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Door Dash/Seamless/Uber Eats, etc. have driven many low-priced restaurants out of business here in New York City many of which had long traditions of providing
by nobody9999 2y ago
Door Dash/Seamless/Uber Eats, etc. have driven many low-priced restaurants out of business here in New York City many of which had long traditions of providing delivery services for their food by inserting themselves as middlemen and taking all those restaurants' profits and more.
I realize that in many places, they provide services that never existed before, but here in NYC they've driven hundreds of wonderful mom and pop restaurants out of business while they lost billions.
Those entrepreneurs who ran successful businesses for decades were forced out of business, as their quality, inexpensive food (especially in an expensive place like NYC) only netted them 5-10% profits, which were more than eaten up by the 15-30% charged on every order.
I'd rather starve than give any of those jerks a nickel.
- lotsoweiners 2y agoI don’t understand what you are saying here. Are you saying that these “wonderful” restaurants were doing their own delivery until Uber eats etc came along? If so, why couldn’t they just continue with what they had been doing? > Those entrepreneurs who ran successful businesses for decades were forced out of business If you can’t adapt to a changing market then you may not be much of an entrepreneur. Regardless, I’m not sure how much delivery services affected these businesses vs “the rent is too high”.