They're convienent. They're fun. They're flashy. But, they're also a component of the recent food inflation that are pinching your wallet.
Delivery apps are charging you inflated menu prices, then tacking on a delivery fee, service fee, and even a subscription fee to barely lower the first two fees. Restaurants must be making a killing with all those fees, right?
Think again.
None of the fees you're paying go to restaurants. Actually, they're also charging local restaurants over 30% of each order too. So, drivers are killing it, right?
Nope.
Almost none of the fees go to drivers either. In most markets, a national delivery app starts driver pay per delivery at just $2 before tips. That's $2 for up to 10 miles of one-way driving for using their own car, fuel, insurance, and time. It's not like FedEx where a company pays for the van and the driver pockets the fee - independent food delivery drivers are responsible for maintaining and fueling up their own vehicles. So, where's all this cash going?
Millionaire executives. Stated differently: yachts and private jet fuel.
So, let's recap: delivery apps are charging you up to 25% more for the same food, charging restaurants over 30% of your order, then paying independent drivers as little as $2? Yep. That's right. The only people who are winning from a delivery app order are the app executives themselves. They're blowing your budget to gas up their jet. What can you do about it?
It's easy. Just cut them out of your order.
Food delivery from our site saves you over 10% with in-store pricing and has no fees at all on $25+.
All of that for hitting a URL instead of launching an app.
It's not just us though. Its every local restaurant. Taking a few minutes to seek out how to order from any local restaurant directly is saving you a bundle plus keeping more of your order in local economies instead of fueling up a jet in San Francisco, Chicago, or Massachusetts.
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