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I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of this, but according to this article [1], there are approximately 4 m
by Jemaclus 5y ago
I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of this, but according to this article [1], there are approximately 4 million house-bound Americans. This is effectively the lower-bound of the people who would almost certainly have to order delivery in order to eat food from a restaurant. Since they are house-bound, they literally cannot go pick up their food. There are other non-housebound people that would also rely on delivery for restaurant food, such as those without cars or those that are sick or (in the age of COVID) quarantining.
I'm not saying that DoorDash needs to change their model or anything to support these people, I'm just pointing out that while the rest of us have choices when it comes to how to get food from a restaurant, this cohort do not have much of a choice at all and therefore the fees from companies like DoorDash affect them quite heavily. It's effectively a housebound tax.
[1] https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1008 https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2014....