Some marginalised groups struggle to get ID.

That problem is not within the scope of operating a food service business.

That’s not how that works, the problem of getting marginalized people ID cards isn’t solvable by someone in food service. The problem of selling food to your customers in a manner that doesn’t require government ID is.

Like it just requires a little empathy and two seconds of creativity to come up with some other ways you could, depending on what they have, check that it’s their order — they could show their phone, any credit card with their name since they paid with an app, specific details about the order, approximately when they sent it in.

The restaurant could, or could not. It is certainly not "dystopian" though for a restauranteur to decide to save time and streamline by simply requiring verification that the person picking up the food is the person who paid for the food.

An EBT card often has one's name on it. Or a credit card. Or maybe a frequent customer card from the store itself.

There are many options to provide sufficient identification. The goal would be to have something that disconnects the person who is getting the food from the 3rd party delivery and allows the restaurant to charge the 3rd party delivery an additional premium.

Sure, but I am not sure how it relates to my statement disputing that a business verifying the recipient of products/services is the payer is dystopian.

Having had someone pick up my pizza order and a sub order in the past (be it an innocent mistake of a similar looking order or someone stealing my order), I don't exactly consider this dystopian to verify that the pickup order is the same as the person who placed the order.

It puts some addition friction and costs on 3rd party companies doing deliveries that the restaurant doesn't have a partnership with.

Doordash is such a waste of money that I'm not very worried about the overlap.

Imagine an app where we can bring the identifying people _to you_.

Such as?

Which groups were you thinking of?

It is one of the common problems/approaches to disenfranchisement - make it hard to get a government issued ID.

Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you’re poor, black, Latino or elderly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...