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I've never seen a restaurant post a menu on its website with different prices than what you would find in person, however this is exactly the business model of DoorDash. My question is, why don't restaurants do this? Is it illegal? Out of laziness? A tacit custom? Genuinely curious about this.

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(I work at DoorDash)

For restaurants that we haven't yet partnered with, we have a slightly increased price in order to pay for the cost of delivery. However, many of our restaurants pay this fee as a commission, and the price on our website is the same as at the restaurant.

We try to be very upfront about this price difference for our customers. For more info, see https://www.doordash.com/faq/#question4.

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