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by osamagirl69 721 days ago
There is one update the the article that seems noteworthy:

>Note 1: We found out afterward that was all the result of a “demand test” by

>Doordash. They have a test period where they scrape the restaurant’s website

>and don’t charge any fees to anyone, so they can ideally go to the restaurant

>with positive order data to then get the restaurant signed onto the platform.

>If we had to pay a customer fee on the order, it would’ve further cut into our

>arbitrage profits (though maybe we could’ve incorporated DashPass as part of

>the calculation).