Restaurants are barely surviving the pandemic. Delivery apps will kill them:
He posted an image of the invoice on Facebook, touching off a rebellion among disgruntled delivery service users and workers. A DoorDash driver posted a screen shot of the $4.75 fee the service had offered him to deliver an order 10 miles away. A pizzeria owner with his own fleet of delivery drivers posted a $41,230.47 invoice showing Grubhub taking a 27 percent cut — just for processing orders. And in the comments on another viral post about delivery apps, Collin Wallace, Grubhub’s former head of innovation, wrote that the platforms are “not actually in the business of delivery. They are in the business of finance. In many ways, they are like payday lenders for restaurants and drivers. They give you the sensation of cash-flow, but at the expense of your long term future and financial stability.â€
This is such Business 101 that it’s hard to believe that anyone would need to hear it, but here it goes: Never let anyone come between you and your customer. If you don’t “own†the customer, you’re easily replaced, with whatever you’re providing just another commodity.Â