Economics 101. Prices go up...demand goes down.

“The Seattle City Council has not acted…” could be said about literally anything.

Yet another moronic decision by the city council

you get what you vote for

You know what I don't use? A delivery service. I call in my order, I go pick up my order, and I leave a tip that would have otherwise gone to the driver because I appreciate good people making good food and I want to see them stay in business.

COOK AT HOME ! IT SAFER CHEAPER AND RELAXING

Go back to hiring in house delivery drivers!

The delivery apps themselves priced me out as a customer over a year before the fee went into effect. I’m not paying $34 for a chipotle burrito, so making it a few dollars more expensive changed nothing for me.

A lot of people lack understanding of economics. Maybe the Seattle City Council should open up restaurants and charge low prices and outcompete these private industry folks.

The councils decision will lead to unemployment. Did they consider that?

I just ordered food but picked it up myself...screw those deliver apps

Eating out and ordering out has gotten too expensive in general. I used to order out alot but cant do it anymore because i cant afford to.

What's wrong with people. Call in your order and go pick it up. So simple. I order take home 3-5 times a week. Never use a delivery service.

Wait... people are blaming deliveries for closing and not the apps for parasite-ing off the businesses? If the house is packed and you still can't make it, there is something fundamentally wrong with your business model and not the delivery service. And if the delivery service won't deliver or you think it costs "too much" (to pay people properly for their time) then get off your ass and go to the restaurant. Either eat in or call ahead and order to-go. It ain't that hard people.

Another STUPID decision by the bureaucrats in the Seattle City Council--throw the bums out. VOTE NO on the upcoming TRANSPORTATION LEVY Proposal. These people in CITY HALL don't know what they are doing.

The crazy thing about Uber and Postmates and doordash. They still aren't turning a profit. All this money from restaurants and grocery stores flowing into these apps and the companies still depend on constantly bringing in new investors.

Uber Eats was charging $15 in fees for a $20 meal last night. So I canceled that order and removed my account.

Figuring out more ways to close down the small businesses. Destroying the way of life as we knew it.

Do people not call restaurants directly to place an order?

These delivery apps need to be regulated, or outright banned. Remember when we used to order directly from restaurants? I don't understand how pizza places had it figured out when I was growing up without any apps.

they realized the real cost of having someone delivering to you

I got an idea, why don't the businesses that have seen losses in revenue from the DOOR DASH IMPOSED PRICE INCREASE (door dash makes billions and raised their prices as a middle finger to the city of Seattle consumer) just higher the drivers that are protesting to be their delivery drivers. You know, the business model pizza places figured out decades ago. Then we all get to tell a massive corporation to pass off and the overall cost to the consumer drops while revenue for the small business goes up.

It's not just Seattle. I moved to Everett many years ago because I was tired of over-paying for everything in Seattle. But some things - like exorbitant delivery fees - are an issue up here as well. As a result I rarely eat out anymore. There are great restaurants up here but they are usually smaller, family run, with little available parking even for pick-up. A couple have closed this past year. The whole delivery fee racket is a menace to small businesses.

The way the City Council acted throughout this was nothing short of disgraceful. They thought they could barge their way into a sector and change everything. The changes they pushed made it also impossible for bike delivery so now there are even more cars just waiting around some of the spots. I know three people that had to find new places to live because they found themselves suddenly make 50% less than what they used to make.

This is inevitable, since day 1, I saw this exact scenario. Go back to when things worked just fine

Boycott delivery apps. Amazon too. Quit being so lazy and go get your food.

Delivery food is gross. You pay all this money, just to have your freshly cooked food crammed together in a box, and then steam itself for half an hour to lose all of its texture and vibrancy?? Nope. I might be agreeable to pay LESS for that experience. Same cost (or more)?? lol!

I miss going to Stone Way Cafe in Fremont, that place was awesome! In retrospect now it was dirt cheap, and I’m only talking a few years ago. Without places like that, Seattle has lost much of its remaining charm.

