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>send info to a restaurant to keep your food hot I'm not sure what exactly you think restaurants can do with that request. A small subset of places will have a

• londons_explore 6y ago
  "This food will be ready to collect at 17:35 and 45 seconds, and if it isn't, we wont be paying you". Restaurants would soon figure out how to use a couple of timers to get every order done on time. There could also be a deeper integration to ensure that, for example, there are no more than 3 orders worth of fries being cooked at once, or no more than 2 pickups per minute scheduled, to avoid overloading that part of the kitchen.
  • Talanes 6y ago
    Have you ever worked in a restaurant? What you're describing would be a massive undertaking to manage with just a single corporate partner, much less with a collection of independent and small chain restaurants.
    • WrtCdEvrydy 6y ago
      Once you own the delivery space, you can crush restaurants into submission just like the darlings of the tech space have done: Apple, Google, Amazon.
      • leereeves 6y ago
        If you force restaurants to optimize everything for timing, you'll end up delivering food on par with McDonalds. And if it turns out customers are willing to pay restaurant prices for McDonalds quality delivery, then McDonalds themselves will start a delivery service to compete with you.