I understand that food delivery platforms take a cut of about 30% on each order plus a cut from drivers delivery fee.
Most restaurants mark up their items by 20% - 30% when listed on these platforms to compensate for the service fee.
With the current situation, restaurants are hurting and we need to help them survive. We need to make it easier and more attractive for restaurants to continue to provide food via delivery .
One way it to drop the price to make is comparable to ordering off the menu in store but with the delivery platforms taking 30% this is difficult to do.
It almost seems unethical for delivery platforms to be taking such a big cut in times like this but if they really need the funds to keep offering the service should the Govt chip in?
e.g. Govt could fund the infrastructure costs for running the delivery service, this would be far less than having to compensate restaurants and worker out of jobs.
What do you think?
What can we do to change this?
The free market fails again.
The biggest thing the Government could do right now to stimulate the economy is nationalise electricity again so that the "severe damage" that's causing to the economy ceases.
That would mean almost everyone would feel the effects of the economic stimulus and no tax payer money would be spent to do it.
Privatised electicity has a 25 year record of never being cheaper, terrible service levels in terms of supply and obviously spending hours shopping around every month is awful customer service. Not that most Australian's even understand what they're buying to start with.
None of the ridiculous theory around privatisation turned out to be correct in the real world.
The Government has a record of supplying electricity for over 80 years with prices only increasing with inflation.