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 chrisseaton on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:40AM (#23780769)

> What percentage of customers do you think understand that Grubhub is marking up their food?

Why do they need to care about the markup? If the burger price seems like a good deal, go for it, otherwise don't.

> Some of the restaurants customers are turning it down and going elsewhere because Grubhub has misrepresented their prices.

Well then that seems like the situation is fixing itself due to everyone's free ability to do what they want? So why are we complaining?

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by treis on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:03AM (#23781040)

>Why do they need to care about the markup? If the burger price seems like a good deal, go for it, otherwise don't.

Why don't you answer the question?

>Well then that seems like the situation is fixing itself due to everyone's free ability to do what they want? So why are we complaining?

In what way is the situation being fixed?

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by chrisseaton on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:08AM (#23781081)

> Why don't you answer the question?

Well I'm not the one who cares about it. I don't understand why anyone else would. So I can't answer it!

> In what way is the situation being fixed?

People who don't want to do business with Doordash don't have to. If you don't like Doordash you can just forget they exist. It's not a problem.

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Re:Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps... by panzagl on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:39PM (#23782013)

People always 'find out' about mark ups and get pissed about them, but businesses are not charities.

And let's not act like this law was passed because of consumers- this is restaurant owners trying to have their cake and eat it too.

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