Economy of scale applies to production think chips & screens. What economy of scale can DoorDash achieve? Persuade everyone to be paid below fair wage? Push the margin of restaurants down?
I see a kind of future where restaurants are reduced to a kitchen and packing area, with no seats. Then several kitchens bunched together to save on rent and utilities. Then cut out the drivers with air or land based drones. Then start lobbying so that the drones can move underground, and new buildings have to include a drone delivery vent / conveyor belt.
You already can live your whole life and never leave a house, working remote or playing the stock market, having everything delivered. It's grim. And it's coming.
> I see a kind of future where restaurants are reduced to a kitchen and packing area, with no seats. Then several kitchens bunched together to save on rent and utilities.
Isn't that a food court? I'm not sure you've described a particularly grim future. I mean, there's lots of grimness in the future. But you haven't described it.
Most restaurants in my city use UberEats. A fraction of them have bothered to setup with the 2nd most popular competitor. Fewer yet with the 3rd. And you never see the 4th or 5th. UberEats becomes an obvious money-on-the-table might-as-well for everyone with its incumbency.
Same with the user perspective. I use UberEats because it has all the restaurants. I'm not going to download the 2nd most popular app.
I'm not saying DoorDash, I'm saying the business model, which is what the poster was rallying against. I've no particular opinion that DoorDash will achieve an economy of scale.
