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Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by m-p-3 »

derision wrote: post #9
justanotherc wrote: post #7

This is why I have never ordered UberEats. Plus cold McDonalds is gross. Its not hard to order takeout and run down the road myself. To be honest I don't really get why this whole trend is so popular.

People are increasingly more lazy

Or increasingly run out of time.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by wil421 »

phillipseamore wrote: post #2

Completely ignores cost of travel and value of time. Factor that in and the additional cost is either comparable or less.

If you had to drive 30 mins round trip in the largest truck with the worst MPGs, you still wouldn’t be anywhere close to 90% of the meal.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by Spivak »

atonse wrote: post #4

And they don’t factor the harm caused to restaurant margins when these apps take 30%. But the convenience os hard to beat when you don’t want to take a long break.

I feel like it’s weird that the article doesn’t mention this. Restaurants feel pressured to be on these apps so they just up their prices to make the 30% cut worth it and users just blame the app for the price discrepancy rather than the restaurant.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by ses1984 »

wil421 wrote: post #12
phillipseamore wrote: post #2

Completely ignores cost of travel and value of time. Factor that in and the additional cost is either comparable or less.

If you had to drive 30 mins round trip in the largest truck with the worst MPGs, you still wouldn’t be anywhere close to 90% of the meal.

Time is scarce.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by chooseaname »

ses1984 wrote: post #15
wil421 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you had to drive 30 mins round trip in the largest truck with the worst MPGs, you still wouldn’t be anywhere close to 90% of the meal.

Time is scarce.

Only when mismanaged.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

phillipseamore wrote: post #2

Completely ignores cost of travel and value of time. Factor that in and the additional cost is either comparable or less.

citation? Any facts to support that?

Because the article addresses exactly those issues.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by spurdoman77 »

bakuninsbart wrote: post #10
justanotherc wrote: post #7

This is why I have never ordered UberEats. Plus cold McDonalds is gross. Its not hard to order takeout and run down the road myself. To be honest I don't really get why this whole trend is so popular.

If it saves me half an hour, it might be worth 5$,

Half an hour might be more than $50 for many people.

Re: Meals on food delivery apps can be 90% more than if bought from the restaurant

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Post by eugeniub »

AndrewDucker wrote: post #14

Well, yes. If you get someone to individually drive something cheap to your home then the cost of the delivery can be a large chunk of the final cost. I don't know why people would be surprised by that.

Did you read the article? Much of the markup comes from restaurants charging higher prices for the same items if they are delivered.
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