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Wonder is acquiring Grubhub

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146 points endtwist | 3 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.516s | source
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afavour ◴[13 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42129632[source]▶
Silly money, behaving stupidly.

I feel for the restaurant owners: not only were they forced into accepting the likes of Grubhub as a middle man, that same middleman now also owns restaurants that compete directly with them. If the restaurants have any power at all they should stop using Grubhub right now. I don’t know anyone still using it (which is crazy, Seamless used to dominate NYC).

I sincerely hope the entire thing burns to the ground. The last thing I need in my life is for all the restaurants in my neighbourhood to be soulless, VC operated chains.

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1. hinkley ◴[13 Nov 24 20:44 UTC] No.42129799[source]▶
Delivery should be done as a coop between local businesses. Always should have been that way.
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2. duxup ◴[13 Nov 24 20:49 UTC] No.42129857[source]▶
Restaurant business is so risky anyhow, managing a co-op too sounds like a big extra load to take on.
3. bunderbunder ◴[13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC] No.42129931[source]▶
Sometimes I miss when delivery meant either Chinese or pizza, and the businesses were specialized in that kind of work. Which meant it didn't cost an arm and a leg, and the whole system was vertically integrated in a way that gave your food a fighting chance of still being hot by the time it arrived.

Also the restaurants got a chance to teach their delivery staff how to properly handle the food. Which meant that the Chinese restaurants, for example, could get away with using oyster pails instead of having to resort to the "maximum packaging waste" option.