How does a brick and mortar restaurant require delivery to stay open?

"we're closing because our 10 dollar burget that costs you 35 dollars in doordash and now costs 40 is way too expensive..." so it wasn't the 5 dollars, it was the 25 dollars you tacked on top before :)

Stop using delivery apps.... simple.

I drive for Uber but I won’t do Uber eats. I won’t get food delivered either. Driver’s don’t get paid enough for orders or tipped either. And for the customer, it just costs way too much.

How about dont use uber eats & have people order directly from the restaurant.

For a flat fee of $10.99

There ya go! Start your own delivery!

Even if they remove the delivery fees it still wouldn’t make a difference in my household. The cost of eating out is a luxury these days.

Makes me happy knowing I've passed by this place a ton of times, great that they're insourcing.

Remember when pizza restaurants used to deliver themselves? And that was normal and affordable? Whatever happened to that.

Is life so hard that you need a service to get food you want to eat ? Drag your azz outdoors and deal with reality.

Before just the uber eats drivers made nothing now the restaurants and the uber eats drivers make nothing.

"For a FLAT fee." 😂🤣😃

My wife and I used to order from delivery apps 2 or 3 times a month because of both of us having long work days. It's gotten even more expensive and now we order less than once a month because our orders would get canceled. Not enough drivers anymore because it's not worth it to them I guess. Minimum $7 tip and sometimes $5 more in cash. And we don't even live in Seattle.

Hire your own people wow!

gotta make sure that ugly flag in framed up in the last shot 🙄

So Uber is doing the restaurant business what they did to the taxi business. F*ck Uber, better yet, people need to get off their asses and GO SUPPORT THEIR LOCAL RESTAURANTS.

bok a bok is the smart business choice. 3rd party apps add yet another middleman to an already expensive end-product.

The rents are high ! And get a delivery driver like the old days that works for you. Delivery of food is too much added cost , get it yourself.

Wait a minute, if the owners restaurant is full of customers why is it closing??? Just stop delivering or deliver yourself!

A restaurant full of customers cannot blame delivery fees for closing. High rent prices, sure Low menu prices, sure Delivery fees added by delivery companies, not so sure. Seems like the customers prefer the in-restaraunt option better.

Cooking is fun and creative! Plus you can eat your mistakes most of the time. Stay home.

What happened to the delivery people that the restaurants used to hire? For you younger people who might not know, every Chinese and pizza joint employed their own drivers in the past, usually high school kids. Now Uber and such food delivery companies have taken over, you might as well get FedEx or UPS doing it!

Where are the automated delivery devices?

Its seattle... not many of us care.

How about cooking at home and saving your money. I'll never use uber eats or door dash.

My business model is don't pay ridiculous amounts of money to strangers to do something done better at home.

Gas and insurance are among the highest of the nation in the Seattle area, not to mention, it is an extremely stressful job having to navigate apartment complexes and dealing with rude concierge desks, parking, wear and tear on your personal vehicle. Your telling me this restaurant built their entire business around uber eats? No one owes them a delivery service. They could have bought a company car and hired a few delivery drivers. They have all their customers contact info, send a mass email letting them know of the change, and the cheaper delivery option. Uber eats is a logistics company, not a restaurant. Post mates started out as a specialty service for restaurants that would not deliver beyond a certain radius and for stores that did not offer delivery.

In mid of the pandemic in 2020 we had door dash and it was just problematic with dashers sometimes wanting they order first or not knowing their order it was just disruptive, so we decided to not do any business with any of them , now we have order online and soon delivery in a 10 mile radius business has been doing great even though the produce is expensive we haven’t change our quality

To many fees!!

There is something fishy about this. How can a restaurant go belly-up when it is packed everyday? Poor management?

The same generation that claims they cannot afford a house etc are the absolute most financially immature. Ordering out 3 times a day, never eating at home. Then they wonder why they can't get out of debt or buy a house. Just keep blaming everyone else and waiting for the government to help.

