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Seriously wonder why this isn't taken down. Should be pretty trivial given overlap of physical or payment addresses if they're registering the same restaurant several times on the same platform. Probably even possible to do it by hand.

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If it generates revenue, it's not going down. There is absolutely no incentive at all to remove it. In fact, it gives the consumer more choices, and more ways to give money to the gig delivery service, and acts as a bulwark against being bullied by chains.

> it gives the consumer more choices

How? If a choice of "this restaurant" or "that restaurant" both take you to "this restaurant", is that really a choice?

The equivalent on Spotify are not generating revenue, though. The existence of these algorithmically generated spam artists doesn't factor into anyone's decision to buy premium or not - at least not in a positive way. And still they're there.

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