• darkmarx@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It would take a lot to convince me that they haven’t been discussing this for years and have been waiting for the right time. The market is now loaded with others to do the delivery, which was probably one of the considerations. I’m sure another was how to announce it where they can blame someone else; at least to the point of ensuring some will defend them.

    The minimum wage increase is their excuse. What they are doing is outsourcing their delivery to a 3rd party (GrubHub, Uber eats, etc). They wont have to pay them anything, the customer will. They are decreasing their head count, payroll, insurance, taxes, benefits, etc. They will lose some sales, but that wont even be close to their cost savings. They will easily make more money while selling their product at the same price. Any business would love to be in the same position.

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      10 months ago

      They will easily make more money while selling their product at the same price.

      😂 Come on, man, like they’re not use this to increase prices.

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      10 months ago

      I’d say that they’d lose more business than that, but I guess not considering how happy people are to pay ridiculous prices to Uber Eats and DoorDash for fast food that’s already overpriced. My neighbors get DoorDash from fast food places 5-6 times a week.

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      10 months ago

      The minimum wage increase is their excuse.

      Why would they need an excuse? No one cares about the principle of the matter except anti-consumerist hipsters who weren’t eating their pizza anyway.