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13 minutes of gig news in 13 minutes or less
December 14th, 2025
BOULDER IS FORCING DOORDASH TO DELIVER FOR FREE
Every few days I ignore an Uber Eats email offering “$15 of free food.” One reason: It is not free. As Uber Eats notes, “Restaurants with limited tracking excluded. Taxes, Delivery Fee, and a Service Fee still apply. New users only.”
I prefer eating in restaurants or getting takeout, but sometimes necessity forces me to use a delivery app. I hate all the unrecyclable plastic that delivery produces. I’m stunned by the price tag, and the delivery ETAs are almost always wrong.
Next, I expect these third-party apps to start charging higher prices for delivery during peak hours, just like the ride-sharing apps.
That’s why a recent announcement from Boulder’s Big Red F Restaurant Group caught my eye:
“As of today, you will no longer find Big Red F Restaurants on DoorDash, UberEats or GrubHub. Delivery platforms are bad for small independent restaurants. Their fees are simply too high.”
That means you can’t order enchiladas from Centro Mexican Kitchen, seafood chowder from Jax Fish House, the West End Tavern’s barbecue or fried chicken from The Post on any ordering app.
According to chef Dave Query, Big Red F’s owner, the company had no choice.
“We really went hard into third party delivery this year, especially at The Post, on DoorDash and GrubHub. At the end of the day, it’s just bad revenue. We were up to 30 percent fees per order and it was just not sustainable,” he says.
“Door Dash and Uber Eats lost billions of dollars until the last year or so. They climbed to profitability on the backs of their restaurant clients and all of their guests.”
Big Red F is now offering delivery through the websites of its individual restaurants. “Guests order everything in the same way they always did. It is delivered by DoorDash, but it’s not ordered through their platform. We offer a flat-rate fee for delivery. Whether they order $10 worth of food or $1,000 worth of food, it’s $4.99,” Query says.
“It’s a good thing for everybody. You’re going to save money and it helps restaurants find ways to cut costs during this incredibly hard time.”
#doordash #grubhub #ubereats #fooddelivery #gigwork
13 minutes of gig news in 13 minutes or less
December 14th, 2025
BOULDER IS FORCING DOORDASH TO DELIVER FOR FREE
Every few days I ignore an Uber Eats email offering “$15 of free food.” One reason: It is not free. As Uber Eats notes, “Restaurants with limited tracking excluded. Taxes, Delivery Fee, and a Service Fee still apply. New users only.”
I prefer eating in restaurants or getting takeout, but sometimes necessity forces me to use a delivery app. I hate all the unrecyclable plastic that delivery produces. I’m stunned by the price tag, and the delivery ETAs are almost always wrong.
Next, I expect these third-party apps to start charging higher prices for delivery during peak hours, just like the ride-sharing apps.
That’s why a recent announcement from Boulder’s Big Red F Restaurant Group caught my eye:
“As of today, you will no longer find Big Red F Restaurants on DoorDash, UberEats or GrubHub. Delivery platforms are bad for small independent restaurants. Their fees are simply too high.”
That means you can’t order enchiladas from Centro Mexican Kitchen, seafood chowder from Jax Fish House, the West End Tavern’s barbecue or fried chicken from The Post on any ordering app.
According to chef Dave Query, Big Red F’s owner, the company had no choice.
“We really went hard into third party delivery this year, especially at The Post, on DoorDash and GrubHub. At the end of the day, it’s just bad revenue. We were up to 30 percent fees per order and it was just not sustainable,” he says.
“Door Dash and Uber Eats lost billions of dollars until the last year or so. They climbed to profitability on the backs of their restaurant clients and all of their guests.”
Big Red F is now offering delivery through the websites of its individual restaurants. “Guests order everything in the same way they always did. It is delivered by DoorDash, but it’s not ordered through their platform. We offer a flat-rate fee for delivery. Whether they order $10 worth of food or $1,000 worth of food, it’s $4.99,” Query says.
“It’s a good thing for everybody. You’re going to save money and it helps restaurants find ways to cut costs during this incredibly hard time.”
#doordash #grubhub #ubereats #fooddelivery #gigwork
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13 minutes of gig news in 13 minutes or less
December 14th, 2025
BOULDER IS FORCING DOORDASH TO DELIVER FOR FREE
Every few days I ignore an Uber Eats email offering “$15 of free food.” One reason: It is not free. As Uber Eats notes, “Restaurants with limited tracking excluded. Taxes, Delivery Fee, and a Service Fee still apply. New users only.”
I prefer eating in restaurants or getting takeout, but sometimes necessity forces me to use a delivery app. I hate all the unrecyclable plastic that delivery produces. I’m stunned by the price tag, and the delivery ETAs are almost always wrong.
Next, I expect these third-party apps to start charging higher prices for delivery during peak hours, just like the ride-sharing apps.
That’s why a recent announcement from Boulder’s Big Red F Restaurant Group caught my eye:
“As of today, you will no longer find Big Red F Restaurants on DoorDash, UberEats or GrubHub. Delivery platforms are bad for small independent restaurants. Their fees are simply too high.”
That means you can’t order enchiladas from Centro Mexican Kitchen, seafood chowder from Jax Fish House, the West End Tavern’s barbecue or fried chicken from The Post on any ordering app.
According to chef Dave Query, Big Red F’s owner, the company had no choice.
“We really went hard into third party delivery this year, especially at The Post, on DoorDash and GrubHub. At the end of the day, it’s just bad revenue. We were up to 30 percent fees per order and it was just not sustainable,” he says.
“Door Dash and Uber Eats lost billions of dollars until the last year or so. They climbed to profitability on the backs of their restaurant clients and all of their guests.”
Big Red F is now offering delivery through the websites of its individual restaurants. “Guests order everything in the same way they always did. It is delivered by DoorDash, but it’s not ordered through their platform. We offer a flat-rate fee for delivery. Whether they order $10 worth of food or $1,000 worth of food, it’s $4.99,” Query says.
“It’s a good thing for everybody. You’re going to save money and it helps restaurants find ways to cut costs during this incredibly hard time.”
#doordash #grubhub #ubereats #fooddelivery #gigwork")
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