Underunderstood

By Select Works

Recorded for Awesomeness

S1 E5

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Published August 06, 2019 6:00am

Adrianne tries to order from a local sushi restaurant, but an unfamiliar voice answers, promising "awesomeness." Awesomeness for whom?

Show notes:2:16 - “GrubHub is buying up thousands of restaurant web addresses. That means Mom and Pop can’t own their slice of the internet,” published June 28, 2019 by H. Claire Brown at The New Food Economy.13:07 - Dark patterns13:54 - A report about Munish Narula’s class action lawsuit from Nation’s Restaurant News14:19 - “Restaurateurs across the country say they are waking up to a years-long, high-tech bamboozling by Grubhub involving hidden fees for orders that never happen...

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