A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16 (2020)

Re:A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas fro... by abraae on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:18PM (#32489082)

There is a place for a middle man, but these guys aren't occupying it yet.

Take 100 customers ordering food from 10 different restaurants, and 5 delivery drivers. There's an optimal delivery schedule where everyone gets their food warm and relatively promptly, and all the drivers are somewhat busy. That's a valid logistical problem that a middleman can solve.

If all the driver is doing is pickup, delivery, pickup, delivery, ad infinitum, then yeah, there's no unique middleman position there.

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Re:A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas fro... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:24PM (#32489157)

I haven't used Doordash in a while, but Uber Eats is definitely attempting to do what you're describing. You have to pay additional money for someone to drive directly from the restaurant to you, or else they'll often stop to do another pickup or delivery on the way.

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Re:A pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas fro... by newsclues on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:36PM (#32489277)

There is a few things:

Food marketing.

Delivery orders for companies without a website or app for ordering. This is worth Pennie’s per order not a hefty %.

Delivery service (logistics and Human Resources). This is hard and not solved.

The hardest part of the problem has not been solved and the tech firms don’t deserve a big cut of food companies revenue for the incomplete service.

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