The purpose of this site is to aid and promote restaurants in the Halifax Regional Municipality free of charge.
How critical is it for eateries that we order directly from them? Read about it in the following articles:
- Why buy local? https://bcbuylocal.com/why-local/
- Five reasons to think local: https://www.independentderry.co.uk/post/2019/01/09/buy-local-or-bye-local-5-reasons-to-think-local-in-2019
- Why you shouldn’t use delivery apps: https://www.tacotarianlv.com/2020/05/19/you-shouldnt-use-delivery-apps-heres-why/
- The convenience of delivery apps is destroying restaurants: https://www.eater.com/22228352/convenience-of-delivery-apps-destroying-restaurants-uber-eats-doordash-postmates
- How to order takeout ethically: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/5/20679021/grubhub-boycott-how-to-seamless-doordash-takeout-food-restaurant-order-direct
- Apps fees hurting restaurants: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/apps-fees-hurting-restaurants-1.5557768
- The slim profit margins of Canadian restaurants: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/210204/dq210204b-eng.htm
- Why Uber eats will eat you into bankruptcy: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cameronkeng/2018/03/26/why-uber-eats-will-eat-you-into-bankruptcy/
- The truth about Uber Eats, Doordash, and Skip The Dishes: https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-truth-about-uber-eats-doordash-and-skip-the-dishes/
- Profit margins of restaurants: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-gPS89gaGV/?igshid=1p9me5uxvpdp7
- Restaurants generating a quarter of their usual revenue during COVID-19, workers wages no longer subsidized by tips: https://www.tvo.org/article/its-time-to-abolish-tipping-once-and-for-all
- Commissions charged by delivery apps: https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2020/04/food-delivery-app-commission-toronto-restaurants/
- Restaurant delivery app alternatives: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/business/restaurant-delivery-alternatives/index.html
- Why restaurants hate Uber Eats: https://www.afr.com/technology/why-restaurants-hate-uber-eats-20190716-p527lt
- Restaurants hate third party delivery: https://thespoon.tech/restaurants-hate-third-party-delivery-services-actually/
- How delivery apps may put your favorite restaurants out of business: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/are-delivery-apps-killing-restaurants
- The ugly truth about delivery apps: https://aycockmarketing.com/blog/ugly-truth-about-delivery-services-doordash-grubhub-uber-eats-restaurants/
- Some are skipping apps to support local businesses: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/13/small-business-third-party-apps/
- Food delivery apps are hurting restaurants: https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/food-delivery-apps-hurting-restaurants/
- How food delivery apps are killing restaurant jobs: https://www.businessinsider.com/are-food-delivery-apps-killing-restaurant-jobs-2019-8
- Help for small restaurants: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/not-uber-eats-launches-help-100000180.html
- Why do restaurants hate Uber Eats: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-restaurants-hate-Uber-Eats
- Keeping it local: https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/salt/keeping-it-local-new-east-coast-delivery-options-being-created-to-compete-with-global-food-ordering-services-443721/