Food Delivery Apps

If you have restaurant or takeout place you need to pay for pest control, cleaning. You have to be in accessible part of the town. With delivery you don't need those.

Because there's more money to be made in a delivery service

Can't the company just deliver the food?

There is infinite competition for food delivery. People can just go pick up their own damn food.

Like food delivery? Isn’t the gig section sufficient

Food delivery makes more sense the more people do it. Imagine a situation where an entire street of houses orders delivery at the same time. One driver could make a few stops to pick up food and deliver it all at once. Far more efficient than each family driving to a restaurant separately. I wonder how one could structure incentives to encourage that sort of thing.

Yes, to those that don't have delivery options. What makes delivery organized by the restaurant more wasteful than the delivery by someone working for a gig-economy app?

Food delivery is practical, mainstream and has been for 40+ years in the West.It works great "inhouse". They tend to know all their regular customers and area and know exactly how to get there, where to park, which bell to press etc. They will also know if there is bad traffic or an accident closing a major road and adjust wait times and order frequency accordingly.The person that runs the delivery joint can also wait until he knows his/her driver will be making his w

This is about how delivery services screw over the restaurants. My advice is: to avoid screwing over restaurants, don't use delivery services.

Because people are more likely to just cook at home, if delivery weren't an option?