Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "New Law Cracks Down on Food Delivery Apps" video.

This is precisely the sort of thing that trademarks and service marks are intended to prevent. Unfortunately, it does require an attorney and a letter really at minimum and possibly a lawsuit if they don't want to. (Yes, the lawyer is not technically required, but a scary letter about a real problem with real willingness to start filing court papers works a lot better than random businesses doing it)
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@boneless8473 The same way most other companies do it. You go to the lab, fill out the paperwork show your ID and they give you a receipt that you had the work done. They then report whatever their results are to the business. I'm not the biggest fan of drug testing, but if you're going to be driving as a part of your job, I'm less opposed to it. I'm not sure about the others, but lab corp has a ton of locations and I'd wager that there are other companies that do the same thing.
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There shouldn't be any visible tips ahead of time. The service should properly compensate the drivers. I definitely miss the days where a flat $2 tip covered most pizza deliveries with more only really being required if it was an unusually large order or more inconvenient than usual.
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@k.o.h3599 And that's something that really should be fixed. Tips should be gratuities for service rendered somewhere between good and amazing. The customer shouldn't be in the position where they have to tip or the driver might not have a decent hourly wage as a result.
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It's usually already a violation of the restaurant's trademarks when they do it, the problem is that the enforcement is typically civil which requires the restaurant to hire an attorney to handle the enforcement. That being said, it probably should be considered fraud as well if the customers are being led to believe that the food costs what they say it does and that the delivery app has permission to provide the service.
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The insane bit about that is how little of that markup probably goes to the driver. These sorts of services are a lot more expensive to offer than one might expect. Even at minimum wage, it probably costs the business somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 an hour just to have somebody to drive the order out. And there's a pretty decent chance that there will be downtime in the middle as well.
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@dizzy_derps I A lot of takeout focused restaurants will have an employee that's doing things like answering phones drive the food out while somebody else mans the phone until their back. It's probably the only reason why they can offer delivery for free or so cheep. Also, some of that cost is probably just baked into their prices as it is usually a big part of their business and how they can save money by having a much smaller restaurant.
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@joshriver75 Depending upon the specifics, $5 might be something in the neighborhood of what the service costs to provide. Just because it's a $10 order doesn't mean that the cost of delivering is any less than if it was a similarly sized $100 order with the same distance to deliver.
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@random832 Not when they're passing the site off as belonging to the owner it's not. Using it in the nominative sense is one thing, using it in a way that implies they have a business relationship with the restaurant is an entirely different matter.
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