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Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms by LegitShady on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:04PM (#26269498)
Right, but understand that its not that restuarants don't mind these food delivery bandits, its that they have no choice in the current environment. In truth they want nothing to do with them, because they give customers the habit of 'lets check ubereats for dinner' rather than 'lets check Papa Francisco's', and the outrageous fees are beyond belief on top of that.

Restaruants HATE internet food delivery companies. Claims to the contrary aren't true at all.

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Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms by nickff on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:19PM (#26269623)
Take a look at restaurants that run their own deliveries, and you'll see that it makes up a substantial portion of their costs, but they compensate by using smaller facilities in less expensive areas.

Outsourced food delivery services are a large uncontrolled expense which dine-in restaurants just weren't structured to handle. Low liquor sales on take-out and delivery orders are also a huge problem.

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Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms by LegitShady on Thursday February 25, 2021 @11:22PM (#26271341)
I feel like none of that has any bearing on the conversation, and is obvious. Of course restaurants weren't ready for a pandemic. It's not a revelation, it's part of what I was already saying. They hate these parasitic delivery companies, many just have to use them now, if they're still in business.
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Re:Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms by nickff on Friday February 26, 2021 @12:09AM (#26271548)
You’re saying these delivery companies are parasitic, I am saying that they are providing a valuable service at a reasonable cost, and that the real problem is that these restaurants have business models that are incompatible with takeout and delivery.
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