I second this. I lived for a semester in shanghai and one of my Chinese friends owned a small restaurant (not a proper fancy one, but also no fast food, idk how

I second this. I lived for a semester in shanghai and one of my Chinese friends owned a small restaurant (not a proper fancy one, but also no fast food, idk how to call it) in the shopping mall on the peoples square. Besides the occasional customer, almost everyone ordered by app, resulting in a constant flow of delivery scooter drivers coming and going. She told me that restaurant owners lower prices on the app because app orders are more convenient to them. This is all made possible by the low wage costs of those delivery drivers, which, as a side effect, also 'pollute' scooter lanes in shanghai (something locals complain about). I hope this will be more widespread globally in the future, and then probably done by delivery robots