On some of those late nights, especially when I picked up Indian food, I’d be hungry enough to genuinely consider this

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    Thats a nice way of putting it. I always just thought of it as inserting themselves into things that worked fine before but now they extract margin from everyone involved.

    I used to just phone a local business and someone would who worked for them would bring me food. It worked fine.

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      our local thai restaurants have gone back to that model. they all share the same delivery guy, but they don’t use doordash. it’s more honest and fair for everyone involved.

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        A couple of our locals have now. Haven’t used an app in years. It was always a terrible experience and way more expensive.

        One of them you can pay by card on delivery, the driver brings a wireless card terminal. Works great.

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      It still works for so many places, all you need to do is pick up the phone and ask. Some have order forms on their websites too and you usually get a better deal.

      But beware, some of those App companies create URLs for businesses (without their knowledge or consent) to reroute your search back to their App.