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We had ubiquitous fast and free local restaurant delivery in NYC for decades before these apps showed up. Before cell phones even. Every hallway had a pile of
by CPLX 3y ago
We had ubiquitous fast and free local restaurant delivery in NYC for decades before these apps showed up. Before cell phones even.
Every hallway had a pile of menus. It’s not really better now and killing these apps wouldn’t make it worse.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> not really better now Discoverability is better. There may be a niche for a non-profit app that identifies local restaurants with free delivery. A virtual hallway pile.
- CPLX 3y agoYeah we have the internet now obviously. That’s orthogonal to having actual third party services delivering the food or taking a cut.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> we have the internet now obviously. That’s orthogonal to having actual third party services delivering the food or taking a cut I don’t think local restaurant discovery, in the context of delivery, is a remotely solved problem outside the food-delivery apps.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThat's nice, but the suburbs never had that unless you're ordering pizza or maybe Chinese food. A single restaurant needs a lot of volume to hire its own full-time driver. Amortizing a driver sitting on his couch to come to any restaurant in the area was a big change.
- CPLX 3y agoThis article is about a dispute between these companies and New York City.