Delivery apps like DoorDash and Postmates had been gouging restaurants with fees of up to 30%, sometimes even signing restaurants up for this without their permission. When the pandemic hit and the delivery apps started making outrageous bank, Mayor London Breed issued an order to cap their charges at 15%,

Another local restaurant has bitten the dust, and food delivery apps are causing restaurants to go under instead of helping them stay afloat. “Online ordering does more damage to a business than it helps,” says the out-of-business sign at just-shuttered Gaslamp Cafe. “Any profit from the sale is stripped away

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Video killed the radio star. Fax machine killed the bike messenger. Then Internet killed the fax machine and smartphones brought the messengers back. We still work on bikes, and we still do delivery, but it’s more general these days. Less paper, more sandwich. The need for delivery didn’t go away,