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Step 1) Withdraw cash

Step 2) Search ‘delivery’ in your favorite maps app

Step 3) Call whichever restaurant looks decent to you tonight and place an order

Step 4) Receive delivery, give cash tip

You’ll eliminate the middleman fees on both sides of the transaction while at the same time supporting the food businesses that are most local to you.

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So many places you can even pay online with "regular" Square or Shopify or Stripe

Amen. BUT, be aware that the delivery assholes often hijack restaurants' online presence and put up fake phone numbers that go to the middleman, not the restaurant.

Also some restaurants have apparently started contracting out some of their 'normal' deliveries to these entities, so it can be difficult to avoid them entirely even if you're deliberately trying not to do business with them.

my local papa johns franchise outsourced its delivery to... doordash :-/

Someone else reported that some Pizza Huts are doing this as well. I believe Dominos still uses only their own employees to deliver.

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