DoorDash Buying Caviar from Square for $410M

Post by superfrank » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 11:21 PM UTC

subsaharancoder wrote: post #73

superfrank wrote: post #72

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Honestly, more than anything it's just user preference. There are some restaurants that are exclusive on certain platforms (UberEats for example is exclusive with McDonalds), so if you want that, there's only one game in town, but most people I know who use these platforms regularly (myself included) aren't using them for a specific restaurant. It's more like, "I want sushi! I wonder what is available on my platform…

The exclusive deal between UberEats and McDonalds is no more https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696711/mcdonalds-doorda...

Ah, I was unaware that that had changed

Post by therealx » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 4:27 AM UTC

notyourday wrote: post #158

mytailorisrich wrote: post #152

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A standard restaurant must be located where people will walk in. It must be pleasant premises for customers. If the target is to work only with Deliveroo or other delivery app then everything can be stripped apart from the kitchen and that kitchen can then be located where it's cheapest since no customers will ever walk in or even know where it is. That's not a scam. That's an adaptation, an optimisation for a specif…

That's how people who do not understand restaurant industry think of it. It is wrong. Restaurant wants to minimize dwell time, which is a time that the restaurant does not spend cooking food for a-la minute order. The closer the restaurant is to the customer, the smaller is the dwell time if the customer is always available. That's the reason why the restaurant wants to be where the customers are. Delivery-only resta…

Sounds like the aim of "Monday specials" and "Happy Hour" brought to digital age.

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