3 ms·

Restaurants have been able to provide delivery long before a VC intermediary was involved. I honestly prefer the in house delivery guy.

cvalka 3y ago
Oh, yes, taxis existed before Uber and other great hits.
- stcroixx 3y ago
  I’d go back to taxis in a heartbeat.
  - bobthepanda 3y ago
    Yeah, where I live the taxi is a flat rate $40 to downtown from the airport vs $100-150 on rideshare.
  - 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
    Occasionally Uber is cheaper than a taxi. But sometimes it’s also not. Occasionally Uber is more convenient depending where you are. But Uber isn’t some super amazing thing. It’s a taxi service with an app. Uber eats is barely worth it in Sydney. I don’t save any time using it. So unless I get a coupon I never use it.
  - cvalka 3y ago
    They mostly sucked. The waiting time sucked, the service sucked(there was no reputation for each individual driver), in a lot of places it was a cartel artificially limiting the number of drivers. The existence of Uber/Lyft is a great benefit to the consumer.
    - stcroixx 3y ago
      Not for me. Close to zero wait time in their heyday in Chicago. Drivers were the same people. By law they could not refuse a ride and they actually respected the law unlike these companies whose business model depends on ignoring laws. Uber and Lyft just made them slower and more expensive.
- heavyset_go 3y ago
  Delivery apps can exist without GrubHub just like taxi apps exist without Uber.
rhaway84773 3y ago
I remember some food delivery app’s ad during the NBA playoffs, and the whole thing was about how the guy would always order a pizza before his game because he had formed a good luck ritual with the delivery guy. And the first, most obvious thing that struck me was that delivery apps make this impossible, since they assign random delivery guys every time! The pre-delivery middleman days of restaurants employing their own delivery people was when this could actually have worked.

cvalka 3y ago

Oh, yes, taxis existed before Uber and other great hits.

stcroixx 3y ago
I’d go back to taxis in a heartbeat.
- bobthepanda 3y ago
  Yeah, where I live the taxi is a flat rate $40 to downtown from the airport vs $100-150 on rideshare.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
  Occasionally Uber is cheaper than a taxi. But sometimes it’s also not. Occasionally Uber is more convenient depending where you are. But Uber isn’t some super amazing thing. It’s a taxi service with an app. Uber eats is barely worth it in Sydney. I don’t save any time using it. So unless I get a coupon I never use it.
- cvalka 3y ago
  They mostly sucked. The waiting time sucked, the service sucked(there was no reputation for each individual driver), in a lot of places it was a cartel artificially limiting the number of drivers. The existence of Uber/Lyft is a great benefit to the consumer.
  - stcroixx 3y ago
    Not for me. Close to zero wait time in their heyday in Chicago. Drivers were the same people. By law they could not refuse a ride and they actually respected the law unlike these companies whose business model depends on ignoring laws. Uber and Lyft just made them slower and more expensive.
heavyset_go 3y ago
Delivery apps can exist without GrubHub just like taxi apps exist without Uber.

rhaway84773 3y ago

I remember some food delivery app’s ad during the NBA playoffs, and the whole thing was about how the guy would always order a pizza before his game because he had formed a good luck ritual with the delivery guy. And the first, most obvious thing that struck me was that delivery apps make this impossible, since they assign random delivery guys every time! The pre-delivery middleman days of restaurants employing their own delivery people was when this could actually have worked.