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by iphone_elegance 2238 days ago
It's funny, when I was a teenager I delivered Pizzas for a small local chain.

I'm pretty sure I made more money and service was faster; the delivery fees would a lot cheaper (though hard to mentally adjust with inflation in mind though)

Like I'd just relax at the restaurant, chat with the other drivers/cooks/servers until 3-4 orders were up and head out.. it was pretty nice

Now instead of things being mostly locally owned it's all consolidated, impersonal (I got to know the managers, the owner, other workers, slower and much more expensive.

prices are also so high I can barely leave a 'great' tip

it's hard for me to think of the most of these delivery companies as anything but vultures that just ended up injecting themselves into a business and reduce the quality of some folks working lives

a big part of me wouldn't mind some economic upheaval just to undo our mistakes