A local pizza place recently decided to start using them for deliveries, whether you order on their platform or not doordash will drive it.

I stopped using doordash years ago over extremely poor quality and was extremely disappointed. I realized.. when you order local they put your pizza in those oven mit things and delivery you a fresh warm pizza.

Doordash makes zero investment in their drivers. That short 10 minute drive to my house, no oven thingy, cold pizza, slid to one side of the box ruining half of it. Thnx doordash

Probably only one of the few tricks we know of. These companies running unscalable models by burning VC money like it's firewood have to somehow smooth the numbers.

They stopped messing with driver tips. As for questionable business practices in general, I don't see that as any different than a hundred other questionable-but-still-legal practices, many of which cause vastly greater social and environmental harm that Doordash could ever hope to achieve.