You could probably get a private chef for that much. Not a celebrity private chef, but just someone who can cook good food and doesn't want to make min wage working in a kitchen. If you do 20 hours a week prepping and cooking for them, that's $35 an hour. You could probably average the hours down once you get to know their likes and dislikes. Not many part-time jobs pay that much. Get two clients and you make $70 an hour for 40 hours. No kitchen manager, no 16 hour shifts back to back, only a few customers.

Then again I think part of it is that they just like pushing a button and receiving food. The prospect of fielding candidates and actually dealing with another human directly is off-putting. Plus these kinds of people tend to pretend that they don't like spending money. They'll pay $700 for frozen Sysco food but scoff at paying even $200 a week for a private chef. They'll try to haggle an employee down to crumbs but have no problem paying a robot.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 21 hours ago

you have to subtract ingredients as well, tbf, so round 20-30 bucks an hour (probably fancy ones as well, because 100 dollar delivery borders on something unusual), still tho you get real plating and auteur stuff in exchange

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 14 points 22 hours ago

I guarantee the treatler does the bourgeoisie face at the mere thought of eating leftovers too