Portland approves 10% cap on fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants

Post by scarface74 » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 10:51 PM UTC

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Don't you see? My time is too valuable to do anything vaguely unpleasant. The entire economy would suffer if I had to pick up my own food.

I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but yes - that's spot on. It's exactly that kind of attitude I've seen far too often in the culture of well-paid tech workers. Their lives are all about optimization of time resources / time management, and everyone should bow to their needs - if it results in them shaving off some minutes here and there. After all, they're making $300k/year working on important products,…

Post by paulcole » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

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Why would you tip the restaurant staff?

Because tipping restaurant staff is what normal people do when they go out to restaurants in the U.S. Those same people still prepare and package the food, even when someone else delivers it.

Post by andrewla » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 11:12 PM UTC

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> It is more efficient to put in place industry specific rules which then can be enforced with much simpler reasoning. I could not disagree more strongly. If you could point me to a rule that meets these criteria I'd love to see them -- all the rules that I've had to deal with in my professional life have been contrived to benefit the small number of companies actually capable of complying with them, rather than supp…

Rules e.g. establish markets and enable competition: Standard screws or standard contracts. The absence of basic rules like disclosure of service prices is doubling the cost of US health care. Other rules force the airlines to compete on services and price but not on safety.

Post by kerkeslager » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

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This is the right move - local restaurants are hurting and, sadly, the internet is a place where big corps with large budgets have leverage over passionate little guys working their butts off. For those who want to help, I built a chrome extension similar to Honey that shows a local restaurant's direct ordering website as you're about to order from that restaurant thru a third party service. If direct ordering isn't…

This is absolutely not the right move. This is you self promoting your app. Restaurants will pay more to market themselves, hire delivery drivers, and manage the logistics. Local restaurants are hurting because of COVID. They are blaming the delivery services, whose proprietary tech, marketing spend, logistics services are the only reason 90% could maintain any revenue stream.

Post by obibring » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 11:27 PM UTC

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When I order delivery from a restaurant, an employee (maybe the owner’s kid) comes and delivers the food directly to my house when it’s done. It‘s generally faster than the app model where you need to wait for the driver to go to the restaurant to pick up the food, then come to your house while possibly stopping at other restaurants and/or houses on the way. I could see how the restaurant delivery would be worse if t…

Restaurant deliver can be worse when the driver is overloaded and your food sits at the restaurant waiting for them to pick it up, or when the driver picks up multiple orders at once (likely) and yours is delayed or is last to be dropped off.