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Posted on 12/11/2020 11:00:16 AM PST by NohSpinZone
Santa Clara Board of Supervisors are on the verge of approving a 15% cap on third-party food delivery fees in an effort to help local restaurants as they brace for weeks under lockdown.
At Tuesday’s board meeting, supervisors unanimously voted to draft up a countywide ordinance relating to a temporary cap on commissions and fees charged by third-party delivery services by the next meeting on Dec. 15 instead of its original plan to report by January.
(Excerpt) Read more at kron4.com ...
Hey diners, why don't you help out by ordering directly from the restaurants and go pick up the food. Yeah it's a hassle but it'll save the restaurants a few bucks.
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Sounds nice, but only a stupid idiot who knows nothing about how things work could favor that. They have to make a profit. The folks who do the deliveries are working to earn money and are not on welfare. Giving them a decent pay + tip is essential - or there will not be any more of them.
Government always messes things up and never solves problems.
Commerce Clause and 14th Amendment...
Or save themselves tons of money by bringing leftovers from home. Sure beats the icky delivery person nibbling on your food. Sure beats the cook from putting the spatula down the backside of his pants to scratch his butt - yes, witnessed that and far too many other disgusting things. No thanks, I’ll eat my own cooking.
We naive people keep quoting the Constitution like it matters to anybody anymore. People are breaking the law in broad daylight and nobody is going to jail.
2021 is shaping up to be a very interesting year.
I will say, for all of those people 20 years ago that chuckled at the notion of ‘Agenda 21’, it would be interesting to look at what they were alleging would happen and see how accurate they were.
Between the fees and tip Grubhub charges, a 75 dollar grubhub gift certificate was not gonna go far..20 dollars in fees, plus a minimum of 18 percent for the driver..Quite an expensive service.
Indeed. I bet the restaurants hate to use the service but feel like they have no choice when deliver and take out are the only route to customers right now. As I said in my post, we can help restaurants out bigly by ordering directly from them and picking up the food ourselves.
Am I getting this right, a driver delivering a $30 order at a 15% cap is only going to get paid $4.50?
If so I can see $100 order minimums on the horizon.
If I was a restaurant owner I would refuse to deliver to these so called city officials. All of the restaurant owners should get together on this and tell them all, sorry no delivery for you!
Well it’s California.
Gas is 4 bucks and a tiny bungalow is 700 grand.
So yeah....
We have your names!
I tip my drivers two bucks. It ain’t much, but at least they all say thank you.
LOL...this is a couple days after the DoorDash IPO. It soared 80% in the first day of trading and has a market cap of $60 BILLION!
Not bad for a business started started by Stanford University students in 2013. Can you imagine a better circumstance to take your food delivery company public than COVID?
So much for supply and demand.
Don’t most 3rd party delivery companies have a contract with the restaurants?
I know here in Alberta that is how it works. You don’t see more than one 3rd party delivery company delivering for a restaurant too often.
But really who cares. With restaurants being closed, delivery companies need to compete.
If one company will drive thru for cheaper that is the one I will hire...
Even before Covid, I was sitting in many restaurants and watching one 3rd party delivery company coming in and picking up delivery orders.
Up here “skip the dishes” is the main one.
Sometimes watched 4/5 delivery drivers at the counter waiting for orders. No money changed hands which tells me the restaurant has hired a contractor to deliver their product.
Adam Housley
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Big news out of Silicon Valley that hasn’t been officially reported yet...as far as I can tell...the California exodus continues...looks like Oracle is leaving California for Austin, Texas. It comes from an internal announcement. Apparently they just finished a HQ building there
Howdy.
After a long banned absence, I asked jimrob to reinstate me.
Looks like some old ping lists are still active.
Crazy times.
“Government always messes things up and never solves problems.”
Nine words containing the source of the vast majority of the world’s problems!
I have said to many young people that you need to understand that government is NOT in the business of solving problems, it is in the business of CREATING problems. It is so sad that so many live to be great grandparents without learning that one simple fact.
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