You're right. Here's an excerpt from a post on Quora:

Does DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, and Uber Eats charge more for food than the restaurant does?

They do not set or change the price of menu items. They make money on both sides of the transaction. You’ll see a service fee + delivery fee charged to the customer. In addition, they charge the restaurants a commission- usually a percentage of 20–32% of the subtotal of the sale.

Restaurants operate on very small profit margins (3–10%) so the commissions being paid out are extremely costly to them. To mitigate this, some restaurants will charge a higher price on apps than they do if you called it in or ordered on their website. It will be an evolving relationship between the two in the coming years.

In response to this post by VTHokie2000

Posted: 01/29/2022 at 07:29AM

Serious question. How do delivery fees come out of the bottom line of -- coshokie 01/28/2022 10:51PM

Both the consumer and the restaurant are charged -- MrBayAreaHokie 01/29/2022 09:54AM

Listing fee for being on their websites- these business models are all -- bigbadbird 01/29/2022 09:27AM

I don’t understand why people use it so much honestly -- turkeywinghokie 01/29/2022 09:16AM

Drunk or stoned people should use it instead of driving. ** -- EDGEMAN 01/29/2022 09:50AM

Haha. Stoners alone should keep them flush ** -- turkeywinghokie 01/29/2022 10:06AM

Marketing ** -- bigbadbird 01/29/2022 09:28AM

The delivery companies get a cut of each order from the restaurant. ** -- Jackie VT 01/29/2022 07:57AM

I asked a rep of Lil Italian Cafe in NOVA that very same question -- VTHokie2000 01/28/2022 11:50PM

Hmmm so double dipping. Charge the restaurant and the customer. I'll keep -- coshokie 01/28/2022 11:55PM

That's how it appears to me. Also, the person told me the various -- VTHokie2000 01/29/2022 04:03AM

You're right. Here's an excerpt from a post on Quora: -- PhotoHokieNC 01/29/2022 07:29AM

I honestly don't understand why restaurants participate at all. -- MP4VT2004 01/29/2022 09:22AM

The lazy are one group of participants. Others: "can't leave home for ----" ** -- PhotoHokieNC 01/29/2022 10:04AM

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