Comment by ethbro
6 years ago
It seems like it would depend on who's initiating the action.
While the restaurant preparing "partial" pizzas to ship to coordinated orders is obviously fraud, I'm not so sure "Asking the restaurant owner about their costs, then independently ordering a large number of pizzas" qualifies.
It's not your responsibility if Doordash has shit code and auditing. And given VC-onomics, it's not even clear how you would be certain this isn't "operating as intended."
> While the restaurant preparing "partial" pizzas to ship to coordinated orders is obviously fraud
How so? They're making the pizzas the way the customer wants them. The 'objective' tastiness is none of the delivery middleman's business. And there's nothing wrong with offering a bad pizza for $24, as long as the customer knows what they're getting.
Well, if the restaurant reimburses the customer after, it probably would become a problem.
Way around this: private owner places his own orders as customer, pockets profits as owner. That might be legitimate - but remember: if you take legal advice from the Internet, you get what you paid for.
Why does it matter if the owner is reimbursing their non-owning customers? Restaurants do that all the time.
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This depends on whether you think the pizza restaurant's customer is doordash.
You could make a good argument that this was the case. The restaurant sells to doordash, who paid for a pizza with toppings.
Doordash is buying it, but I think it makes more sense as "a pizza for Bob" than just "a pizza". I think it would be strange to ignore everything Bob says if he calls in asking for the pepperoni to be on one side.
Though none of this matters if there's a 'special instructions' box. Have a code word for bread pizza.
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> While the restaurant preparing "partial" pizzas to ship to coordinated orders is obviously fraud
Does Doordash allow customer menu modification requests? "No cheese, no tomato sauce, no onion" etc. That would also then fall under shit code and auditing :)