Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by xyzzyz on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:11AM
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As much as consumers would love the idea of non-profits sweeping in and doing the same service as businesses sans the profit margin, this is simply not what we observe in real world very often. Running an organization is hard, and people doing that usually want to be compensated for their efforts.
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Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by legolas2412 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:30AM
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> people doing that usually want to be compensated for their efforts.
Non profit does not mean free. People can be paid salary, but the business does not need a 30% Profit margin.
Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by skrtskrt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:08AM
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If anything non profits have a somewhat of a reputation for being a way to pay the top people big salaries without the pressure of having investors pushing for more profits & getting the image of being "good" mostly for free since it's a non profit.
Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by awa on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:51PM
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Most of the food deliveries services are running using VC funds. I don't think there's much scope of profit here for a ~$5-$7/delivery charge having someone someone pickup and deliver a package along with other costs like building/maintaining the system, credit card charges etc,
Frankly, I feel something like peach which bundles multiple orders from a few restaurants is the way to go if you want to make money as a food delivery service.