The whole restaurant marketing/value-added service industry is terrible, sometimes feeling even a bit sleazy. Of course its known that a restaurant's yelp ratin

The whole restaurant marketing/value-added service industry is terrible, sometimes feeling even a bit sleazy. Of course its known that a restaurant's yelp rating is dependent on how much they pay, but all the way down the food chain to the local startup restaurant-services, they seem equally sketchy. Every 3-6 months I see the stickers for some new delivery service, discount club, or rewards program start to show up on the doors of almost every restaurant in town. And then like clockwork within 6 months they are gone because the service either went bust or was dropped by every restaurant (and then went bust) because the restaurant owners finally did the math and saw how much money it was bleeding. While none of them exist in my neck of the woods, it seems that all the "successful" 3rd party food delivery companies are only successful because they're running on VC cash, exploiting contracted delivery personnel, and/or making the restaurant give them a big enough discount such that they only break even.