actowiz

  Introduction TL;DR: Actowiz compared 40,000+ identical menu items from 1,800 restaurants listed on all three apps across 12 US cities. Findings: in-app menu prices ran 24% above the restaurants' own listed prices on average; the same dish differed across the three apps in 48% of cases; and the fee stack — service fee + delivery fee + regulatory fees — created up to $8 of checkout difference on a standard $30 order, varying sharply by city due to local fee-cap regulations. The Question Behind Every US Delivery Order US food delivery is a three-platform market where the listed menu is only the start of the price. Markups set per-platform by restaurants, service-fee percentages, city-specific regulatory fees, and membership programs (DashPass, Uber One, Grubhub+) all reshape the final checkout. We scraped all three to quantify each layer. Methodology Platforms Covered: DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. Cities Covered: New York City (NYC), Los Angeles (LA), Chicago, San Francisco (...