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Food delivery is simply a terrible business. People must have seen how much waiters on wheels charges, and how much pizza places charge and said if we get costs down to pizza delivery and charge less than waiters on wheels, we'll make a bunch of money.

The problem is restaurants with enough delivery volume to justify their own delivery service can send a driver out with several orders, and can schedule the next round of orders to be ready just as the driver gets back. That's hard to do in the order whatever from wherever model, and one order per delivery run ends up with costs high enough that a lot of people would rather pick things up themselves.