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Except that local restaurants are already operating on razor thin margins. And when the only surviving restaurants are Perkins and Applebee’s, the delivery services lose a lot of their value proposition.



Seamless has been around for over 20 years and is very popular in NYC. Why would restaurants keep using it if it wasn't advantageous for them?


They have no choice. People used to have a stack of menus form local deliveries. Nowadays the convenience made ordering food through apps the thing to do. The thin margins that restaurants operate on gets sweeped under grubhub’s and the landlords rugs. This will kill most small food business which rely on deliveries.




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