• frickineh@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    With higher delivery fees! Why on earth would anyone even order Pizza Hut after this? If I’m paying obscene delivery fees and jacked up menu prices through doordash or whoever anyway, I’m getting better food than that. Or just eating at home like I end up doing every time I look at the total from one of those services.

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      11 months ago

      It doesn’t even make sense as sure, Uber doesn’t pay drivers much and Pizza Hut won’t have to employ them, but customers will have to pay more. So Pizza Hut could have just said “due to increases in wages we have to implement a delivery fee”, and actually paid their drivers. They’d rather do this dramatic ‘omg we have to fire them’ thing though.

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          I agree. It might make financial sense for them as far as reducing payroll and management costs, but it seems just as likely to reduce their sales by as much as that saves. To me it feels like a political statement “how dare you expect us to pay employees!” where they pretend it’s not possible for them to make it work. Which is fine. If a business depends on paying subsistence slave wages, it should just close.

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            11 months ago

            Boomers keep threatening the collapse of the fast food market, “no one wants to work anymore”. Like they think anyone is going to miss the absolute shit that is fast food. Why are we supposed to care?

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            Not aboutdestroying, its about directing anger back to the working class. Its a look what you made me do for standing up for yourself.

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        11 months ago

        You are vastly overestimating the brain dead American population that will see the higher price, order delivery anyway, and then stop thinking about it.

        Like, they just don’t think about how it will affect their finances at all. People order takeout and delivery every day without a second thought.

        To be clear I am not victim blaming the poor, but we are beyond late stage capitalism here. They won.

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          11 months ago

          This is a defeatist take and while the answer isn’t a super simple “just tell people to not order out and cook more” we can definitely do more to help people stop relying on eating out and fast food.

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          No. In the days you maybe added $3 to an order for delivery and added a tip. Now you pay a $5 delivery fee and tip plus 20%-30% markup. They cornered and ruined the market and only those with too much money will simply not care.

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          11 months ago

          Except that’s not what’s happening at all. Go look at Just Eats stock price after aquiring grub hub for a few billion. Turns out, people actually do scoff at the delivery price of these services.

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      11 months ago

      Why on earth would anyone even order Pizza Hut after this?

      More money than sense.

      Businesses have long realized it’s easier and cheaper to rip off a smaller group of wealthier customers.