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How a Data-Driven Meal Delivery Service Cooks Up Exactly What Customers Want

With help from some San Francisco-based software, Munchery can track customers' order histories and preferences. The results taste like success.
Source: Menu guru: Conrad Chu of Munchery.

Conrad Chu isn’t a restaurateur, grocer, chef or food critic. But for intel on gastronomical trends in two of America’s food meccas, Chu is your man. “In San Francisco, everybody loves kale, whereas in Seattle, there’s a real affinity for Italian food,” he says.  

Chu’s 4-year-old meal-delivery company, Munchery,

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