Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

  1. These apps are bleeding these businesses dry, $5 is not what's causing this when there's already massive amounts going to these delivery app companies.
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  2.  @JohnDavid-u8b  The usual way used to be to make it a flat fee, but limit the delivery area. Limiting the delivery area pretty much always makes sense because most food doesn't travel that well. Even just going a couple blocks is enough to make french fries cool enough to need to be reheated in the air fryer for crispiness.
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  3. Congratulations, you are part of the solution. Most people can't afford the cost of a restaurant and a driver and a 3rd party app to arrange that and have everybody making money.
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  4. You make it sound like that would make any difference. Housing is massively more expensive now than it was 30 years ago and wages haven't kept up with inflation in nearly 50 years at this point. Even if they do avoid those traps, it's still a lot harder.
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  5. People like my wife are lazy. We live like 3 blocks from a restaurant and she'll insist on having it delivered, even though it's a half mile there and back.
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  6. That's not how that worked. The point of the tax is to do something to try to reduce the exploitation. Either fund the drivers more, or encourage restaurants to bring the delivery service back inhouse and paid like a real employee. These businesses would have all gone out of business anyways. It's just a matter of time.
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  7. They aren't charging enough, the delivery apps take too much of the price and things are just going to get worse. If anything the fee killing sales probably is allowing these businesses to remain in business longer as the take from the app is massive.
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  8. Current restaurants don't necessarily get a choice about being listed. There's been a problem for years of the apps listing restaurants without permission or even the knowledge of the owner. I think it is better now, but particularly in the beginning restaurant owners wouldn't have any idea it was going on.
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  9. That's the thing, compared with the profits that these 3rd party apps are extracting, $5 is just not that much.
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  10. People were less lazy. Also the city council has been doing it's damndest to get people out of their cars, which makes it more of an issue to go and pick up the food.
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  11. They did, the delivery services lose massive amounts of money, the restaurants lose significant money being listed and the drivers don't make what they should. The only people that actually have been benefiting from this are the customers. The point of this is to get the 3rd parties out of it if they're not going to pay proper wages.
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