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The point is that even good restaurants operate on margins that can't afford places like doordash to take 10-20%. Diners expect what's offered to them in the ma
by Traster 6y ago
The point is that even good restaurants operate on margins that can't afford places like doordash to take 10-20%. Diners expect what's offered to them in the market, and if doordash is offering me your restaurant quality food delivered to my door for $2 then that's the value. It doesn't matter to the customer that it's the result of several billion dollars of venture capital with the expectation that to make that investment worth while the entire western world would need to become indentured servants.
- legerdemain 6y agoSure, so diners should look at Doordash, see that all that's available at a sustainable price is Taco Bell, and decide whether they want Taco Bell or not. Restaurants that can't afford to be on the platform shouldn't be on the platform. Also, it doesn't cost a billion dollars to open a restaurant. Restaurants are wasteful, but not that wasteful. And diners don't care how much your restaurant cost you to open, or that you had to get venture capital to do it.