Re:DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
by MichaelZuo on Monday December 04, 2023 @04:09PM
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Not sure where you folks live but all the major ordering apps present in Toronto have been excellent in the suburbs. I was fully satisfied at least 9 out of 10 times.
And even the most expensive, ubereats is only, at most, a 20% surcharge compared to the in-restaurant price plus tip, for a $50 order.
Re:DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
by stevenwoo on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:12PM
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I live near Mountain View, California and its probably sampling bias but i would swear that for the entirety of pandemic there were complaints about food delivery missteps and prices on my Nextdoor neighborhood.
Re:DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
by throwaway2037 on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:54PM
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This is a good post. Do you have any thoughts about why this works in Toronto? What is different from other cities? And do workers make living wages?
Re:DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
by mym1990 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:36AM
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I think food delivery at scale is unprofitable, at this point the technology in those apps doesn’t really have a moat. The next logical big step is to have drones delivering the stuff, and at that point you have this massive amount of tech and research to get food 2 miles down the street…it seems pretty counterproductive.
That is the real problem, not that the concept of food delivery is unprofitable by itself.