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It doesn't fully explain why they priced a $24 pizza at $16. I wouldn't be surprised if they're subsidizing purchases, but just skipping fees doesn't explain th

by bb611 6y ago

It doesn't fully explain why they priced a $24 pizza at $16. I wouldn't be surprised if they're subsidizing purchases, but just skipping fees doesn't explain that.

vkou 6y ago
They are taking a loss on every order, but they are hoping to make up for it with volume.
- nelaboras 6y ago
  You can't make up for it in volume if each order makes a loss and you get no benefit from having more orders (they still pay each time the full price to the restaurant!)
  - shawabawa3 6y ago
    (that's the joke)
MattGaiser 6y ago
Lets them inflate the order count for the pitch.
Talanes 6y ago
"My second thought: I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear that the way his menu was set up on his website, Doordash had mistakenly taken the price for a plain cheese pizza and applied it to a 'specialty' pizza with a bunch of toppings."
kabacha 6y ago
Web-scraping is hard man, especially with mom-and-pop restaurant websites that are often exported straight from microsoft word or some ancient "platform" that got reconfigured 20 times over. As article pointed out it picked up full-toppings pizza as plain cheese.
- ramraj07 6y ago
  But they still paid full price to the restaurant! Someone in doordash knew the real price at some point then!
  - shiftpgdn 6y ago
    The full price was paid because a door dash card was used to pay for the order on pickup.
    - yreg 6y ago
      Which should have triggered some sanity check indicating that their scraped data is way off.
      - icebraining 6y ago
        Maybe there are so many triggers that they can't keep up.
      - sumedh 6y ago
        In the end you need someone to look at those alerts, maybe they just got missed.
      - Super_Jambo 6y ago
        They wanted high orders for the negotiation when getting a new restaurant signed up. "Hey in the last month we delivered X amount of your food! If we don't list you then you'll lose those sales."
- bvm 6y ago
  Surely it's cheaper to just pay someone to do data entry at that point.
  - free_rms 6y ago
    Cheaper, less sexy, and doesn't justify the jobs of several dozen engineers, a few managers and a director. If you're the director, which would you go for?

by bb611 6y ago

It doesn't fully explain why they priced a $24 pizza at $16. I wouldn't be surprised if they're subsidizing purchases, but just skipping fees doesn't explain that.

vkou 6y ago

They are taking a loss on every order, but they are hoping to make up for it with volume.

nelaboras 6y ago
You can't make up for it in volume if each order makes a loss and you get no benefit from having more orders (they still pay each time the full price to the restaurant!)
- shawabawa3 6y ago
  (that's the joke)

MattGaiser 6y ago

Lets them inflate the order count for the pitch.

Talanes 6y ago

"My second thought: I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear that the way his menu was set up on his website, Doordash had mistakenly taken the price for a plain cheese pizza and applied it to a 'specialty' pizza with a bunch of toppings."

kabacha 6y ago

Web-scraping is hard man, especially with mom-and-pop restaurant websites that are often exported straight from microsoft word or some ancient "platform" that got reconfigured 20 times over. As article pointed out it picked up full-toppings pizza as plain cheese.

ramraj07 6y ago
But they still paid full price to the restaurant! Someone in doordash knew the real price at some point then!
- shiftpgdn 6y ago
  The full price was paid because a door dash card was used to pay for the order on pickup.
  - yreg 6y ago
    Which should have triggered some sanity check indicating that their scraped data is way off.
    - icebraining 6y ago
      Maybe there are so many triggers that they can't keep up.
    - sumedh 6y ago
      In the end you need someone to look at those alerts, maybe they just got missed.
    - Super_Jambo 6y ago
      They wanted high orders for the negotiation when getting a new restaurant signed up. "Hey in the last month we delivered X amount of your food! If we don't list you then you'll lose those sales."
bvm 6y ago
Surely it's cheaper to just pay someone to do data entry at that point.
- free_rms 6y ago
  Cheaper, less sexy, and doesn't justify the jobs of several dozen engineers, a few managers and a director. If you're the director, which would you go for?