Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19

Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by JeremyNT on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @01:35PM (#23093898)

A reasonable request! And if that's the primary value add of these services, I would suggest that a traditional non-unicorn SaaS company[0] could provide a very inexpensive web portal for restaurants that handles order processing, while leaving the logistics to the restaurant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChowNow

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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by TylerE on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:36PM (#23095336)

Something as simple sounding as a menu can be surprisingly complex.

A local burger place's burger has, I just worked out, 34,832,528,367,943,700 possible combinations. Some options are mututally exclusive, some add an extra charge. Etc.

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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by rstupek on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#23095946)

and yet doesn't their pos terminal handle all of that already?

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Re:Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19 by TylerE on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:18PM (#23096432)

It's all done on paper. It only gets entered into the POS as the total "Custom Burger - $17.95" soethign like that

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