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I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop https://radish.coop. It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is o
by Gaessaki 6y ago
I’m working on a restaurant delivery cooperative: https://radish.coop https://radish.coop. It’s basically like the other delivery platforms, except that it is owned by its users (so restaurants, employees and consumers) which vote on its direction and partake in its proceeds. I’m a restaurant owner/programmer who felt that things could be done more equitably and feared that the continued dominance of the current crop of platforms would lead to a quasi-monopolistic/monopsonic situation like for Uber and the taxi industry and Amazon in e-commerce.
Late 2019, some colleagues and I quit our jobs to move onto other endeavours with this as a side-project and since then it’s become a full time gig.
- shiftingleft 6y agoThis is a great idea. I hope you can win many restaurants to join this endeavor.
- humbleMouse 6y agoIm working on a very similar idea.
- berkes 6y agoI've seen several of them in Europe. Both in media and IRL. Knowing some people who work at a local one, all I can say, is that this quite certainly is the road to the future. For one, because unions and govts are pushing down to delivery services that pretend to have "freelancers" working for them, but really just offload costs (social fees, insurance, taxes) to underpayed workers. A model where all the employees are actual entrepeneurs, and not just on paper will work much better here. And second, because delivery is a rapidly growing niche in itself. So even if coops take only 2%, it is a rapidly growing 2%.
- robbiejs 6y agoGreat idea, best of luck! We need more community based thinking in our modern lives.