{"id":9843,"date":"2019-04-22T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2019-05-19T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T21:40:26","slug":"the-geeks-should-just-stick-to-microwave-burritos-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/22\/the-geeks-should-just-stick-to-microwave-burritos-please\/","title":{"rendered":"The Geeks Should Just Stick To Microwave Burritos, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Vanity Fair<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW SILICON VALLEY TURNED YOUR BURRITO INTO A CAPITALIST NIGHTMARE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The food-delivery industry wasn\u2019t broken, but venture capital set out to disrupt it anyway. The result is overpriced services that frustrate restaurants, are hated by drivers, and drive customers crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY NICK BILTON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"\/
\u00a9 20th Century Fox\/Everett Collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We all rag on Silicon Valley for saying it\u2019s going to make the world a better place. But let\u2019s be realistic: the roughly 50-square-mile area surrounding the San Francisco Peninsula has, indeed, made our lives better in innumerable ways. Look, there\u2019s a machine in our pockets that allows us to take a thousand photos a day, access the world\u2019s information, and do things we never could have dreamed of in the past, like deposit a check without having to go to the bank or drive out of state without getting lost. Thanks to Silicon Valley, you can book flights while you\u2019re sitting on the toilet, get laid while you\u2019re sitting on the toilet, order toilet paper while you\u2019re sitting on the toilet. It\u2019s all pretty magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is, however, one area in which Silicon Valley has made our lives worse: food delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, before I go on a vehement rant about how infuriatingly bad food-delivery services are\u2014how sneaky, and self-enriching they are, how they cheat customers, screw over restaurants, and make the world a worse place\u2014I must disclose that I am not just an angry customer here. My first job in high school, after working at McDonald\u2019s for 17 minutes\u2014long story\u2014was delivering food. I worked for Sal\u2019s Italian Restaurant in Florida, zipping pizzas and baked ziti all through Turtle Run and Coral Springs. Later, I was the head delivery driver (yes, head!) for the local wing shop. Here was the thing that was different back then: you picked up the phone, you called and asked for your food, we\u2019d tell you exactly what it cost, exactly how long it would take to get to you, and we\u2019d put it in packaging to ensure it was still blazing hot and fresh when we rang your doorbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at Vanity Fair<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Vanity Fair HOW SILICON VALLEY TURNED YOUR BURRITO INTO A CAPITALIST NIGHTMARE The food-delivery industry wasn\u2019t broken, but venture capital set out to disrupt it anyway. The result is overpriced services that frustrate restaurants, are hated by drivers, and drive customers crazy. BY NICK BILTON We all rag on Silicon Valley for saying it\u2019s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}