than the reusable plastic ones. I guess my questions is that a selling point to yall? Does green make a difference if you purchase from a place? I know we all know it helps the environment, but there is also a bottom line. Any experiences? I worry of soggyness from the soups and sauces on the bottom but I havent read where they tear.
 

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So, bros and queens. I launch my meals to go go in two weeks. Not really the name, but i digress. Im thinking of going green with all the meals. Whats yall thoughts on it? They are microwavable. You cant see the food unless you open them is one draw back, but they are actually cheaper than the reusable plastic ones. I guess my questions is that a selling point to yall? Does green make a difference if you purchase from a place? I know we all know it helps the environment, but there is also a bottom line. Any experiences? I worry of soggyness from the soups and sauces on the bottom but I havent read where they tear.
Definitely go green. It is the only way woke ppl will microwave food into their holes these days imo.
 

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Convenience over whats good for the Earth. If the green option makes my life 0.01% more difficult I will never buy your product again.

"But 51 is an old ******, not your target demo" Bullshit, my age doesn't inform my opinion, I'm a lazy ******, you know who else is lazy, everyone.

But yeah, go green, it's the right think to do, you can talk all about it with the other failed green businessmen.
 

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Convenience over whats good for the Earth. If the green option makes my life 0.01% more difficult I will never buy your product again.

"But 51 is an old ******, not your target demo" Bullshit, my age doesn't inform my opinion, I'm a lazy ******, you know who else is lazy, everyone.

But yeah, go green, it's the right think to do, you can talk all about it with the other failed green businessmen.
You are an enigma
 

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So, bros and queens. I launch my meals to go go in two weeks. Not really the name, but i digress. Im thinking of going green with all the meals. Whats yall thoughts on it? They are microwavable. You cant see the food unless you open them is one draw back, but they are actually cheaper than the reusable plastic ones. I guess my questions is that a selling point to yall? Does green make a difference if you purchase from a place? I know we all know it helps the environment, but there is also a bottom line. Any experiences? I worry of soggyness from the soups and sauces on the bottom but I havent read where they tear.
Have you done any testing? Just to see what people would rather use? It may help and it can’t hurt
 

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Isn't the OP in NOLA?

Since when did a bunch of drunken swamp rats care about what is good for the planet???

Just be able to deliver to them at weird hours to the bars/porches/sidewalks where people are too inebriated to care about anything except how fast you can get that box of yummy in front of them and the OP will be swimming in his money like Scrooge McDuck by 2020.
 

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Guess it depends how you are selling them. Out of a restaurant? On the street? In bulk for meal prep?
 

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Guess it depends how you are selling them. Out of a restaurant? On the street? In bulk for meal prep?
Out of a restaurant. The bulk isnt going to be green. I havent found anything that would work for bulk product except good ol disposable pans.
 

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Isn't the OP in NOLA?

Since when did a bunch of drunken swamp rats care about what is good for the planet???

Just be able to deliver to them at weird hours to the bars/porches/sidewalks where people are too inebriated to care about anything except how fast you can get that box of yummy in front of them and the OP will be swimming in his money like Scrooge McDuck by 2020.
If you visit the mid city and uptown areas, you will see a vast amount of hipsters and hippies that will pay ten dollar for you to piss in a cup and call it green.
 

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If you visit the mid city and uptown areas, you will see a vast amount of hipsters and hippies that will pay ten dollar for you to piss in a cup and call it green.

I guess you may have answered your own question there. Depends if you think uptown will be the bulk of your business. I stayed near Magazine and Napoleon once upon a time and get that is a different crowd than catering to the tourists and other Quarter Rats. I will say that was almost 20 years ago...so I may not be the best to bounce that off of, but it does not sound terribly different....other than rents tripling.
 

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If your gravysauce makes the bottom of my container soggy I will never buy from you again!
 

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So, bros and queens. I launch my meals to go go in two weeks. Not really the name, but i digress. Im thinking of going green with all the meals. Whats yall thoughts on it? They are microwavable. You cant see the food unless you open them is one draw back, but they are actually cheaper than the reusable plastic ones. I guess my questions is that a selling point to yall? Does green make a difference if you purchase from a place? I know we all know it helps the environment, but there is also a bottom line. Any experiences? I worry of soggyness from the soups and sauces on the bottom but I havent read where they tear.

If your company/service doesn't already mention "green" in its title, then its probably pointless to change to green two weeks from launch.
 

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If you visit the mid city and uptown areas, you will see a vast amount of hipsters and hippies that will pay ten dollar for you to piss in a cup and call it green.
I will undercut you and sell them my piss for $9.50.

But microwavable to me is a turn off. Often means it tastes like crap and almost certainly means it is not low carb or healthy.

But I overestimate the percentage of people who consider that, even as Keto is wildly popular.
 

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But microwavable to me is a turn off. Often means it tastes like crap and almost certainly means it is not low carb or healthy.

But I overestimate the percentage of people who consider that, even as Keto is wildly popular.

Its kind of catering to the epitome of laziness...can't even go to the grocery and buy a $5 Hungry Man dinner...need to have it delivered to your house. I'm not sure that type of clientele would care if the meal was "green" or not.
 

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Its kind of catering to the epitome of laziness...can't even go to the grocery and buy a $5 Hungry Man dinner...need to have it delivered to your house. I'm not sure that type of clientele would care if the meal was "green" or not.

The OP does have a good base for that less for laziness and more for an abundance of locals that are in the service industry with schedules that still conflict with most grocery stores. Tourists that like the idea of something to scarf down in the hotel room because they are hungry but too hungover for a restaurant at the time. Just depends on his area of focus, but that is not a standard 9-5 town for most.
 

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