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I wonder if the problem is that they're trying to coordinate/optimize drivers and routes after the orders have been placed. What if they tried to coordinate be
by gnicholas 2y ago
I wonder if the problem is that they're trying to coordinate/optimize drivers and routes after the orders have been placed.
What if they tried to coordinate before the order was placed? There have been many days where I would have been happy to eat food from one of 10 different places, and we picked a restaurant more or less at random.
If a platform could coordinate my choice with the choice of 4 very close by neighbors, then they could send one driver to pick up maybe $300-500 of orders ($60-100 food per household) and give us some sort of discount.
I would actually allow notifications from an app that sometimes messaged me to say "several of your neighbors have ordered from X Restaurant, which you've liked in the past. Do you want to order also, for a 10% discount?".
Of course, if they bullshitted and tried to fake-it-till-you-make-it with the order momentum (telling 50 neighbors that several already ordered), that would be annoying and potentially fraudulent. But I would be happy to see a competitor arise and shift the coordination from delivery to ordering. It could make the business model work much better, and would also cut down on travel time, food sogginess, etc.
- gruez 2y ago>There have been many days where I would have been happy to eat food from one of 10 different places, and we picked one more or less at random. That seems like a nightmare. I sure don't want to go through the trouble of making 10 different orders just to save 10%. If I wanted to jump through that many hoops I'd pick it up myself.
- gnicholas 2y agoAs another commenter said, I wouldn’t make different orders. I’d just pick a restaurant based on what other neighbors have picked, and be content with whatever it is.
- doctor_eval 2y ago> That seems like a nightmare. I sure don't want to go through the trouble of making 10 different orders just to save 10%. If I wanted to jump through that many hoops I'd pick it up myself. I believe GP is saying they don’t care which of the 10 restaurants they place their single order, and if they knew which one would deliver most efficiently, they would choose it.