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by Eridrus 3178 days ago
Are you allowed to have higher prices on Seamless? That would seem to be a pretty straight forward method of not killing your margin.

I wonder if a restaurant association could take on the cost of building a competitor that could compete with Seamless; Especially if restaurants manage to convince the public that Seamless is as toxic as Uber, a solution to absolve people's guilt that is just one click away might be successful.

I say this because I hate having to get on the phone.

2 comments

I don’t know why you wouldn’t be allowed, other than Seamless may have a rule against it since it’s probably a better customer experience to see accurate prices. The margin problem can be handled with delivery charges or delivery minimums.
I use Foodler, which was recently acquired by GrubHub. Several restaurants near me charge a bit more on foodler than they normally do. I'm cool with that as I'd rather order from one of these services