Well empirically, most restaurants (at least where i live) did not deliver at all or beyond the immediate vicinity or required an insane minimum order size to d

Well empirically, most restaurants (at least where i live) did not deliver at all or beyond the immediate vicinity or required an insane minimum order size to deliver before these apps came. Now i can get what i want affordably from the place I like without going to the restaurant. I also don't take up valuable table space so restaurants can serve in person traffic too - lunch and dinner traffic is as busy as ever and hasn't come down. What's happened (again where i live) is market has expanded. Gross margins on restaurants run typically higher than 70% to 80%. Your employee cost is usually fixed, so by even giving off some chunk of the gross margin to these middle men, they're growing revenue and profit. It's not a good idea to assume restaurant owners who sign ip to these apps are idiots. If their revenue and profit was not expanding, they wouldn't be still on the platforms