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“There’s a concern that it could be a system where restaurant owners are trapped in an unstable, unsuitable business model,”

Sounds a lot like Uber itself.

My kids use Uber Eat, Doordash, etc. It's crazy. First, the food is generally not very healthy. Second, it's expensive. Third, they both live in areas where walkable restaurants abound.

Me and Mr. Nina are too smart cheap to use food delivery services.

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Originally posted by Nina:
My kids use Uber Eat, Doordash, etc. It's crazy. First, the food is generally not very healthy. Second, it's expensive. Third, they both live in areas where walkable restaurants abound.

Me and Mr. Nina are too smart cheap to use food delivery services.

I’ve tried Caviar (delivery service) several times, and have come to this conclusion: If I want restaurant food, I should go to the restaurant and have it there. The presentation is so much better, and the food won’t have suffered from steaming itself to sogginess for 30 minutes in a box while the driver tried to figure out where I live.

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Originally posted by Nina:
My kids use Uber Eat, Doordash, etc. It's crazy. First, the food is generally not very healthy. Second, it's expensive. Third, they both live in areas where walkable restaurants abound.

Me and Mr. Nina are too smart cheap to use food delivery services.

Same here. I was hearing so much about the food delivery services I finally checked them out. After I added up all the fees I was like "no way".

There’s also another type of virtual restaurant. It’s called an “underground restaurant”. Usually it’s a wannabe chef who hosts dinners in his own house for a specific group of people who pay for the high cuisine and dining experience. These underground dining events are pop-up and unplanned in nature. The events are known only to select people and they avoid business license fees for the host.

Ugh, it's the Uber-ization of everything! I hate it!

I've read a little bit about these delivery services. Around here, well, I imagine they exist but I've never heard of them.

Plus the whole point of restaurant food is going out to eat.

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“There’s a concern that it could be a system where restaurant owners are trapped in an unstable, unsuitable business model”

Ya think?

Another thing about the uber-ization of every thing, I feel like it's going to make the life style differences more and more dramatic between urban and non-urban areas.

It will be interesting to see how that develops.

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Originally posted by Qaanaaq-Liaaq:
The events are known only to select people and they avoid business license fees for the host.

They also avoid health department inspections.

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They also avoid health department inspections.

I don't think we've ever had food delivered here.

There are a few places/services that will deliver, but, if we want to eat in the house, I'm happy to go pick it up myself.

(Plus, we live across the river ... so, even though we can see the University from our front yard, people think we live in the sticks.)

Brave new world. We are isolating ourselves in so many ways.

I trust the local pizzeria's employee delivery...it's not far away and their pizza exceptional. And the Indian place over the hill. But generally, take-out is not that great.

Remember felicitous meetings with neighbors and friends on the street, at the restaurant?

I guess you can still go to bars. Uh-oh, better not give Uber any ideas.

Wait 'til we figure out delivery by drone.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:

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Originally posted by Qaanaaq-Liaaq:
The events are known only to select people and they avoid business license fees for the host.

They also avoid health department inspections.

I doubt my own kitchen would pass a thorough health department inspection.

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Originally posted by QuirtEvans:
I don't think we've ever had food delivered here.

There are a few places/services that will deliver, but, if we want to eat in the house, I'm happy to go pick it up myself.

(Plus, we live across the river ... so, even though we can see the University from our front yard, people think we live in the sticks.)

Inhate to mention this but..uh...Oklahoma, man.