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At least for pizza delivery, restaurants used to have their own drivers. When it was slow, drivers would fold boxes, grate cheese, wash dishes, etc. There was

by b112 3y ago

At least for pizza delivery, restaurants used to have their own drivers. When it was slow, drivers would fold boxes, grate cheese, wash dishes, etc. There was always something to do, and the pizza place did fine paying a wage + delivery fee (for gas). I don't see the advantage of external delivery companies, at least for a pizza place.

kognate 3y ago
For pizza places the benefit is risk reduction and insurance cost savings. Drivers who get into accidents are a huge liability, but through risk-laundering of external drivers that all goes away.
- b112 3y ago
  Yet I worked at 10 pizza places during high school, and college, and not a single place cared. You brought your own car. And there are still many places that do this.
fragmede 3y ago
for the pizza place that's already doing it, there isn't one. but for all the other restaurants in the area, the Chinese place, the Thai place, the sushi place, it doesn't make sense for each of them to have their own drivers who then sit idle waiting for customers to want that specific cuisine when the driver could be busy driving food around, regardless of the restaurant. Seems more efficient to me, but I'm not a pizza place.
jerlam 3y ago
In California, when fast food employees were given a $20 minimum wage, the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off: https://abc7.com/pizza-hut-layoffs-california-delivery-drivers-fast-food-minimum-wage/14229041/ https://abc7.com/pizza-hut-layoffs-california-delivery-drive...
- b112 3y ago
  the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off No. You're being wildly, extremely inaccurate. The article says "two Pizza Hut franchises" plan to. * These franchises are corporate owners of some Pizza Hit restaurants, a specific brand, not all Pizza Hut restaurants * these restaurants are only in one part of California * Pizza Hut is only a tiny, small percentage of all pizza companies in California How did you get "all" from the cited article, which states "some restaurants of a specific brand"? I doubt this number even equals 1% of all pizza places in all of California. Please be accurate.

by b112 3y ago

kognate 3y ago

For pizza places the benefit is risk reduction and insurance cost savings. Drivers who get into accidents are a huge liability, but through risk-laundering of external drivers that all goes away.

b112 3y ago
Yet I worked at 10 pizza places during high school, and college, and not a single place cared. You brought your own car. And there are still many places that do this.

fragmede 3y ago

for the pizza place that's already doing it, there isn't one. but for all the other restaurants in the area, the Chinese place, the Thai place, the sushi place, it doesn't make sense for each of them to have their own drivers who then sit idle waiting for customers to want that specific cuisine when the driver could be busy driving food around, regardless of the restaurant. Seems more efficient to me, but I'm not a pizza place.

jerlam 3y ago

In California, when fast food employees were given a $20 minimum wage, the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off: https://abc7.com/pizza-hut-layoffs-california-delivery-drivers-fast-food-minimum-wage/14229041/ https://abc7.com/pizza-hut-layoffs-california-delivery-drive...

b112 3y ago
the pizza delivery drivers were all laid off No. You're being wildly, extremely inaccurate. The article says "two Pizza Hut franchises" plan to. * These franchises are corporate owners of some Pizza Hit restaurants, a specific brand, not all Pizza Hut restaurants * these restaurants are only in one part of California * Pizza Hut is only a tiny, small percentage of all pizza companies in California How did you get "all" from the cited article, which states "some restaurants of a specific brand"? I doubt this number even equals 1% of all pizza places in all of California. Please be accurate.