[Tagging] Apps of delivery

Paul Allen pla16021 at gmail.com
Wed May 15 16:16:29 UTC 2019


On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 16:57, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

>
> No, because that doesn't verify that the restaurant has endorsed the
> service.
>
> If the food is cold would the restaurant accept my complaint.
>
> Anybody can set up a company to buy something and sell it on at an
> inflated price.
>

I hadn't considered that possibility.  I was already leaning towards the
opinion that many of
these services were likely to be ephemeral.  Some may have been set up
purely to milk
money from investors and will never turn a profit.  Some may be honest
endeavours but
will ultimately fail.  Some may have a workable business model that will
break if/when
legislation ever appears to make the gig economy more fair to the workers.
Even if
two or three survive all that, market forces may mean takeaways switch
allegiances
frequently in order to get the best deal and it would be no more sensible
to map them
than it would be to map the "dish of the day."

And now, as you point out, some of these will be chancers who are not
working in
co-operation with the takeaways and the takeaways themselves may not want
to be
associated with them.

Overall, this tag seems to be a bad idea.  Just tag that the takeaway
itself offers deliveries
by some means.  We don't care if they have their own driver(s) or if they
make use of
these services, just that they offer deliveries.  See the takeaway's
website or phone them for
more details.  If you want to risk using a delivery service app, that's
down to you and the app
installed on your phone.  You'd need the app to make the order anyway, so
you don't need us
to map which takeaways it claims to service.

-- 
Paul
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