Fred Roed

Entrepreneur. Father of three. Living the #entrepreneurlife. Founder and CEO of Heavy Chef, a learning platform for entrepreneurs.

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@LukhanyoNeer Yup. Sitting in traffic right now (yes texting cos I’m stationary 😅). 5 minute drive has taken me 35 already.

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

PSA: Cape Town is full.

[Ash Müller @Askash]

Dark kitchens, also known as “Ghost Kitchens” or “Cloud Kitchens,” were born to fill a severe gap during the pandemic. When we were encouraged to stay away from one another, the idea of ordering food and groceries via an app took off with a bang. The likes of Checkers60, restaurants on UberEats, and Mr D quite literally blew up.🍔🥤🍟

Dark kitchens are virtual kitchens that set up shop in areas close to where people live and work. They must be within the minimal km radius needed to deliver food speedily. They don’t take up expensive, ground-floor retail space with good shop front exposure. Instead, they take up basement spaces with minimal windows, first-floor space, warehouse space, or more affordable commercial spaces with electricity and water for the kitchen set up.

Customers do not visit dark kitchens to sit down, order, and eat; rather, they can call in or order via an app. The dark kitchen then prepares their meal and delivers it to them. With this model, restauranteurs have been able to save money on expensive retail fit-outs, staff, and rent while still being able to serve their customers. Because the kitchen is behind the scenes, many brands can be housed in one kitchen without the consumer ever knowing it.

Click on my latest article below to read about a new company that has the potential to change the face of fast-food retail in #SouthAfrica… 🇿🇦

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@askash Great find, great company. Nice piece Ash, keep on supporting our entreps.

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@LuvuyoRani Two legends 💪🏻

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Who, in your opinion, are South Africa's most exciting startups this year?

#dipstickresearch

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@DrLifesgud @heavychef Haha. Yup. Join us at entrepreneur support group once a month at @Workshop17za Sandton bruv 🤪! I'm right there in the trenches witcha ✊

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@wilkinsoncape Oofff, busted. Thanks for pointing this out.

Media is too involved in dividing this aspiring nation.

Quietly cancels @news24 subscription. **

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

Grammar nerds (South Africa 🇿🇦):
'braai'd' or 'braaid' - ?

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

Elon: We're still looking for people to go to Mars.

Cyril: Send me.

#thumamina
#sendme
#southafrica

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Great meeting with @CyrilRamaphosa

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@MyCiTiBus According to your map, there are no MyCiti top-up near her. There is nothing on your route between Hout Bay and Sea Point (incl Camps Bay).

In other words she will have to walk 6km (around 1hr) to top up her card? It seems really odd that you don't have anything in Camps Bay.

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

Hey @MyCiTiBus - my daughter is in Camps Bay, and needs to top up her card. How can she do that there?

(Also: surely, after 10 years we should have a digital way to do this?)

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@PirateRugbyPod Great spot.

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

Local SA peeps of https://t.co/gmqGOJWtuM, anyone know where I can buy aparcel delivery boxes for outside? I need something that can hold my regular deliveries. The only thing I can find in South Africa is this: https://t.co/1sJNv5vTrq - looks cool, but pricy. Any alternatives?

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

This thread will show you who is the real boss.

1. A Truck flees from the pyroclastic flows spewing from the Mt.Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, 1991.

[Paystack @paystack]

In the spirit of celebrating Africans doing incredible things, we’re counting down the top 10 African countries by total number of medals won from the start of the Olympics in 1896 till 2022 🏅

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@alenribic @aishapandor I remember having a beer with Alen and @StyliChara at Muizies Striped Zebra pub, post surf. We were talking about waves and your hubby kicked off a thoughtful discussion something about quantum mechanics, how he was musing upon a particular theorem between work stuff.
Rad.

[Marian L Tupy @Marian_L_Tupy]

This chart shows that adjusted for inflation, Venezuela's incomes are at a level last experienced after WW II. Socialism eroded 70-80 years of economic development.

[Fred Roed @fredroed]

@geoff_ink Hmm good tip. Thanks.

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So, peeps of twitter, anyone have an opinion on Ethiopian Airlines? - safe? enjoyable? avoid at all costs?