TenantTable

Group lunch ordering platform for office buildings and coworking spaces, where building operators pay monthly to offer curated local vendor meals and unified billing to tenant companies. · workplace amenities software

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4.8 ShipScore / 10

Owned channel via landlords, but Uber-backed ezCater makes entry the weakest point.

Condition: Revisit only if 5+ building operators pre-commit to paying monthly for a food amenity before you build vendor supply.

Part I — The Verdict what the instruments read

01 — The ShipScore breakdown

Control

No single gatekeeper; still depends on local vendors and delivery logistics.

Entry barriers

Uber's $2.3B ezCater buy strengthens incumbent; Noonvow, Recurpot also launching.

Need

ezCater's ~$2.5B bookings prove category; operator-pays model is unproven, no Reddit signal.

Time-freedom

Vendor curation, menus, and per-building onboarding keep operations manual-heavy.

Scale

Local vendor networks must be built city by city, limiting reach.

What the five commandments measure

C — Control	Do you own the customer, or does a gatekeeper stand between you and revenue?
E — Entry	How hard is this to copy once it works? A rival's existence isn't the question — the durability of their advantage is.
N — Need	Is demand proven with money rather than vibes?
T — Time	Can income detach from your hours, or did you buy yourself a job?
S — Scale	How far does it reach without linear cost?

Scored on the evidence below, against CENTS as we've adapted it plus a Buffett-style moat reading of every rival — the same referee for every idea, including the ones we generate ourselves. The verdict follows the arithmetic: we never relabel a score to make it read better, and the weakest commandment is always named. The exact rubric stays in-house so the scale can't be written for.

02 — The pace test — $1M/yr

At $500/mo (assumed category price), you need 167 subscribers for a $1M/yr pace.

Nearest tracked rivals on that curve:

Perfect HOA

$1k 1%

My Rental

$3k 4%

Part II — The Evidence the receipts, good and bad

03 — Rival scan — corpus tracks 2 similar, 1 stalled under $2k MRR

Perfect HOA	verified MRR $1k (trustmrr)
My Rental	verified MRR $3k (trustmrr)

ezCater (Uber) — ~$2.5B annual bookings, now with Uber's delivery network and enterprise sales.
Noonvow — Prepaid office lunch subscriptions launching now, chasing the same office lunch budget.
Traythread — Already ships menus, orders, and invoices for workplace meals—your unified billing pitch.

04 — Demand evidence

ezCater acquired by Uber for $2.3B on ~$2.5B annual bookings—office food spend is real.
Three new workplace-meal launches (Noonvow, Traythread, Recurpot) signal builder interest, not buyer pull.
No Reddit signals and almost no X chatter on 'tenant amenity' food programs—operator demand unproven.
Corpus rivals (Perfect HOA $1k, My Rental $3k MRR) are property tools, not food—irrelevant comparables.

05 — Risks

Building operators may refuse to pay; budgets for food sit with tenant companies, not landlords.
Two-sided cold start: need vendors and tenants per building simultaneously.
Uber/ezCater can bundle office-building programs at a price you can't match.
Hybrid work keeps office occupancy and group-lunch frequency volatile.

06 — Kill switches — what kills this with one decision

Building operator / property manager — One portfolio landlord declining or churning removes every tenant in those buildings at once.
Uber (ezCater) pricing move — Uber offers free building-wide catering programs, zeroing your monthly fee's value.

Part III — The Plan if you insist on proceeding

07 — What this scan can't tell you

Cannot verify whether landlords actually budget for food amenities versus tenant-paid catering.
No tracked revenue for direct office-lunch competitors beyond ezCater's bookings.
Cannot assess local vendor willingness to accept platform commissions in target cities.

Scores judge the market and business model — not your ability to execute. Verified MRR = independently tracked revenue; reviews/upvotes = platform-reported. Judged 2026-10-17.

08 — The wedge & the next step

Sell to coworking operators as a retention amenity with zero tenant-side setup and consolidated billing.

Cheapest next step: Pitch 10 coworking/flex-space operators this week and ask for a paid pilot LOI at $500/month.

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