I’ve struggled with all the anti-delivery-app articles of late because it all seems to be focused on details that are either invisible to the consume or irrelevant to them.

Sounds like the restaurants just need to raise prices or stop signing on to the delivery service.  

If it is so destructive, why do the restaurants continue to use them? They clearly think they make more money using them than not or they’d cancel the service. There’s no force being used here.

You answered your own question: They could hire their own delivery drivers.

As a vet, I can tell you this is pretty much exactly how we feel over all the fawning and ‘thank you for your service’ crap.

I also love that album, with the band on Baby’s on Fire being half of the current line up of Hawkwind.

Fair enough. My real comment for you is regarding your online name. Props to Blank Frank, but clearly the best track on Here Come the Warm Jets is Baby’s on Fire, with its incredible blazing Robert Fripp guitar solo. It’s on my personal list of “Ten greatest ever electric guitar solos”.

He is figuratively, possible literally, the worst.

As a restaurant manager I don’t perceive it as the responsibility of the customer to make sure a restaurant stays open

I think that anyone that says something I do to “save the planet” is pointless is missing the point.  I know damn well that eating ONLY meat that comes from this one farm is not truly going to help all of the other cows, pigs, lambs and chickens in factory farm situations, but it’s my small contribution.  I pick up…

That is the first thing I thought.  I like to “eat local” because I know where the animals come from.  You can actually visit the farm.  They are sustainable and treat their animals well.  In fact, those animals have exactly one bad day.

To be clear, I think customers should tip service providers that receive less than minimum wage checks from their employers.

“ you can remind them that nobody was tipping you for your hard work all night.”

that was an awful long way to say ‘i wish this rapist wasn’t dead’

Precisely this. I can cook a steak to the exact temp I want it at home, if I’m paying someone else to do it they need to do at least as good a job as I do.

See, if I pay someone to cook a steak for me I expect it to be done correctly. I wouldn’t accept an almost job from any other professional service provider. Usually they aren’t even close. I dont go to chain places for steak anymore so I don’t have the problem.  

well, it makes the headline factually incorrect and misleading, and, imo, distracts from the real problem by blurring the lines and discredits the real problem

that’s different - it’s not forcing the restaurant to use the app - it’s just fraudulently using the restaurant’s name to sell different food. Maybe it forces the restaurants to file complaints.

“Delivery apps Seamless and Grubhub have been forcing restaurants to use their services”

You understand that the tax revenue from taxing “vice” items can then be used to fund healthcare, correct? So, if you want to hurt yourself, great! You’ll just have to pay a little extra for the burden you put on society as a whole, when we’ll have to pay for your multiple surgeries and treatments.