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You could make it work if you let the restaurant handle the delivery, domicilios.com (a Colombian company) used to do this, they were basically online restaurants Telephone directory with a nice UI, The restaurants pay a monthly fee to be in the site.

It worked really well until rappi(Latam equivalent of doordash) came in with a billion of dollars from softbank.

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GrubHub originally did this as well (maybe they still do this). I think they realized they could better justify a 30% cut if they handles delivery as well - before that they were a glorified fax machine.

There's also US company that offers this service, some of my local restaurants use it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChowNow

The order is placed on the SaaS site, but the restaurant does everything from then on.

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