Say Hello to Maple, the Momofuku-Backed Delivery App, Launching Today in FiDi

In the beginning, there was the telephone. You picked it up, you dialed Tang Tang, and your sesame noodles arrived almost before you hung up. Today’s food-delivery universe is a bit more complicated, populated by tech start-ups racing to corner a venture-capital-funded emerging market. The latest of these is Maple, a new service with a commissary kitchen in Brooklyn and the first of a future network of delivery-kitchen hubs serving Manhattan below Chambers Street as of today. It has everything...