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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 g

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?
- astura 6y ago
  But that would that get VC funding? It's not their own money they are spending.
FireBeyond 6y ago
It could be so easy to game this. Table Column A, menu items, lowest to highest in cost. Table Column B, prices, highest to lowest in cost. Naive scraper associates rows as menu item and cost. You use CSS, etc., to rearrange things correctly. People looking at your site get info as intended, scrapers have problems, and it's only a dark pattern to them.