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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by tick_tock_tick on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:34PM (#23398304)
I mean you can absolutely do your first businesses model as long as you don't claim to actually be McDonald's your fine.

The issue here is they agreed to allow GrubHub to pretend to be them. You'd never get that deal with McDonald's since they'd just not agree to it since they know it's a horrible idea but tons of people running restaurants don't understand they are getting a raw deal.

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by CharlesW on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:52PM (#23398436)
> The issue here is they agreed to allow GrubHub to pretend to be them.

Sadly, that's false. GrubHub is a bad actor.

https://www.eater.com/2019/10/30/20940107/grubhub-to-add-res...

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:28PM (#23398697)
Those aren't the restaurants paying a fee. Non-partner restaurants are going to get full menu price.
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