'They said they could drop me any day, and they don't negotiate fees.' 'I asked them, 'I'm bringing in three times as much money to Seamless as before. With Seamless, the opposite was happening.

When he orders more from his vegetable supplier, the price goes down.

When his monthly orders increased to over $10,000, Seamless raised its take from 10 percent to 14 percent. There was a $150 a month 'marketing fee' that he couldn't understand, and Seamless only paid him every 30 days, which left him chronically short of cash. 'We had to hire another delivery guy.'īut then little things started bugging Munoz. 'Almost the business started picking up,' he says. And at first, Munoz really liked the results. The commission seemed high - they'd take $1 out of every $10 order - but he was willing to give it a try. Two years ago, Munoz signed up with Seamless. 'The more business we bring Seamless, the more commission they charge us,' says Pedro Munoz, who owns Luz, a Latin-American restaurant in Brooklyn. It's a big improvement.īut if you're a restaurant, this shift to the web may not sit so well with you. No more shouting into the telephone receiver, hoping to make yourself understood to someone in a noisy kitchen. If you're a takeout or delivery customer, websites like Seamless and Grubhub are a marvel. For restaurants, the costs of being on these websites can be hard to swallow. Together, they'll allow diners in 500 cities the convenience of ordering from thousands of restaurants with just a few clicks on their computer. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes.

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