I have an idea... Entrepreneur

I was waiting for my Genius Bar appointment at the Apple store today and had an idea.

This idea is VERY raw and I want to start a discussion and learn if I'm crazy or if it has some validity.

Imagine your kitchen. Largely unchanged for decades, if not centuries. Basic functions of storing food, cooking food, cleaning dishes and utinsils are what it does best. Now, what if the the cabinets and refrigerator that store food could be eliminated? You'd think that that would be the primary benefit of this idea, but it's not. It would simply mean more storage for dishes/cooking utensils. But what if? What if you could get rid of all of the food in your kitchen? Where would it go you ask? How would you cook? Wouldn't it be nice not to have to store food, throw away containers, stock the refrigerator? Or worry about expiration dates and wasted money on food that's gone bad? How could we solve these problems?

Move the food to the basement or store room near an outside wall. Let me explain.

What if all food in your home was controlled, stored, measured, sorted and dispensed from a single robot like vending machine out of sight? What if when you wanted juice, you selected juice on your iPhone and it came out the dispenser in your kitchen? Imagine those coke machines that allow mixing of any kind of flavor but for water, milk, wine, beer, bubbly water, half/half, etc. Now when we start looking at solid foods like cheese, butter, bread, meat, etc. the solution is a simple dumb waiter like elevator or conveyor system that moves the order from the hidden storage and sorting machine/robot/vending machine into your kitchen for retrieval. Again, these are awesome things, but not even the best part.

Wait for it.

Automatic replenishment of your food - in bulk - without an appointment or without needing to track the inventory of your food, and without packaging - eliminating significant amounts of waste.

This is accomplished through the connected vending machine/dispenser communicating with the food replenishment company. When inventories are low, the delivery vehicle AUTOMATICALLY! comes and hooks up to the exterior food delivery ports on the outside of your home and simply delivers the food to the vending system in your home. The system records the new inventory and dates and you are billed for the service. No bags, no containers, no waste. The best part is that you don't have to be home!

Again, there are more benefits.

Lets say you aren't able to eat all of that heirloom tomato before it went bad. Never mind throwing it out, the system automatically blends it down into a slurry that can be disposed of through the sewer system. Boom.

This entire system could be controlled via your smart phone or tablet.

Some challenges to exist - integrating it into existing homes, setup costs, how the food would be delivered without containers into the vending system,

Discuss!

Submitted January 05, 2016 at 08:14AM by jcpoling http://ift.tt/1PJxC0e Entrepreneur