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TBD | Your Delivery Habit Isn't Helping

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of the pandemic, protests and police lockdowns, restaurants are turning increasingly to delivery apps like DoorDash and Grubhub to stay afloat. But with shady tactics, soaring fees, and deep-seated flaws with the business model of the entire industry, delivery startups may do more harm than good. Guest: Ranjan Roy, CEO at the Edge Group and writer of Margins newsletter Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Host Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode starts with the story of two friends, Ron John Roy and his buddy Adam.

0:10.2

Ron John's in his 30s now, he's a content strategist, used to be a Wall Street trader, and he

0:15.3

rates a newsletter about tech and business.

0:18.6

He and Adam met in college, doing a semester abroad in Rome, and after graduation, they

0:23.9

shared an apartment in New York.

0:26.1

And Adam actually worked in fashion.

0:27.8

He was at Barney's as a buyer of women's denim.

0:31.2

That's Ron John.

0:32.6

I asked him to tell me about Adam, because recently, the pair of them ran a little experiment

0:37.6

that got a lot of attention.

0:40.1

It was an experiment with pizza, which is what Adam does now.

0:45.5

He owns a pizza place.

0:46.5

Well, two of them actually in Kansas.

0:49.2

They're called AJ's New York Pizzeria.

0:52.2

Do you know why he wanted to open a Pizzeria?

0:55.4

He actually doesn't even like food, which is always a running joke among our friends.

1:00.4

And that was actually why it did make sense to me when he said that he wanted to open a

1:04.8

Pizzeria, because he was like, this is just pure business.

1:09.4

Just something I'm not even passionate about.

1:11.4

I think this is the opportunity to bring New York style pizza to Kansas.

1:18.9

Adam noticed that in Kansas, you couldn't get a good New York style slice for a reasonable

1:23.6

amount of money.

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