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I have Dashpass free from my credit card. Its not the same as ordering from directly from restaurant as Doordash marks up the prices 10% to 25%. I always thought Doordash was a terrible deal without it, you're paying marked up prices, delivery fee and a tip. Doordash is winning because they have the widest selection of restaurants since they are using their own drivers compared to Grubhub. Not sure why Postmates and UberEats failed to capture more market share since they offer the same service.

The thing that really allowed DoorDash (and UberEats) to pull ahead was investing in partnerships with chain restaurants vs focusing on independent restaurants. Which hasn't necessarily resulted int he best product

Definitely agree that they're winning (the Second Measure blog is fascinating), it just seems like they bought their way to the top at a very high cost.

DashPass is definitely keeping me a DoorDash user, it's benefits are significantly better than Uber Eats pass, but idk if that's sustainable for DoorDash.