<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 16:57, Philip Barnes <<a href="mailto:phil@trigpoint.me.uk">phil@trigpoint.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
No, because that doesn't verify that the restaurant has endorsed the service.<br>
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If the food is cold would the restaurant accept my complaint. <br>
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Anybody can set up a company to buy something and sell it on at an inflated price.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hadn't considered that possibility. I was already leaning towards the opinion that many of</div><div>these services were likely to be ephemeral. Some may have been set up purely to milk</div><div>money from investors and will never turn a profit. Some may be honest endeavours but</div><div>will ultimately fail. Some may have a workable business model that will break if/when</div><div>legislation ever appears to make the gig economy more fair to the workers. Even if</div><div>two or three survive all that, market forces may mean takeaways switch allegiances</div><div>frequently in order to get the best deal and it would be no more sensible to map them</div><div>than it would be to map the "dish of the day."<br></div><div><br></div><div>And now, as you point out, some of these will be chancers who are not working in</div><div>co-operation with the takeaways and the takeaways themselves may not want to be</div><div>associated with them.</div><div><br></div><div>Overall, this tag seems to be a bad idea. Just tag that the takeaway itself offers deliveries</div><div>by some means. We don't care if they have their own driver(s) or if they make use of</div><div>these services, just that they offer deliveries. See the takeaway's website or phone them for</div><div>more details. If you want to risk using a delivery service app, that's down to you and the app</div><div>installed on your phone. You'd need the app to make the order anyway, so you don't need us</div><div>to map which takeaways it claims to service.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>