Good morning folks, happy Monday!
Here’s a fun one to start the week. It’s conceptual, but stick with me… I think we’re closer than it seems.
Imagine this: You’re at a cabin in the mountains. You’re hungry, but exhausted from a full day of skiing. You don’t want to cook, so you open a food delivery app, order supper, and 15 minutes later, a drone drops off steaming-hot dumplings on your deck.
This sounds like a dream, but where did it come from?
A ghost kitchen at the nearest regional airport.
Airport-adjacent ghost // cloud kitchens - designed to solely serve drone deliveries - can prep meals fast, load them into drones, and launch them over mountains, canyons, or snow-covered backroads.
No traffic, no drivers, no cold food.
This model will thrive in rugged, rural communities like Jackson Hole, Aspen, Sedona, or any town where the views are better than the infrastructure. The kind of town where it takes 40 minutes to get Pad Thai…
And if anyone sees where this puck is going it’s Travis Kalanick. The Uber co-founder has built automated kitchens for years, anticipating a world where logistics, not location, decides what’s possible. Add drones to that tech stack, and you’ve got gourmet food flying directly to off-grid getaways.
In reality, we’re probably 3 -5 years from seeing this at scale. But the infrastructure ingredients are already here - time just hasn’t caught up yet.
Anyway - I hope you enjoy chewing on this to start the week.
If you have any crazy concepts for The Aerial Economy, please email me. I’d love to hear creative ways to enhance our daily lives.
Disclosure: This is not financial advice.
