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Still not thinking big enough, say it with me: "Fully Automated Space Kitchen constellations". Cryogenically frozen burritos. dropped from orbit, and reheated by connecting combinations of copper heatpipes to the fiery heatshield at precise times during re-entry. Global delivery in 30 minutes or less*.

* No refunds on orders damaged en route by SAM, or delivery mechanism malfunction. Customer waives their right to any claims for compensation for property damage, injury or loss of life due to elevated delivery velocity.



Flip the script!

Why have installations or stores at all? Just have a self driving and self making burrito trucks. You order one up, and on the way to you, it's being made in the back. Little hatch on the side, shoots out onto your doorstep or through your window.

Then, of course, you've now got an arms race of self making burrito trucks roaming about. Chipotle has one, Taco bell too. And, of course, if a Taco Bell truck knows that a Chipotle truck is next to it on the freeway, well, I mean, there's no one inside it of course. How could you prove that those nails came out of the bottom of the truck anyways?

Pretty soon, we've got burrito trucks duking it out, battle bots style, on the freeways and streets. And then you gotta deploy countermeasures, armor, etc. Just to get your burrito to you. Order up two from different companies and you've got dinner and a show.

And, honestly, is this not the future we all really want? Giant junk food filled mech-cars blasting each other at high speeds from the comfort of our couches.


Other people mentioned Zume pizza tried this in the past. Currently there is a company doing this San Mateo call Olhso:

https://www.olhsotruck.com/

They have not implemented the Mad Max style of vehicular combat you described, yet.


You're still thinking too small. Think back to the heady days of intense Java popularity and strain your brain to remember your Gang Of Four...

What's better than a Factory?

A FactoryFactory!

Why order a burrito that is made in a truck, when you can order a BurritoFactory that is constructed en route to you, to your exact specifications, and from then on, will make you endless burritos from the comfort of your own home?!?


That's small strategy thinking. You really need to use a service that creates factories to create factories that create factories. f3, our next startup! The goal it push it on the market via our tie in with oracle, all compliant Java Dev Kits will have to support f3.


Zume already tried with pizza in the Bay Area (though the trucks weren't self driving), IIRC.

Didn't work out, last I checked.

(Edited a bunch of times for doofusness.)


Is this how the fast food wars of Demolition Man started?


Maybe you don't order one up? Instead it's like an ice-cream truck but for grownups and it's burritos. The music could be mariachi chiptunes


Finally a vision of the future I can get behind


This is one of the better comment threads I've read here in a while. Thank you!


Take off and nacho them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


And one wonders why 70% of US population is obese!!



Still too inefficient. We can replace our stomachs with small modular nuclear reactors and instead of wasting money on inefficiently produced burritos, we’d only have to swallow one uranium pellet every 10 years.


Rods from God Burritos. The second one is free, if you survive.


But they're more like taquitos than burritos for aerodynamic reasons, also they get flame grilled as they re-enter. The secret sauce IP is getting the ablative tortilla just right so it doesn't totally burn off during reentry but also isn't to thick once it gets in the hand.


Getting the mass into orbit for those heatshields sounds expensive


No worries, the v4 starship will finally work, and somehow through musk stock manipulation it will be really cheap (ignore the current excitement around v3 starship about to start flight).


Intriguing


Might work with burritos, but it doesn't work with steak:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/





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