[nobody9999]

>Pre-COVID, I used to go to a small kabob restaurant in Silicon Valley. During COVID, I'd order from them via Doordash. The food wasn't as good cold, though, even if re-heated. After COVID, I started going back in person. Often, I'd be the only in-person customer, despite a steady stream of deliver drivers going in and out. Now, they're out of business.

Because DoorDash/GrubHub/UberEats/etc. charge the restaurants more than their gross margins. In such an anvironment, unless a restaurant raises prices 25-30%, they're eventually going out of business.

I'd say that these companies are most certainly not providing 25-30% value add. Rather, it's just leeching off restaurants and their customers.

It's disgusting and has killed many, many restaurants where I live (NYC), even though we already had a culture of delivery before these parasites came along.

And more's the pity.