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Your food is here. It's from a restaurant that doesn't exist.

Original post made on Nov 7, 2019

Virtual restaurants, which live on mobile delivery apps and operate out of the kitchens of brick-and-mortar restaurants, are a growing phenomenon in the Bay Area, and the Peninsula is no exception.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 7, 2019, 5:37 PM

Comments (6)

Posted by resident
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Nov 7, 2019 at 6:20 pm

Meal delivery companies are ruining the restaurant dining experience. They delivery companies play hardball with the restaurants, forcing them to cut their profit margin on delivery food and forcing them into a pickup schedule that prioritizes delivery orders over orders by customers sitting in the restaurant. This increases prices and reduces service levels to actual sit-down customers.


Posted by It's cold and sampled by the driver
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Nov 8, 2019 at 10:11 am

I know quite a few delivery drivers and most all have semi-embarrassingly admitted they taste the food they're delivering fairly regularly to see if the place is any good.
They described ways of going about it undetected by the customer
No thank you please.


Posted by @resident
a resident of Corte Madera School
on Nov 8, 2019 at 1:09 pm

“ This increases prices and reduces service levels to actual sit-down customers.”

OK Boomer


Posted by Menlo Voter.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 8, 2019 at 6:25 pm

Menlo Voter. is a registered user.

"OK Boomer"

OK millennial

stupid, dismissive thing to say.


Posted by @mv
a resident of Corte Madera School
on Nov 9, 2019 at 10:34 am

Mhm. OK Boomer


Posted by Santa Clara Student
a resident of another community
on Nov 11, 2019 at 6:47 am

@Menlo Voter, Of course, bOKB" is the new troll tool for the msg board monkeys.
It's already past the sell by date but from an IP check on multiple boards, there's a person here who hasn't gotten all the attention he needs yet.


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