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I think it makes sense for restaurants to continue building out first-party lower-cost options and continue to be listed on the middlemen services purely for th
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
I think it makes sense for restaurants to continue building out first-party lower-cost options and continue to be listed on the middlemen services purely for that new customer discovery.
My local pizza shop just handed me a card with their own site (and app) for ordering delivery and pickup with fewer fees and lower costs than [your-favorite-vc-funded-third-party-food-delivery-service] after I used one of those services to pick up a pizza because it was severely discounted there.
I pretty much have received the same quality of service and high fees from all of these competitors and personally have no loyalty to any one of them. It's all about the cost. If your product is cheaper with one over the other, I'll just use that.
On the bike aspect, it wasn't uncommon to see bike deliveries for Favor in Austin and Caviar in Boston.
- netsharc 7y agoAnd on the other side, some drivers work for Uber as well as Lyft, depending on who pays more. I wonder if someone's going to offer to be their dispatcher for a percentage... "Ok log-in to X, they have the best rates now!".
- karthikb 7y agohttps://www.mystrodriver.com/ https://www.mystrodriver.com/ Yes
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- shados 7y agoThe big delivery services like Grubhub are just awful and inconsistent. You never know exactly what their relationship with the restaurant is, so you never know what to expect. What I want is a pure aggregator. Give me a way to order online from restaurants that have their own delivery service. The middleman does nothing more but to give them by order and end there. I want to say Foodler worked that way (I dont think Foodler had its own delivery logistic?).
- simplesauce 7y agoGrubhub literally is an aggregator. Granted it does delivery for some restaurants now but the _vast_ majority are done by the restaurant.
- zwkrt 7y agoIronically this aggregator aspect is likely why OP has found quality to vary so much!
- uxp100 7y agoIS that true? It was true 2 years ago, but today my grubhub is filled with restaurants that don't offer delivery elsewhere.
- simplesauce 7y agoYes it’s true. Every restaurant on GH has a contract with them. Some only choose to be on one platform. Unless something changed in the last 6 months, I worked there for a long time.
- uxp100 7y agoBut it seems many of them do not deliver food if you just call them up, which is what I'm talking about. Not other platforms.
- kop316 7y agoBetween Yelp quietly changing numbers to Grubhub affiliated numbers to gouge restaurants [0] and "Grubhub charges restaurants between 15 to 20 percent of the order total" [0], I would not choose to use Grubhub as an Arregator. [0] https://www.techspot.com/news/81324-yelp-quietly-swaps-restaurant-phone-numbers-grubhub-affiliated.html https://www.techspot.com/news/81324-yelp-quietly-swaps-resta...
- SilasX 7y agoThen how would the middleman make its money under that model?
- derefr 7y agoIs there a delivery-service aggregator yet? An "Expedia for food"?