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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by adrianmsmith on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:51AM (#23780179)
What's wrong with that? If the restaurants are getting the price they want to charge, and if the customers are prepared to pay the higher price, seems everything's OK?

I agree that it's scammy that grubhub etc. is pretending to be the restaurant. But if they made it clear, we are a delivery service giving you access to this restaurant, if you want to order this food you can do so for $17.99, I think everything would be fine with that business model.

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by jiofih on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:55AM (#23780239)
If, but that’s not what they are doing. So there’s everything wrong with that.
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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by adrianmsmith on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:14AM (#23780453)
Understood. But then the law should ban pretending to be someone else (it probably does, but evidently not effectively enough). Having a cap of x% on fees won't solve this problem. It will solve another problem which wasn't a problem in the first place.
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