[2banana]

Why not just order the food be delivered for free?

[wally_bert]

All in good time.

[nickcarraway]

This isn’t limiting how much the delivery service can charge the restaurant, it limits how much the delivery service can squeeze the restaurant. I think these delivery services give the restaurant less that the customer price for the entree. For example, they might give the restaurant $15 for an entree that’s $20 in the menu.

[AndyJackson]

Apparently 10-15% is the usual commission paid to 3rd party deliverers, but it sounds as though they are using monopoly bargaining power to charge much higher fees to restaurants that don't normally service take out delveries.

The alternative is just to let the restaurant go out of business.

This is not a "free market" situation, but one created by the emergency and invocation of emergency powers.

[Jewbacca]

Or require food be free!

Everything is free!

What will happen now, for those that haven’t learned, is food delivery services won’t go to bad neighborhoods — or remote places — and will be declared racist.