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> It's going to go on until someone finally decouples the delivery from the discovery of the restaurants. There's probably a business in setting up a really si
by postingawayonhn 6y ago
> It's going to go on until someone finally decouples the delivery from the discovery of the restaurants.
There's probably a business in setting up a really simple delivery network that just focuses on connecting delivery drivers/riders with restaurants. Restaurants could take orders on their website or whatever other platform they want and then send them to the delivery network.
- wenc 6y agoThere is. It's called Postmates, and from comments I read on delivery driver subreddits, of all the apps drivers hate this one the most for various reasons (doesn't pay well, poor coordination, etc.). Now Postmates uses an elastic workforce, so it's subject to the supply/demand constraints of driver availability. What if it were possible to hire an permanent workforce of delivery drivers to serve a restaurant cluster (say large ethnic neighborhoods)? Not all cities have restaurant clusters so this wouldn't work everywhere, but maybe with some tweaks it might.
- contravariant 6y agoI don't think the delivery part itself is the main problem, there's no inherent problems with restaurants needing a long term contract with delivery personel/companies, if they get unfair terms there are no real barriers for them to do their own delivery or go to someone else. However if their delivery isn't easily discoverable then this does hurt them, and unlike with simple delivery there's not too many options to make yourself discoverable when the de facto standard is run by a single company.