Technology is a company's core competitiveness and its most powerful moat.

As a result, investment demand has shrunk dramatically in the real world. Before investing, all industrial capital asks the same question: Where is your technological barrier?

Technology has become a key concern for all investors today.

Chapter Three: The Great Reshuffle in the Food Industry

After the emergence of the virtual world, all industries were pessimistic.

Given the belief that demand will shrink, once people find fulfillment in the virtual world, will they still need fulfillment in the real world?

Only the food industry is optimistic.

They believe that the virtual world still cannot provide enough energy for people in the real world.

People believe that the food delivery and catering industries are about to experience a boom.

Over the past two decades, with the widespread use of food delivery services, fewer and fewer people have chosen to cook for themselves.

Even in New York, where the delivery fee for a takeout order fluctuates around $10, the takeout industry is still growing rapidly at a rate of 50% per year.

However, what was unexpected was that after Blue Star 2 was put into use, it was combined with a large-scale biological communication network.

The food industry was the first to be reshuffled.

McDonald's, KFC, and Starbucks, which have existed for over a century, suffered unprecedented huge losses back then.

Two years later, Starbucks became the first giant in the food industry to fall.

The virtual world brings about a greater complexity of flavors; as long as you can reproduce the flavor, you can replicate it in the virtual world.

For example, in the real world, if we develop a dish, it's hard for me to know whether people will like its taste.

But in the virtual world, I can let countless people taste it and get their feedback.

If there are enough positive reviews, then I can officially include this dish in my real-world menu and offer it to users.

People have known for a long time that region, race, and upbringing can influence a person's taste.

The virtual world allows restaurant groups to customize flavors, including products like fried chicken, which seem to have a recipe that can be used for hundreds of years, but are still being defeated by more customized flavors.

As for why Starbucks was the first giant to fall, it's because your competitors were able to offer the flavors that users wanted.

Users can enjoy dozens of coffee flavors online without consuming any caffeine.

After selecting their preferred flavor, users can simply pick up their food at the physical store.

Using this strategy, Luckin Coffee forced Starbucks to go bankrupt in just one year.

As for why Starbucks doesn't adopt the same strategy, I think you should ask Howard.

However, I suspect that the price was not agreed upon, and Luckin Coffee chose to sell a large portion of its shares to Ali in exchange for the right to access Blue Star II's sensory input.

Starbucks has been unable to reach an agreement with these powerful internet giants on pricing for a long time.

The good news is that Apple acquired the bankrupt Starbucks, and we may see Starbucks' rebirth in the near future.

Besides the catering industry using sensory input to provide users with their preferred flavors, and then providing those flavors to them in the real world, there are other methods.

Some industries are also trying to use the virtual world to achieve their own goals, such as

marijuana.

Meta partnered with the Marijuana Group to offer various flavors of Marijuana to users in America's virtual world.