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The vast majority of the restaurants on Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat etc. in the UK did not (and still do not) offer delivery themselves.

I would say that in the UK it was really only pizza places that offered delivery.

Now with these apps you can get virtually any type of cuisine delivered from a wide range of restaurants.

Right but the food is bad when it’s delivered. That’s why delivery wasn’t offered in the first place.

Considering how popular those services are, I think people are fine with it.

The issue really is only profitability: a single delivery is expensive in labour cost while consumers do not want to pay a lot for it.

Exactly. People are only fine with it when prices are subsidized by venture capital.