>I remember during that time that the general consensus from music fans was that Ticketmaster was an evil and greedy company.
Sure, but it didn't translate into anything concrete. Pearl Jam suffered a lot by not being able to book major concert venues and pretty much stopped touring for a while. Ticketmaster went on to bigger and better things to where it's pretty much the only game in town for most artists/concert venues.
As video game pricing has shown, consumers don't give a shit about fair value when it comes right down to it.
What's really needed for the restaurant industry is for a co-op model where a bunch of restaurants in a city/locality pool together their resources to hire a fleet of delivery drivers and a common ordering platform.
A simple online-ordering system, plus a map that shows the location of the driver is all that's really needed. Craigslist makes tens of millions with a minimalist interface. No reason why you couldn't build a relatively cheap site like that for this co-op model.
Unfortunately no one has the incentive to build this platform for them. Because you can't return billions to your VCs this way.
Sure, but it didn't translate into anything concrete. Pearl Jam suffered a lot by not being able to book major concert venues and pretty much stopped touring for a while. Ticketmaster went on to bigger and better things to where it's pretty much the only game in town for most artists/concert venues.
As video game pricing has shown, consumers don't give a shit about fair value when it comes right down to it.
What's really needed for the restaurant industry is for a co-op model where a bunch of restaurants in a city/locality pool together their resources to hire a fleet of delivery drivers and a common ordering platform.
A simple online-ordering system, plus a map that shows the location of the driver is all that's really needed. Craigslist makes tens of millions with a minimalist interface. No reason why you couldn't build a relatively cheap site like that for this co-op model.
Unfortunately no one has the incentive to build this platform for them. Because you can't return billions to your VCs this way.