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I can guarantee you that business investors for a struggling franchise are not making financial decisions for political reasons. They're trying to make money.

Pizza places have been charging for delivery for a few years now. They don't just absorb it by increasing pizza prices anymore. My guess is their volume has gotten so low or extremely variable that it's hard to plan for the correct number of drivers each night, and the marginal cost of another driver is so high now that they can't just have extra drivers hang around doing nothing, and it's probably harder to keep drivers because they're being poached by all the delivery services.

Strategically, it makes a lot of sense. There are at least a half a dozen popular delivery services with thousands of drivers.