Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by treis 2170 days ago
>Doordash or whatever says 'for $x we will put a WhateverBurger burger into your hand'. As long as that's what they achieve, this seems fundamentally honest to me.

What percentage of customers do you think understand that Grubhub is marking up their food?

>If they aren't, they can turn it down and go elsewhere.

That's precisely the problem. Some of the restaurants customers are turning it down and going elsewhere because Grubhub has misrepresented their prices.
2 comments
chrisseaton 2170 days ago
> What percentage of customers do you think understand that Grubhub is marking up their food?

Why do they need to care about the markup? If the burger price seems like a good deal, go for it, otherwise don't.

> Some of the restaurants customers are turning it down and going elsewhere because Grubhub has misrepresented their prices.

Well then that seems like the situation is fixing itself due to everyone's free ability to do what they want? So why are we complaining?

link
treis 2170 days ago
>Why do they need to care about the markup? If the burger price seems like a good deal, go for it, otherwise don't.

Why don't you answer the question?

>Well then that seems like the situation is fixing itself due to everyone's free ability to do what they want? So why are we complaining?

In what way is the situation being fixed?

link
chrisseaton 2170 days ago
> Why don't you answer the question?

Well I'm not the one who cares about it. I don't understand why anyone else would. So I can't answer it!

> In what way is the situation being fixed?

People who don't want to do business with Doordash don't have to. If you don't like Doordash you can just forget they exist. It's not a problem.

link
panzagl 2170 days ago
People always 'find out' about mark ups and get pissed about them, but businesses are not charities.

And let's not act like this law was passed because of consumers- this is restaurant owners trying to have their cake and eat it too.

link
panzagl 2170 days ago
Is the markup similar for all restaurants? If Joe's burger is $5 marked up to $6, and Fancy Joseph's burger is $10 marked up to $12, isn't any marketing/signalling value of the price maintained?
link