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Suburbanites Fight Over New Dinner Services in Mercedes Vans

Wonder, a delivery startup valued at $3.5 billion, sends a ‘chef-on-the-road’ to your door to finish cooking. Some neighbors are up in arms.

A Wonder vehicle idles on a street in Maplewood, N.J. Johnny Simon/The Wall Street Journal

By

Paul Berger

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J.—Matt Peyton was lying down one evening when the rumble of what sounded like a bus engine reverberated around his bedroom.

Mr. Peyton, a 58-year-old commercial photographer, looked out his window and spotted a long van at the curb. He assumed it was an airport transit service that had gotten lost, so he went outside to help.

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