You should list some of the bakers you get bread from on the site/signup and not just in the app. I'm hesitating signing up because I have no real interest in bread delivery unless it's from certain bakeries that I know are worth the extra effort over buying a loaf of Acme bread or whatever at the local Safeway or corner market. Like Josey Baker and Arizmendi, which I see in the screenshots. And even then it's like well... I don't just want bread, I also want like a bunch of their other products (scones, croissants, etc.). Maybe I'm better served by Postmates/Taskrabbit, but more bread products than just loaves of bread would be awesome albeit more complicated.
Also if you could deliver Tartine bread I would be so all over that in an instant! Especially right out of the oven :) Even though I like to bake and I have two loaves' worth of dough proofing in my kitchen right now.
I would be willing to risk $6 one time to test out the service. If the bread wows me, I would not care which bakery the bread came from. If it underwhelms, I have not lost that much.
It's not the $6+ or the service as much as it is my existing bread preferences. Like if all they did was offer Firebrand bread you couldn't pay me to buy that or spend my time even looking at the service, whereas I would pay $15 for a loaf of Tartine delivered within a couple hours in a heartbeat.
Maybe it's because I have such a high standard for bread at my table (my roommate is a foodie too and I can go to Thorough Bread & Pastry, Bi-Rite Market, or Tartine in 10 minutes... or I can bake my own sour sourdough in 30) but knowing where the bread comes from interests me more than what varieties are offered or how convenient the service is.
But I say this as someone that just baked a loaf of beer+cheddar+mustard bread and I smell like pure deliciousness that you can't buy from a delivery service, so maybe the service isn't for me.
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You should list some of the bakers you get bread from on the site/signup and not just in the app. I'm hesitating signing up because I have no real interest in bread delivery unless it's from certain bakeries that I know are worth the extra effort over buying a loaf of Acme bread or whatever at the local Safeway or corner market. Like Josey Baker and Arizmendi, which I see in the screenshots. And even then it's like well... I don't just want bread, I also want like a bunch of their other products (scones, croissants, etc.). Maybe I'm better served by Postmates/Taskrabbit, but more bread products than just loaves of bread would be awesome albeit more complicated.
Also if you could deliver Tartine bread I would be so all over that in an instant! Especially right out of the oven :) Even though I like to bake and I have two loaves' worth of dough proofing in my kitchen right now.
I would be willing to risk $6 one time to test out the service. If the bread wows me, I would not care which bakery the bread came from. If it underwhelms, I have not lost that much.
It's not the $6+ or the service as much as it is my existing bread preferences. Like if all they did was offer Firebrand bread you couldn't pay me to buy that or spend my time even looking at the service, whereas I would pay $15 for a loaf of Tartine delivered within a couple hours in a heartbeat.
Maybe it's because I have such a high standard for bread at my table (my roommate is a foodie too and I can go to Thorough Bread & Pastry, Bi-Rite Market, or Tartine in 10 minutes... or I can bake my own sour sourdough in 30) but knowing where the bread comes from interests me more than what varieties are offered or how convenient the service is.
But I say this as someone that just baked a loaf of beer+cheddar+mustard bread and I smell like pure deliciousness that you can't buy from a delivery service, so maybe the service isn't for me.