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At home in front of the television while scrolling their phone

inglor_cz 1y ago
This unfortunately sounds like where the trend has been going at least since Covid. People started treating "meeting other people in person" as a tiresome chore, and the world is adapting to that change.
- Animats 1y ago
  Very true. Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business.
  - nobody9999 1y ago
    >Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business. Because DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats/etc. charge the restaurants more than their gross margins. In such an anvironment, unless a restaurant raises prices 25-30%, they're eventually going out of business. I'd say that these companies are most certainly not providing 25-30% value add. Rather, it's just leeching off restaurants and their customers. It's disgusting and has killed many, many restaurants where I live (NYC), even though we already had a culture of delivery before these parasites came along. And more's the pity.
  - sitkack 1y ago
    I was amazed at how good and cheap the food was in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. That is a bummer.
  - rambambram 1y ago
    Super off topic, but I'm going to borrow "kabob"! Sounds even better than 'kebab'.
- Spivak 1y ago
  You're implying that food delivery is antithetical to seeing your friends in person. We have people over and then order food all the time.
  - inglor_cz 1y ago
    It is not completely antithetical, but I would bet on a fairly significant correlation between those two.
- pests 1y ago
  > “meeting other people in person” as a tiresome chore. Someone linked the short story The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster the other day where this is an element. A character makes a big deal of having to meet her son in person, opposed of through the machine. Written in the 20s, gets a lot of things uncannily correct for a society 100 years later. Video calling, silence/do not disturb mode, notifications, air conditioning, people no longer wanting to look at real things with their eyes, etc.
  - bombcar 1y ago
    https://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ https://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ

This unfortunately sounds like where the trend has been going at least since Covid. People started treating "meeting other people in person" as a tiresome chore, and the world is adapting to that change.

Animats 1y ago
Very true. Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business.
- nobody9999 1y ago
  >Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business. Because DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats/etc. charge the restaurants more than their gross margins. In such an anvironment, unless a restaurant raises prices 25-30%, they're eventually going out of business. I'd say that these companies are most certainly not providing 25-30% value add. Rather, it's just leeching off restaurants and their customers. It's disgusting and has killed many, many restaurants where I live (NYC), even though we already had a culture of delivery before these parasites came along. And more's the pity.
- sitkack 1y ago
  I was amazed at how good and cheap the food was in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. That is a bummer.
- rambambram 1y ago
  Super off topic, but I'm going to borrow "kabob"! Sounds even better than 'kebab'.
Spivak 1y ago
You're implying that food delivery is antithetical to seeing your friends in person. We have people over and then order food all the time.
- inglor_cz 1y ago
  It is not completely antithetical, but I would bet on a fairly significant correlation between those two.
pests 1y ago
> “meeting other people in person” as a tiresome chore. Someone linked the short story The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster the other day where this is an element. A character makes a big deal of having to meet her son in person, opposed of through the machine. Written in the 20s, gets a lot of things uncannily correct for a society 100 years later. Video calling, silence/do not disturb mode, notifications, air conditioning, people no longer wanting to look at real things with their eyes, etc.
- bombcar 1y ago
  https://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ https://youtu.be/dhQW0ufJRBQ