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Originally Posted by PhotoJim
Some places are more efficient at controlling costs than others.
Restaurants can afford meal delivery services, if they have sufficient margins. If they don't... they can't. It's that simple.
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No, it isn’t that simple. We cannot let our communities be reduced to a brutal competition to the bottom where only the strongest survive. That’s how we end up with McDonalds and Boston Pizza becoming the only restaurants that are able to survive in the end. Who the hell wants that?
You might be surprised to learn how many restaurants are against these apps, especially the ones that are forced to used them. What these apps are doing is capturing a market with their massive amount of venture capital allowing them to operate at below cost, destroying most competition, and forcing everyone on to their not-at-all-innovative platform, which they can then charge obscene rents to use. Funny how cheap things seem to the end-user when you don’t have to actually have a responsibility to pay your workers a livable wage with benefits (these apps only exist by their ability to exploit labour - Foodora shut down in Canada when their workers in Toronto voted to unionize, while one of Uber’s explicitly stated risks to their business model is their obligations to treat their “contractors” as workers). The problem is, the chickens will eventually come home to roost, despite everyone who loves these apps thinking there’s no way they will be brought down in this race too.
Going forward, I will choose to support restaurants who are still managing to avoid being sucked into the black hole that the gig economy is creating, which just so happens to be some of the best restaurants out there (the Cure and Caraway Grill come to mind).
Edit: turns out The Cure is using Uber Eats, out of necessity, but you can still bypass the app and order directly from the kitchen. Sometimes doing the right thing means doing things a little less conveniently..