> I have no idea how DD continues to lose money with this business model. Many years ago when I was living in Rochester, NY as a student there was a service ca

> I have no idea how DD continues to lose money with this business model. Many years ago when I was living in Rochester, NY as a student there was a service called “Rochester Delivers” which was essentially DoorDash without internet. They printed a big book compiling all the restaurant menus and you ordered over the phone. The price adder was always too much for a poor student like me, but I figured they probably were raking it in from the slightly richer folks. Fast forward many years, and I mention to one of my good friends this pre-DoorDash service. Turns out he was actually the one running it. I knew he’d lived in Rochester around the same time I had, but hadn’t known him back then and had no idea. He said the entire thing was a disaster, impossible to make money, and it basically drained all his savings trying to keep it afloat.