# Door dash disruption

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dash-disruption/971915>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dash-disruption/971915 "2022-09-20T13:48:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/door-dash-disruption/971915/18 "2022-09-22T12:06:25Z")

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> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> Not sure - I forgot postmates was a thing.

Postmates was apparently the one that I was thinking about earlier in the thread when I mentioned some of the not even using the correct menu.

> [@Postmates, what's the endgame here?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postmates-whats-the-endgame-here/849159):
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> A buddy of mine owns a bar. Over the past few weeks he’s had postmates drivers and regular customers that ordered on postmates stopping in for the order only to be met by a very confused staff that have no idea what they’re talking about. Some digging showed that postmates has a menu for his restaurant on their website. A menu, but not his menu, or at least not entirely his. He recently put a big notice on his facebook page stating that his restaurant doesn’t work with postmates/grubhub/doorda…

Here’s an article that was linked to in that thread:

> **[The Postmates Problem: Why Some Restaurants Are Forced to Fight the Delivery App](https://www.eater.com/2015/7/31/9074491/postmates-delivery-problems)**
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> The independent delivery service is ruffling feathers among restaurateurs.

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