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The delivery aspect of the pizza business does not need to be profitable as a stand-alone endeavor, whereas the delivery part of Uber Eats does. And it's the d
by thedance 7y ago
The delivery aspect of the pizza business does not need to be profitable as a stand-alone endeavor, whereas the delivery part of Uber Eats does. And it's the driving part that doesn't make any sense. Obviously people have been delivering food in dense and compact cities like New York for decades.
- _jal 7y agoPerviously, the workflow was: - Call local pizza joint, tell them to make a pizza - Pizza joint cooks pizza - Pizza joint tells young kid/local burnout to bring me pizza - Hand young kid/local burnout $$ for pizza, $$ for tip, have pizza. Now: - Tell a publicly traded company to to tell your local pizza joint to make a pizza - Pizza joint cooks pizza - Multinational logistics monopolist-wannabe tells young kid/local burnout to bring me pizza - Take pizza from young kid/local burnout. You may notice a couple insertions that don't seem to make a whole lot of sense, but nevertheless are taking a significant percentage of the, well, not the pie in this case. The pie isn't getting here faster nor does it taste better. Neither the pizza joint nor the young kid/local burnout are making more money. It isn't more convenient. Taking cash out of the transaction legitimately does reduce certain risks. That is an advantage to those who aren't reliant on cash, but note that neither Uber nor Grubhub are required to do that. So the question is, progress for whom?
- mechagodzilla 7y agoMy local pizza place lets me order online (and tip!) with a credit card. It's super convenient - and no uber involved!