![]() Plus the fact that people eating in the restaurant will also use their credit cards, so the argument about 4% credit card fees is bogus - they'll pay that either way. It's a good way to extend the use of your kitchen instead of having staff sitting around to serve the small number of people actually IN the restaurant. Especially during off-peak hours when the patrons in the restaurant start to die down, but people are still ordering food for their late night party or whatever they're doing. Take out orders allow the restaurant to keep the kitchen/cooking staff fully utilized. Paying the servers to take the order, bring out the food, fill their glasses, check on their food and clearing the table afterwards. Paying for damaged dishes, missing dishes/utensils, laundry costs for the table cloths and other linens. Cleaning the dishes the customers used while eating in the restaurant. A take-out order doesn't have the expenses of: If you want to help your favorite restaurant to stay in business call them directly if you can find their real number, a google search usually only show the "Seamless phone number". The restaurant also has to wait up to 4 weeks to get paid from Seamless. The restaurants may not be benefitting from Seamless just Seamless is benefitting. So just remember whenever you use of on these kind of leach services you are only raising the price of your meal (although it is hidden) for yourself and everyone else. I asked him if he had to raise all his prices to cover this "middleman" service and he admitted that he had. ![]() ![]() I asked the manager what does that service cost his business and he told be 10% for every order plus 4% for credit card fees. I was in a Japanese restaurant getting sushi to go and I notice that a Grubhub or Seamless order had come in while I was waiting. I notice some of my favorite take out and delivery restaurants have raised their prices a bit and I assume it had something to due with insane rents increases. I live in NYC and getting meal deliveries is something a lot of us do a few times per week on average.
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