‘Last Week Tonight’ Examines Food Delivery Apps and Who Loses | Laptop News

Whether you’re in the mood for a hefty meal or craving a single slice of cake on a rainy afternoon, food delivery apps make our lives a lot easier when it comes to having that food brought to our door. The logic of the food delivery cost versus benefit sometimes seems just too good to be true — which means that, of course, somebody is getting the bitter end of that logic. On its new episode, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver took a deep dive into the food delivery apps universe and broke down how it works at four levels: customers, restaurants, delivery people and the app itself.

The first and easiest part of that deal is ours: Customers who sit at home waiting for their food to arrive. We often get the best deal possible, with somewhat reasonable prices, the comfort of not having to walk out of our homes and even get to catch up on Physical 100 while we wait. Easy, breezy. It is not so easy for restaurants, though. As you probably imagine, food delivery apps take a chunk of their revenue for making the bridge between their service and customers. But sometimes that bite is way too big, which is why restaurants are forced to charge more for a meal inside the food delivery apps so that they can still keep some profit.

But sometimes restaurants have to jump through hoops to make this profit happen, especially when you factor in cases such as Grubhub listing food that a particular restaurant doesn’t even have on the menu. What…