Only take out food available?
I can see some cost savings, without needing hired help as waiters or as many people to clean up.
Personally, fast food or delivery is fine sometimes, but there are times it’s nice to get out of the house and go sit down for dinner out, even if it’s something simple such as pizza. Just my opinion, it’s nice to have the choice.
Yeah, I like using delivery services sometimes, but primarily for convenience. The downside is that the food can never be as hot and fresh as it would be eating at the restaurant. I don’t think I’d want too many restaurants to go to an all-delivery model.
A lot of the overhead in a restaurant is with the dining room and all that goes with it, including a waitstaff (with high turnover), dishwashers, maitre d's and whatnot.
Just get a first class kitchen, some decent, dependable cooks, a capable shift manager and have a nice website (and mobile phone app) to bring in the orders. Contracting with other restaurants to produce dishes for them is also a nice little niche to get into.
it’s awful...like all the cell phone orders which take precedent at places like Starbucks (where I only go if I absolutely HAVE TO anyway) at the expense of customers who give their orders in-store.
They do that here in L.A. The smaller restos’ I know of just do Doordash and Uber Eats. One of my faves’ relocated to a 5 table place instead of the 20 tables they had.