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Faked Home-Cooked Meals

The Housebites Pretend You Cooked Service is Deliciously Deceptive

— June 20, 2012 — Lifestyle
The Housebites Pretend You Cooked service is made for people who love to host but hate to cook. Since takeout can be considered taboo when it comes to inviting guests over for a home-cooked meal, this unique service allows people to, well, pretend as though they are offering just that. Having already revolutionized the idea of take away food by creating a gourmet menu cooked by certified chefs, they have now introduced another feature that allows dirty cookware to be delivered as well so that guests will see proof of the 'home-cooked' meal.

Creative and clever, the Housebites Pretend You Cooked service was inspired by customer requests over Twitter and Facebook. For an extra £5, the cookware can be borrowed with a possible £2.50 refund for those who wash up before giving them back. Unfortunately, the service is based in the UK.
Trend Themes
1. Pretend You Cooked Services - Opportunities for creating similar services that offer the illusion of home-cooked meals for people who like to host but despise cooking.
2. Gourmet Takeaway Menus - Opportunities for creating gourmet take away menus that appeal to food enthusiasts and offer a unique dining experience.
3. Social Media-centric Services - Opportunities for creating social media-centric services or businesses that cater to customers' needs and preferences by monitoring and analyzing social media activity.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage - The food and beverage industry could adopt the concept of offering fake home-cooked meals and create gourmet take away menus that appeal to food enthusiasts.
2. Hospitality - The hospitality industry could use pretend you cooked services to give guests the experience of a home-cooked meal and introduce social media-centric services to analyze and monitor customer feedback.
3. Social Media and Analytics - Social media and analytics industry could create tools and services to analyze and monitor customer feedback to identify customer needs and preferences and improve service offerings.
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