SASKATOON --
While delivery services may be convenient for customers, they are costly for restaurants.
“The third-party apps, they charge a large commission towards the restaurant,” said owner and operator of Hudsons, Greg Clark. “They charge anywhere from a 15 to 30 percent commission that they are charging on each order.”
For a business trying to survive the pandemic, those costs are becoming more noticeable. Due to COVID-19 restrictions around seating capacity for restaurants their delivery sales have spiked.
“When we’re highly reduced right now and a lot of our revenues are coming off takeout and delivery it impacts us a lot more to be losing off that bottom line,” said Clark.