Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants

Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by jiofih on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:57AM (#23780267)

There are plenty of “proxy shipping” services that operate under this model. They don’t conceal the fact that they are a third party unaffiliated with the provider.

In addition, most restaurants will not just accept takeout orders from a random person that shows up on a bike, it’s an organized partnership. I wonder how they even achieve that.

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by umanwizard on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:35PM (#23782738)

> most restaurants will not just accept takeout orders from a random person that shows up on a bike

Why not?

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by jiofih on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:43PM (#23784227)

A variety of pedestrian reasons:

- they don’t have the appropriate packaging, ie don’t actually do delivery

- it’s inconvenient for their order pipeline / system

- they can’t vouch for the carrier handling, is the food going to arrive still hot? A shaken mess?

- is the carrier going to add or remove something before it reaches the customer?

Any of those can be damaging for the restaurant, losing a customer, or even downright dangerous in the case of incorrect handling.

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by chrisseaton on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:55PM (#23782984)

I don't think most restaurants have a takeout service in the first place.

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