[throw_away892]

A customer won't order through 3rd party app if the restaurant doesn't partner to sell through them. Same case for internet marketing.

What you should feel bad about are the excessive commission fees charged by those delivery apps.

[ivanbakel]

This is untrue. A few months ago there was an article on the front page about a restaurant serving pizza that had been auto-listed by, IIRC, Deliveroo - which had put a menu online with marked-up prices and was allowing users to place orders.

The restaurant owner even discovered that, because of some inconsistency between his prices and the third-party ones, he could cause the delivering company to pay him by simply placing orders to himself.

[FireBeyond]

I had visions of doing fancy CSS too, to render an accurate menu to your website viewers, but that would be deceptive to Uber's scrapers to mess with their menu.

[Hydraulix989]

It's not always obvious to users that the restaurants listed on these apps are not the real restaurants themselves.

[chrisseaton]

> the restaurants listed on these apps are not the real restaurants themselves

This isn't what is happening.

The food still comes from the actual restaurants.

[throw_away892]

True. But that was not my argument.