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I mean, it shouldn’t be that expensive. Where I live basically every pizza and fast food place used to offer free delivery. Nowadays because of delivery services this has died out a bit, but it still exits, yet ordering through the delivery services is way more expensive.

I honestly don’t even get it, because for a long time the delivery services were operating at a loss, not even sure if most of them are in the plus even now, yet they should be more efficient than every fast food place having its own drivers.

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Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The pizza place has free delivery because the cost is built into the pizza and people who pick up at the store pay that even though they don’t get delivery. Using a private delivery service they charge more because they don’t get a piece of the ‘pie’ so you’re basically paying twice for delivery.

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- TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Except there’s a local market price for that pizza. If your pizza is on par with a pizzeria two minutes away and doesn’t do free delivery, you can’t charge more. You’ll lose all your pickups to them.
  
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  - Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Except that other pizzeria two minutes away isn’t only pricing it’s pizza for walk-ins either, it’s offering free delivery to steal the customers further away from the other pizzeria. They both would have the charge built into their pizza, so it’s irrelevant. Unless that pizzeria doesn’t do any delivery at all, in which case the first pizzeria doesn’t have to worry much as it has all the business for people who don’t want to come in and pick up pizza.
    
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    TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This only makes sense if they are trying to grow and customers are rational actors at every purchase point. Neither is true in this situation. And it’s obvious because there pizzerias that have delivery fees in the same marketplace as ones with free deliveries.
    
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- Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Your pizza/chinese food that have in house delivery dont give 10% discount for picking it up? Thats weird
  
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I use delivery services because restaurants have terrible phone service. It’s always their cousin Mumbles who answers the phone, surrounded by people banging on pots and pans. He doesn’t read my order back to me to make sure it’s correct. He doesn’t tell me how much it’s going to be. He doesn’t tell me how long it’s going to take. So I have no idea if I’m going to get the right food, if it will be the right temperature, and if I have enough cash to pay the driver.

And there’s no way I’m going to give out my credit card info to some guy I don’t know.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t order delivery, but I like when restaurants have online ordering using the same system they use in the restaurant. It’s common with restaurants that use modern PoS systems like Toasttab. Prices are the same as if you order in person, since they don’t have to also pay another third-party (DoorDash, etc).
  
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  - Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It would be awesome if ordering systems had a standard API, so I could order delivery directly from any app
    
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