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The 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
by shados 7y ago
The 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?
- shados 7y agocharge a fee to the restaurant on leads?
- Ericson2314 7y agoDistributed system with peers hosted by restaurants!
- NicoJuicy 7y agoAlready thought about it, there is money to be earned with it. Monthly subscription for the connector = automisation
- Accacin 7y agoYou're looking for something like JustEat[0], but that's really only for takeaway/fast-food. [0]https://www.just-eat.co.uk/ https://www.just-eat.co.uk/
- NicoJuicy 7y agoAn extension of an application of mine would be perfect to do this. Thought about it for a long time, bit I'm have other priorities