Why can't delivery services ask for permission before listing food from restaurants first? Why do they feel the need to impersonate restaurants, steal their menu, their trademark while never disclosing to the client that the restaurant has absolutely no part in that deal? Why can't delivery services behave in an ethical fashion that doesn't involve fraud?
When your business model is so rotten you need to lie on both ends to make money (restaurants and clients), well you shouldn't be in business at all.
And yet, this is how everything else in the world works.
I'm free to go buy 12 packs of Coke and resell them. I don't have to ask Coke if I can sell their product. I can even drive and deliver them to people if I want.
> Why do they feel the need to impersonate restaurants, steal their menu, their trademark while never disclosing to the client that the restaurant has absolutely no part in that deal?
Steal is a misleading term, as it implies that the restaurant is not able to use that menu. Delivery services are extracting and copying the information in the menu. They don't even show photos of the menu as far as I'm aware.
I don't see anything unethical here. They offer delivery of goods. You pay them, they pay their supplier (the restaurant), and they deliver you the goods. It's not any different than a restaurant, except their service is delivering food instead of converting raw ingredients into food.
If this is really unethical, why aren't we targeting drop shippers? They're even worse, they actually rebrand the goods so you can't tell who actually manufactured it. They play the exact same role; their only service is providing delivery for goods someone else manufactured.
Why can Google aggregate websites without author permissions?
Data protection laws already exist.
I'm not arguing it's good or bad. I'm just saying that since the laws won't be applied retroactively it equates to creating a huge barrier for new startups entering the field. Instead of promoting competition, existing leaders will be able to put ever more pricing pressure on restaurants.
Why can't delivery services ask for permission before listing food from restaurants first? Why do they feel the need to impersonate restaurants, steal their menu, their trademark while never disclosing to the client that the restaurant has absolutely no part in that deal? Why can't delivery services behave in an ethical fashion that doesn't involve fraud?
When your business model is so rotten you need to lie on both ends to make money (restaurants and clients), well you shouldn't be in business at all.