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Wonder is acquiring Grubhub

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bsimpson ◴[] No.42129006[source]
Those weird ghost kitchen things have more than half a billion dollars to spend on acquisitions?!

I wonder how this came to be - did they already have that big of a war chest, or did they hear they could buy a name brand and go back to their investors to finance it?

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JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.42129215[source]
I’ll look up the addresses of restaurants on Uber Eats, using street view, before ordering. Most of them are at bodegas or otherwise non-restaurant spaces.
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Gormo ◴[] No.42130252[source]
I recently saw a new burger joint pop up on Uber Eats with an address not far from my home. It turned out to be the address of the last remaining Ruby Tuesday restaurant in my area, but the burger place did not advertise any connection to Ruby Tuesday. Seemed very sketchy to me.
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1. carabiner ◴[] No.42131268{3}[source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_restaurant

Also chuck e cheese, tgi fridays run these.

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2. jjeaff ◴[] No.42133771[source]
Denny's has two or three different brands they will advertise as different restaurants in a single area.