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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.

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.
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.