Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
by Talanes on Monday July 06, 2020 @07:11AM
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Have you ever worked in a restaurant? What you're describing would be a massive undertaking to manage with just a single corporate partner, much less with a collection of independent and small chain restaurants.
Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
by WrtCdEvrydy on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:22AM
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Once you own the delivery space, you can crush restaurants into submission just like the darlings of the tech space have done: Apple, Google, Amazon.
Re:Uber, Postmates Agree on $2.65B All-Stock Deal
by leereeves on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:48AM
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If you force restaurants to optimize everything for timing, you'll end up delivering food on par with McDonalds.
And if it turns out customers are willing to pay restaurant prices for McDonalds quality delivery, then McDonalds themselves will start a delivery service to compete with you.
Restaurants would soon figure out how to use a couple of timers to get every order done on time.
There could also be a deeper integration to ensure that, for example, there are no more than 3 orders worth of fries being cooked at once, or no more than 2 pickups per minute scheduled, to avoid overloading that part of the kitchen.