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Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by anigbrowl »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #37
gthtjtkt wrote: post #19

This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…

Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business? Yelp reviews are also intregal to the success of a restaurant and similar complaints are lobbed at them for destroying revenue at small companies. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that is poorly ranked on yelp? I have. They tend to deserve the poor ratings. This is a valuable service to the consumer…

Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business?

That's a false premise, which assumes any and all complaints are made in good faith. Some people are assholes and will leave a bad review because they disliked the person who delivered a meal or any number of other spurious reasons. You really sound like the sort of person who has never worked in any other field than IT and has a naive and largely illusory view of business conditions.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by Diederich »

rajathagasthya wrote: post #36

They advertise Bay Area as one of the regions they deliver, yet it's not available in the South Bay. I wonder what's the logistics overhead to make it available elsewhere in the Bay Area where you already have a Prime Now delivery network.

Seems to be available in Mountain View.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by uptown »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #37
gthtjtkt wrote: post #19

This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…

Is it such a bad thing for society if a business fails when transparency is added to how they conduct their business? Yelp reviews are also intregal to the success of a restaurant and similar complaints are lobbed at them for destroying revenue at small companies. Have you ever gone to a restaurant that is poorly ranked on yelp? I have. They tend to deserve the poor ratings. This is a valuable service to the consumer…

I'm not sure I want Yelp being the arbiter of factual information about restaurants:

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237102

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by JorgeGT »

jsheard wrote: post #30
chrisan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, I had never heard of it before. From the news[1] I saw it was new in a city dear to me. Mods can delete the post, my bad! [1]: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2016/12/15/...

Your post is currently #2 on the front page... apparently a lot of people had no idea this existed. Amazons marketing people have some explaining to do :)

I guess many people outside the US, like me, are discovering this. Which is understandable, given they have no reason to market this to me.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by koolba »

Pfhreak wrote: post #46
koolba wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Land vehicles do have a size advantage that can be used for en route baking: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-24/inside-si... I would really like to see the air delivery though. Maybe a calzone or stromboli would be more viable.

I believe the concept has been tested with burritos: http://www.darwinaerospace.com/burritobomber

What a wonderful future we live in!

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by danudey »

hkmurakami wrote: post #31
gthtjtkt wrote: post #19

This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…

This reminds me of the predicament that young'ish hardware component supplier companies get into. They win a huge contract with a prominent customer, but then that one customer represents 60%+ of their revenues (ex: winning a Cisco, Nintendo, or Apple contract). I've worked at a few such companies, and they all work extra hard trying to diversify their revenue sources, for both customers and industry. If it's a start…

The sapphire supplier is GTAT, and they were actually a sapphire glass manufacturing equipment manufacturer that Apple contracted to manufacture sapphire displays (a completely new business for them), then un-contracted afterwards, dropping their market cap from $1.5bn to $175m and shuttering three plants (whose workers Apple pledged to find new jobs for).

http://www.businessinsider.com/gt-advanced-files-for-bankrup...

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by dawnerd »

kldavenport wrote: post #4

So far it looks to have a better web and mobile interface than postmates and grubhub.

They also don't charge a ton in "service fees" and have inflated menu prices. Nothing but good experiences with Amazon delivering food (except this one time where the driver had never seen an apartment building before...)

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by anigbrowl »

adventured wrote: post #40
gthtjtkt wrote: post #19

This is kind of terrifying after hearing so many life-ruining stories about the rash decisions Amazon makes when dealing with 3rd party sellers ([1] from last week, for example). Everyone always says "Don't stake your livelihood on platforms you don't control" (e.g. Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but what happens when one of those platforms suddenly forces its way into your business? How can a restaurant owner tur…

It's not possible to operate an online business (any business?) without being dependent on a platform. There is no scenario under which you can build anything that functions as a serious revenue generating business without being in that position. Search discovery: Google, Bing Social promotion: FB, Snap, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc App & software stores: Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Steam General commerce: Tr…

Don't be obtuse. The grandparent poster was talking about the problem of being locked into an individual vendor's platform - a problem which does exist in many market sectors but can also be mitigated by the ancient strategy of not putting all your eggs in one basket [1]. Defining a problem out of existence is not really illuminating.

1. This is a metaphor, in case anyone else is feeling pedantic and wants to challenge the notion that eggs are commonly transported in baskets...

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by anigbrowl »

harigov wrote: post #58

This is a great opportunity for some restaurants to outsource cooking. Just provide a place for people to sit, eat and chat with some alcohol options. One can order food an hour before arriving and eat at the restaurant. The advantage is that folks can order from any number of cuisines. This can still be cost effective in the long run when kitchens can be bigger and in the outskirts and the premium place in the city…

Good luck telling table 12 they've got to wait because there's a traffic jam on the freeway, or that the drones are having a hard time with this northerly wind system.

Re: Amazon Restaurants

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Post by roflchoppa »

ryaneager wrote: post #12

I received a free $20 to Amazon Restaurants for buying something on cyber Wednesday, didn't know that was a thing until I received the email. I used it to order pizza from a local joint, because who doesn't like free pizza. Ordering was interesting, they didn't have the pizza I wanted listed under the pre-made options, so I had to make my own, but there was no option to do half and half and adding additional topping…

Ya, but at the same time, you have somewhat of an obligation to help the homies
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