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hushpuppyextraordinaire
“ Up to instantly “
Alisvarius
"...from 7 weeks maximum up to instantly"
Ludus
Stop using shitty companies
PWBoiler
In what way is Grub Hub a bad company? I have no experience with them.
Ludus
Short version: they introduce a middle-man system where they charge both sides of a transaction (consumers and producers), provide no service (the driver does), provides nothing to the driver (driver provides the car, insurance, time, etc), abuses its employees, and is specifically designed to be bad for local economies by moving monies out from small areas and consolidating it elsewhere.
Ludus
Ex: Restaurant in Bippityburg sells food to an eater in Bippityburg, a driver from Bippityburg picks up the food and takes it there. Closed complete system where all transactions take place in Bippityburg (less taxes of course). GH wants $5 from the restaurant and the eater to put in FuckyouHQ, and wants to give the driver as little as possible, while providing nothing to them. All that has changed is the system costs $10 more and Bippityburg looses $10 to FuckyouHQ.
thunderbird89
I would contest one point of this: they *do* provide a service, namely the coordination of orders to couriers - they can put restaurants into contact with otherwise-unreachable customers, lowering the barrier of entry for merchants into the market, and expanding the choices customers have available. Whether that service is fairly priced is a different question entirely, and I'm not going to challenge you on that.
Ludus
One does need them to do that - restaurants had their own services for reaching drivers (or simply employed them out-right before). No customer is 'unreachable' it's always been a matter of a restaurant's preference of who they are willing to reach, but GH does have that ability to take that option away from the restaurant and give customers a wider range of options, but this is in limited areas.
Ludus
Gah *does not*