Here's the trouble, the delivery apps take a good plenty from the restaurant then they charge the customer a good plenty More and pay driver squat. Now, they are forced to to share the pie so in typical fashion they impose yet More fees instead of simply sharing the pie and now deliver is down . Don't cave in

When delivery dries up only then will you then realize how many local customers that will come to your place to order in person person there really is. When eating out I always go and get my food myself. Dependence on the app during COVID was one thing. But the problem is they KEPT depending on them for sales. These apps are like "drug dealers" playing both sides. Both consumer and business BELIEVE they need them.

ALL OF THIS IS INTENTIONAL!!

A business based on artificial pricing fails!

Thanks again city council!

I live in Shoreline and the fees still impacted me. I could no longer justify paying the fees for delivery, so I stopped using the apps. I just can’t help but wonder how restaurants managed before the delivery apps… I mean, I think they only became widely used in 2020 during the pandemic. I know that is when I started using them.

Über Eats is way more expensive than others. 1:22 I agree with this man, about 3rd party apps. The pandemic gave them life, but we are not in the same circumstances, any longer.

I try hard not to use third party delivery services. The two times I have, each driver showed up raggedy and in a beater car--totally sketch. I am always worried third party drivers have finger sex with the food.

What did you learn..?

Delivery.

Seattle is a lesson in what NOT to do.

wont cook, wont pick up. lol this generation.

OK get your own delivery car delivery your own food it your own stuff your own money? Why are you relating on somebody else To Do this Bye. delivery person and have it go on?

Seattle, such a business friendly environment. Haven’t spent one cent in that town in 4 years. Bellevue has so much more to offer , plus no druggies littering the streets.

I don’t care about delivery drivers cushy life! I want my food!

Pizza restaurants have been delivering for decades with their own employees. So current restaurants don’t care what 3rd party delivery workers earn?

what this city needs is less commerce is what I always say, good job council

Good. Americans began eating out more than at home for the first time less than 8 years ago. Way too many restaurants across the entire nation.

Same story different flavor. When government starts micro managing economy

The cost of product increase 40% the cost of wages up to $16 an hour for minimum wage. Taxes upon taxes for business owners specialty insurance for food vendors. This is what happens when Bidenomics takes over. And since business license renewal was due by the beginning of July you'll see a lot more closures by the end of this month.

To be honest this is no the reason to shut down your business, delivery orders are minimum income compared with your regular or new customers at your physical location, this is just a excuse because if your business is no design to attend deliveries only or in the majority on your business you can't claim a delivery tax is killing your business, that's a cheap excuse for failure.

When you have city council members that don't own a business making decisions for businesses.

Bok a bok owner is smart

They were looking for the sweet spot between the market and regulation and got too greedy with the latter. Will have respect for them if they admit their error and vote in the revised version.

Bureaucrats Murica. Dunno what’s what. DUMBOCRACY

You get what what you vote for!... I promise you these restaurant owners are also liberals!!

Yay, democratic policies working! 😂

If people wanted the food, the restaurant would not be going under. Period. Lots of businesses have been subsidized, in a way, by these delivery apps, money they would not have had if not for the delivery apps. That's how it goes.

Stupid City Council of Seattle making for Seattle Future isn't working and Mayor 😂😂😂😂

Company’s didn’t have to raise the fees their greedy

That Bok a Bok guy looks like someone I don't want to give my business to in the first place.

If enough people ditch the delivery because of the fee, the city council will institute a pickup fee.

Seattle City Council is slowly killing our city. It's really sad. We need new leaders that are more educated.

It’s called a pandemic failure - delivery apps.

Only fools invest their money in businesses in Seattle…

When politicians ask for more money. Say no.

Seattle City Council does it again. 😢

When the city put this into effect these restaurants should have quit paying any city taxes,the end would have been the same!

They will call them greedy owners. Move now, before it's too late. Wait till $30 min. wage. 🤪

Seattle City Council always does the wrong thing to start. But they eventually come around and finally do…a slightly less wrong thing in the end. And then they get re-elected.