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Actually some third party companies will list businesses even if the business doesn't offer delivery, so long as they have online ordering. The only solution would be to not allow take out of any kind.
I don't drive and live a bit from the city centre; I try not to do it often as I'm a poor, but occasionally order takeaway.
Once I rang a store to ask why certain items from a deal were missing and they said they were not running such a deal and were very fed up with people requesting it. Seems the site (might've been justeat but was a while and memory is fallible) had inserted a deal where none existed.
Yeah, spot on. There was a local pizza pub I used to frequent that would always get upset because door dash and grub hub would add their business without permission. The place offered delivery (pizza duh), but hated third party delivery because it took business away from their drivers (you kinda want a critical mass of business to justify having delivery) and they often had customers call in to complain that their order/deal/special was wrong. I remember the manager would look on delivery sites each week and call any that had listed the business without their permission.
Running a franchise must be stressful enough, insane that they have to actively police websites adding them without their consent on top of that.
Or require ID to pick it up….
So would the business just not make the food until you show up with your ID or do they throw away orders for people who don't have a matching ID? Also, what about people who don't have an ID at all?