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The logical next step would be to predictively send these drones up with the most likely packages that the customers could possibly order.

The mobile app would then tell you here are 50 drones with a 10 mile radius - & here is the list of items that are on them - so forget same-day delivery how about same-hour delivery?

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This is basically what meal-delivery services are doing in San Francisco. They stock up on meals in delivery cars and anticipate where the demand would be and drive there.

I don't know why someone isn't driving a route in a van rigged to have curry and rice permanently cooking/warm. Different dish each night. Cheaper for advanced orders. App that tracks location of the van and handles transactions.

If Tuesday was chicken curry night and the cost reflected avoiding the variance and random delivery costs that drive up prices for other food services, I'd buy every week.

Driver plus someone to hand over the food or leave it at the door.

This is pretty much exactly what SpoonRocket does: spoonrocket.com.

What do dishes typically cost? (I'm not anywhere near where they operate.)

$8 or so.

you've just described san francisco's sprig (getsprig.com), except they have three dishes for lunch and a different three dishes for dinner.

Sounds like what ice cream trucks have been doing forever.

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