Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps'

Re:Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps' by psswrd12345 on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:20PM (#22903511)

These food delivery companies are unnecessary middlemen, and generally leeches. Their revenue (note: not income, as they still lose money) comes at expense of restaurants. The economics simply do not work. Please stop using these apps and deal with the restaurants directly.

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Re:Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps' by bradknowles on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:29PM (#22903585)

But the restaurants don’t do delivery.

If they did, then I wouldn’t need to use DoorDash or GrubHub, or whatever.

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Re:Maryland restaurant owner: 'Delete all the delivery apps' by psswrd12345 on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:44PM (#22903684)

And the apps that offer deliver do so at a loss. The economics do not work so long as people need to get paid. You do not _need_ to use delivery services to pick up fro trendy restaurants that represent a bad equilibrium to all parties asides from yourself. This was a market inefficiency enabled by cheap capital.

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