People think they're calling restaurants directly but Grubhub is getting a fee

Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by pmiller2 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:47AM (#23399822)

Just FYI, the menu photos on Yelp are not guaranteed to be up to date, either. The only real way to see what the restaurant's actual menu is without going there is if they have it up on their own website.

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by BeetleB on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:14AM (#23400018)

> Just FYI, the menu photos on Yelp are not guaranteed to be up to date, either

That's true, but rare. If there are no recent photos of the menu, then there's a good chance not many people eat there.

In any case, Grubhub menus are probably more likely to be inaccurate than those photos.

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by pmiller2 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:34AM (#23400159)

It's more common than you think though. I know of restaurants that change their menus daily or weekly. Most don't, but you will run into it if you eat at enough places, and I highly doubt someone is going to post a new photo of the menu every week.

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Re:People think they're calling restaurants directly but Gru... by catalogia on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:26AM (#23403652)

Or just ask the human being on the phone with you if $ITEM is still being offered for $PRICE. The beauty of communicating with humans instead of machines is there are no rules, you're allowed to go 'off script' like that.

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