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Re:America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies sti... by esoterica on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:13PM (#23170590)
There are substantial fixed costs around developing an app that are cheaper when amortized over a larger market. It’s more efficient to write one app to be used globally than 100 apps for 100 different cities.

Also people definitely get food delivered while on vacation or traveling for work. Probably even more often than they do at home since they don’t have access to a kitchen to cook in.

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Re:America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies sti... by johannes1234321 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:49PM (#23171005)
Also brand recognition. Over here pizza.de for a long time was the market leader. You can't beat that name and push it with a national merketing campaign. Wehreve in the country, go to pizza.de. (Meanwhile deliveryhero / Lieferheld acquired them using VC money (Rocket Internet and others))
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