How Doordash got their first 1000 customers

Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by ilamont on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:39AM (#23600047)

Many diners love DoorDash for its fast, easy delivery from hundreds of local restaurants. However, some of those restaurants claim they never gave DoorDash permission to post their menus — and problems with the unauthorized deliveries are reflecting badly on their businesses.
Business is good at NYPD Pizza, a family-owned pizza place, but owner Kevin Leidecker fears his reputation for great food and fast delivery has taken a hit ever since DoorDash started taking orders for his restaurant.
"Customers call us back upset because they didn't get what they thought they were getting," he said.
At first, he had no idea why.
What he discovered was that DoorDash had started handling orders for him without asking his permission.
"They took our menu, posted it on DoorDash, and the customer is oblivious to the fact we have no relationship with Door Dash at all," he said.
He put up a Facebook post urging his customers not to order with DoorDash for his restaurant.

"DoorDash makes money by 'reselling' our food at higher prices," he wrote. "They also charge more for delivery. Between the mistakes on the DoorDash listing for our business and trying to take the order over the phone from someone halfway around the world who doesn't understand our product...we simply can't guarantee a DoorDash order to be correct."

https://www.wral.com/doordash-delivery-accused-of-taking-ord...

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Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by sukilot on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:20AM (#23600451)

Isn't it illegal to resell non-shelf-stable food without a foodservice license?

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Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by nogahelena on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:47AM (#23600114)

In addition to adding them to the platform without their consent, they also charge restaurants massive fees, which increase the total bill and eat into restaurant revenues.

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Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by giarc on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:05AM (#23600316)

Are you just comparing the delivery fees and other app added fees? Or are you comparing the menu prices as well? Your intention seems to be to save the user money and also help the restaurant, but if you are actually just showing the lowest price, isn't that actually the opposite of helping the restaurant?

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Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by nogahelena on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:21PM (#23604864)

We're comparing the order total which, including menu pricing, tipping, delivery fee etc. for anyone who wants to help the restaurant the most, the best solution is usually ordering directly because this removes a third party from the transaction as mentioned in the comment below. Currently, we're surfacing direct order links for restaurants who can handle delivery and we're working on making direct orders even more convenient.

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Re:How Doordash got their first 1000 customers by omerg on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:58AM (#23600933)

Highest prices != Increased restaurant revenue

It depends on the deals negotiated with the delivery services. For example, the same restaurant can negotiate a 33% commission with Postmates per delivery and a 18% commission with Grubhub. In this case they will need to increase pricing to break even on the delivery order, but overall they can still make less revenue.

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