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Man, I hope all the electronic food ordering sites are like that

Every restaurant here takes online orders, but ordering online tacks on 10% or more in fees. I just call them on the phone to avoid the fees, since it seems insane to me to pay $8 just for 2 seconds of using a web app

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Be careful what number you call, because Grubhub puts their own number out there on Yelp pretending it's a direct line to the restaurant, when it actually goes through Grubhub's systems and they tack on a fee for your order. Google will sometimes give you the Yelp number as the restaurant's number if you just Google it, and they also create websites which scrape the original website and attempt to SEO their way above it so that they get their cut.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756878/yelp-grubhub-comm...

Wouldn't they require your card number over the phone, then?

Would be very strange for a phone-in order for pickup. If you always just pay when you're picking up you'll be fine.

Some are, some aren't - you can sometimes dig around and find out which they use.

A few of the local restaurants have ones that add nothing to the order cost at all, so they must be cheap enough that the restaurant doesn't care.

DoorDash takes up to a 30% cut even on pick up orders. Pretty rough deal for restaurants that have to use that service to survive. Just makes the costs go up for the rest of us.

I refuse to use something like doordash for pickup. I’d rather call or just go and order and wait than give DD such a huge cut for doing nothing useful.

yeah man, it's friggin crazy

I used to play around with crypto trading bots back when the space was new enough that geniuses hadn't come in and hogged most of the easy profits. I'd happily run a ton of pretty complicated code 24/7 just to net a few free bucks per hour

Yet somehow Menufy, Chownow, etc seem to need $3+ just for a few microseconds of very simple, straightforward, financial-risk-free code.

I guess that's why there are so many of those terrible services out there.

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