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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by yellow_postit on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:56AM (#23780254)
Option implies that restaurants can opt in/out which for cases like GrubHub isn’t possible.

These apps can lead to poor experience and perception of the restaurant due to the delivery short comings and customers tend to transfer any unhappiness with the delivery as being the restaurants fault (eg late delivery and cold food).

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by chrisseaton on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:13AM (#23780451)
> Option implies that restaurants can opt in/out which for cases like GrubHub isn’t possible.

Should a manufacturer have the right to say that you can't re-sell something that you bought from them fairly? That doesn't sound great to me. If Doordash fairly buy the food then they can sell it to me (as long as they follow food regulations). That sounds fine, doesn't it?

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by greenshackle2 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:09AM (#23781094)
If the reseller is pretty much pretending to be the manufacturer, and goes on yelp and change the manufacturer's phone number to their own.. I don't know if they have the right, but it's pretty scummy.
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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by YuPro on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:21AM (#23780539)
It shouldn't have the right to restrict re-selling but sure it's ok to have the right to not sell to somebody anymore.
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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by chrisseaton on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:27AM (#23780604)
They've already got that right.
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