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Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal by chejazi on Sunday July 05, 2020 @11:17PM (#23744361)
Maybe ghost kitchens will fix the unit economics.
Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal by tbdenney on Monday July 06, 2020 @06:23AM (#23746349)
Kinda surprised this isn't higher up, I also assumed the path to a more sustainable model is to have a set of ghost kitchens making food of different types exclusively serving Deliveroo/Glovo/UberEats customers.
Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal by deleuze on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:38AM (#23748353)
Most of the food I've gotten from ghost kitchens has been pretty okay, but it's still way too expensive, especially if you're a good tipper.

I'm a well paid software engineer, so I can afford to pay like $20 surcharge on laziness, but it doesn't really make sense.

The ghost kitchen burger isn't thaaaat much better than fast food and 2-3x the price. The ghost kitchen burrito is actually worse than the local Mexican street food, just will be delivered to me door.