Is anybody noticing a wide discrepancy in restaurant prices online by platform? The same restaurant, same menu option for pick up, same ingredients, can be double the price. 👀

Chicken Teriaki

Call in: $ 5.00 ($10 for 2)

Fantuan: $ 7.07

Chowbus: $ 9.99

Doordash: $10.79

Google: $11.79

Seamless: $11.79

Grubhub: $12.99

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No big deal. When you pay online, they are expecting that you are financing your Burrito by only making minimum monthly payments. Price can be higher.

Esch plataform has their own fees

Oh yeah 100% best example I have is my favorite spot for yakisoba in town, you go in person ~11$ a plate with the pork belly. 17$ on doordash and like 16 on grubhub.

The platforms charge up to 30%, some even require price uniformity between platforms so they don't lose fees to you calling the restaurant to order because it's cheaper.

Same model as hotels(dot)com and other middleman platforms

Nope. Never noticed. We actually cook our own food.

I just deliver for doordash to make money.

Aka Deliver petrol chemical filled foods to idiots to pay my rent.

This shouldn't even be a thing....

Been looking for a new job though.

My skills include a federal arson charge.

I don't really pay attention to food prices so I dunno.

I also don't order food or dine-in because of the tipping culture, Tipping is dumb.

Im slowly learning how to cook because the economy is bad and restaurants are struggling and the tipping culture makes it worse because they sometimes give you dirty thoughts when you don't tip.

Also I don't want to support evil corporations like Uber eats and door dash. They are a terrible employer.

A diferença está em que nos restaura mais caros o cozinheiro lava as mãos para preparar as refeições. 🤣

Where I live, you can pick it up yourself or if you're lucky, someone will deliver it to you for a fee.

I don't even think they do uber eats here

No fixed prices, just deals.

Yep I’ve stopped using those delivery services and eating out much less

Doordash fees can be up to 30% depending which tier you choose. I'd assume the others are similar or less. I've never heard of half of those platforms but do they offer delivery? I'm guessing they don't, or they fully get the customer to pay for it, while doordash and ubereats charge 15-30% but subsidize some of the delivery. This results in restaurants increasing prices there to compensate. But that price increase also hits pickup orders so you see a higher price than the other platforms that add delivery fees.

Most likely either this resaurant just added the platform fees from each one to the price (this wouldn't explain a 2x price difference though), or more likely, they change prices somewhat often and can't keep up with updating all the platforms they use. This is why I use the doprdash square integration. Even though it's dogshit and makes me and staff miss orders, it uses my menu on square so all prices and modifiers are at least synced to in-store. There is an option to add a fixed % markup to all prices for doordash but I keep it off.