>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

>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. The missing piece here that makes the delivery work, is the VC funding. The apps are presently a net win for consumer and restaurant is because some SV VC fund is subsidizing the delivery. Maybe they'll be able to organize a mass delivery network with enough efficiency that it actually develops economies of scale and becomes self-sufficient. Or maybe they'll burn out like Groupon.