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WHat if the delivery person that grubhub uses is useless and the regular delivery person that Restaurant X uses isn't. YOu can end up getting poorly delivered
by LandR 6y ago
WHat if the delivery person that grubhub uses is useless and the regular delivery person that Restaurant X uses isn't.
YOu can end up getting poorly delivered cold food from GrubHub and make restaurant X look bad.
Restaurant X might end up having a load of disappointed customers, reduced custom and have no idea why. They dont know there is actually now a middle man they didn't agree to between them and their customer.
- chrisseaton 6y agoYou’re attacking the first sale doctrine here though if you think about it!
- tartoran 6y agoWe're talking about cooked food here though, not sure if it applies
- chrisseaton 6y agoWell I think first sale is IP so I didn’t mean it literally but I don’t get why anyone would be advocating for allowing manufacturers to be able to control what you can do with your property. When it’s Apple suddenly everyone argues the opposite!
- edmundsauto 6y agoFirst off, food is different than technology. There are safety issues that are regulated differently. Can you think of any instances in the prepared food space that support your argument? Second, I think the impersonation is the biggest issue. At a minimum, that sounds like trademark infringement; at maximum, that sounds fradulent. IANAL and am just a dog on the internet, so grains of salt the size of Jupiter. But I don't think the comparison to non-prepared food industries are at all relevant.
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- icebraining 6y agoFirst-sale doctrine doesn't allow you to impersonate other companies. Nobody is saying Grubhub can't resell meals, they just have to be clear it's them who are doing the selling.
- vageli 6y ago> You’re attacking the first sale doctrine here though if you think about it! I can sell a Mac but can't hold myself out as a representative of Apple.