> not really better now

Discoverability is better. There may be a niche for a non-profit app that identifies local restaurants with free delivery. A virtual hallway pile.

Yeah we have the internet now obviously. That’s orthogonal to having actual third party services delivering the food or taking a cut.

> we have the internet now obviously. That’s orthogonal to having actual third party services delivering the food or taking a cut

I don’t think local restaurant discovery, in the context of delivery, is a remotely solved problem outside the food-delivery apps.

That's nice, but the suburbs never had that unless you're ordering pizza or maybe Chinese food. A single restaurant needs a lot of volume to hire their own full-time driver. Amortizing a driver sitting on his couch to come to any restaurant in the area was a big change.

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