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> If you look at pre-UberEats times, each restaurant employed a couple of delivery drivers on scooters. This was not my experience. Hardly any restaurants had

by sumeno 1y ago

> If you look at pre-UberEats times, each restaurant employed a couple of delivery drivers on scooters. This was not my experience. Hardly any restaurants had delivery other than pizza. > If delivery is more expensive, more inconvenient and often slower now than before 2015, what 'real value' was added? More expensive maybe, but I strongly disagree that it's more inconvenient or slower.

thaumasiotes 1y ago
>> If you look at pre-UberEats times, each restaurant employed a couple of delivery drivers on scooters. > This was not my experience. Hardly any restaurants had delivery other than pizza. Your parent commenter appears to be European. Europe enjoys better city living in many ways than the United States does because the US is relatively underpopulated. (On the other hand, urban Americans have much larger homes.)
- mcv 1y ago
  I live in Netherland, and here UberEats was a latecomer to what Thuisbezorgd had been doing for ages, but other than that it rings true. Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian. Since Thuisbezorgd we can get any cuisine you can imagine delivered to your door. But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually), and I think even now that might still be more takeaway than delivery.
  - jorvi 1y ago
    > Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian. > But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually), Well, those and things like spareribs, burgers, kapsalon, etc., which makes it a rather broad spectrum of takeaways that already had delivery. In case you didn't know, Takeaway = Thuisbezorgd (or rather, the other way around). And in the 2010s, Thuisbezorgd and Just Eat had a pretty active fight for marketshare, until they decided the most profitable course of action was for Just Eat to operate in the countries where it held a majority marketshare, and Takeaway to do likewise, creating regional monopolies. Later on they merged, which any sane regulatory agency would have blocked. What is interesting is that UberEats hasn't tried to compete on price at all. They charge similar, semi-extortionate prices. They just offer delivery from more and more upscale places.

by sumeno 1y ago

thaumasiotes 1y ago

>> If you look at pre-UberEats times, each restaurant employed a couple of delivery drivers on scooters. > This was not my experience. Hardly any restaurants had delivery other than pizza. Your parent commenter appears to be European. Europe enjoys better city living in many ways than the United States does because the US is relatively underpopulated. (On the other hand, urban Americans have much larger homes.)

mcv 1y ago
I live in Netherland, and here UberEats was a latecomer to what Thuisbezorgd had been doing for ages, but other than that it rings true. Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian. Since Thuisbezorgd we can get any cuisine you can imagine delivered to your door. But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually), and I think even now that might still be more takeaway than delivery.
- jorvi 1y ago
  > Before Thuisbezorgd, it was mostly just pizza that got delivered. Maybe also other Italian food, and maybe a little bit of Asian. > But the standard Dutch takeaway food has always been Chinese (Dutch Chinese-Indonesian, actually), Well, those and things like spareribs, burgers, kapsalon, etc., which makes it a rather broad spectrum of takeaways that already had delivery. In case you didn't know, Takeaway = Thuisbezorgd (or rather, the other way around). And in the 2010s, Thuisbezorgd and Just Eat had a pretty active fight for marketshare, until they decided the most profitable course of action was for Just Eat to operate in the countries where it held a majority marketshare, and Takeaway to do likewise, creating regional monopolies. Later on they merged, which any sane regulatory agency would have blocked. What is interesting is that UberEats hasn't tried to compete on price at all. They charge similar, semi-extortionate prices. They just offer delivery from more and more upscale places.