| > They can, and they do. One way some chains achieve this is by raising prices vs. in-store. By offsetting the cost, the economics makes more sense. That's not allowed by the contracts. In either event 50 location chain is HUGE. Olive Garden has less than 1000 stores nationally. If you have 50 stores your chain is in the real estate business and it happened to have food as an additional line item. > I also know of a NYC deli with one location that runs at ~15-17 comm. Its about volume. You can negotiate anything with high enough vol. Unless you happen to own that deli I'm going to tell you that you are being lied to. No one does enough volume to do it. > Not sure what you meant by "creative lie by omission" or if you were referring to what I said Something else is padded. Delivery services won't make any money off the 10% commission. > Also, Shake Shack has only recently started going into delivery (check their latest 10-K) they are fledglings going from their own platform (OLO) to working w/Caviar/Dash/etc. The argument was that USG type companies only do full service restaurants. That's simply not the case. > Again, successful, but not a barometer. It is because it has been around longer than most of the startups in the delivery space, not to mention vendors to the startups in the delivery space that do not have actual restaurants. |