(I’m posting this in “Chains” because it’s not just MA-based. But I’m obviously focused on the MA locations).
So…I can’t get away from hearing about Wonder.com in Massachusetts. Right now they’re located up and down the East Coast from MA and NH down to Virginia but seem to be relatively new to MA.
Right now, there are only 3 locations in MA (Belmont, Natick, and Framingham), with 7 more to open within the next couple of months (Acton, Newton, Medford, Watertown, Canton, Burlington, and North Andover). This looks like a good option for me at my workplace (former Vitamin Shoppe site on 114 in North Andover), but I’m trying to wrap my head around the premise.
Based on what I can see, it’s a single restaurant location that is able to cook dishes from multiple restaurants from across the country, depending on the choices at that particular location? So if 4 people are placing a delivery order, one person could get fried chicken from Marcus Samuelsson’s restaurant Street Bird, someone else could get Detroit Brick Pizza Co pizza, and another could get new American salmon and butter beans dish from Jonathan Waxman’s Walnut Lane, and the fourth could get Lamb Shawarma from Maydan, located in DC or L.A.?
Have they licensed the recipes from those restaurants? If that’s the case, I love this idea. And I’m loving their Mission re: food waste, sustainability, and contributing back to the communities they’re in.
Has any had any experience ordering multiple restaurant meals from them? How did it go?
I saw ads for these, but zoned out on actual content like most ads. Your interpretation sounds more reasonable than my original hot take. I thought this was a centralized spot for pick up, delivery and even dine-in for your delivery food. Meaning, it was a centralized pick up hub (I assumed you could only get food from your local restaurants) - and you then come by to pick up or dine there like at a communal cafeteria hall. If that sounds utterly stupid to you, then you know my initial reaction – huh?!?
I have ordered twice, and each person ordered from a different restaurant offering, calling it garbage is being polite It’s warmed over pre cooked food that is not even cooked through or prepared properly
If you don’t have any other option I understand why you’re ordering from them
Isn’t that typical approach from ghost kitchen restaurants ? We have/had a few different ones here in the Bay area where you could order from “different” restaurants and ultimately everything came from the same kitchen (which have instructions and licenses from the specific restaurants) - tried once years ago and wasn’t worth any of the calories
Ohhh, that’s disappointing. That was one of the things that made me wonder about them (pun intended) - the very VERY short time frame in which they get the food to you if you request delivery, so if it is truly pre-cooked and them warmed up before delivery? Bleah. Not at all what I had hoped for, but I was probably wishing upon a star.
Just did a Google search (which I probably should have done first before posting here) and a Long Island Restaurant Group on FB has a Nov '25 commenter note: “Wonder bought Grubhub, and meal kit company Blue Apron and is currently worth $7 billion. Their goal is to create a super app, food delivery model; their focus is not eat-in. Ultra-fast expansion and M&A backed by $700 million of crowd share investor money will equate to subpar products if you ask me.” I don’t do apps I don’t really need, so the app wouldn’t be something I use.
I have plenty of options near me in North Andover and the surrounding towns, even though I rarely eat out myself - thought maybe it was an option for a Company Lunch - but no - at least not for me. I just liked the premise (at least the way I was initially interpreting it). There are probably others in my office who will try it - but they’re more quantity over quality eaters, so…
Just realized - THIS should have made me realize they’re probably just microwaving the meals to get them warm after putting them together. DUH. No kitchen to have taken over, and the buildout for a full kitchen is probably cost-prohibitive for something like they’d need if they were actually prepping and cooking dishes there.
