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How restaurants suffered? I mean if restaurants were so unable to cooperate to set up their own delivery service to compete against the VC funded ones, then the
by pas 6y ago
How restaurants suffered? I mean if restaurants were so unable to cooperate to set up their own delivery service to compete against the VC funded ones, then they were already well destined to go out of business.
(And I'm not saying the state shouldn't step in, because these are the typical pathological market states that need some intervention.)
- colinmhayes 6y agoDelivery services have monopolized many peoples restaurant ordering habits. Many restaurants have their own delivery service, but people don't use it because they order from grubhub/doordash/uber eats instead. If the restaurants take themselves off the services people don't order from them anymore.
- pas 6y agoSo it turns people value UX and simplicity than restaurant diversity. And I'm not exactly blaming them. Restaurants' own ordering/delivery systems all usually suck.
- luckylion 6y agoPeople value TV ads and newspaper articles/PR, and they value new things.
- Spooky23 6y agoIs that really true everywhere? Where I live, we have these services, but I don’t see huge push of Grubhub/DoorDash/Uber. If anything, restaurants are all setting up their own ordering platforms.