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The first food delivery in the United States was in 1889. Then in the 1950’s the milkman was created. He would deliver milk cartons to houses. That revolutionized the idea of dropping off food to homes with no way of buying food, like homes in the west. Kids would also deliver things like honey on their bikes. The milkman is still an icon today, as there are still milk deliveries, but by companies instead. The milkman inspired companies like UberEats (2014) and DoorDash, (2013) which are our food delivery companies today.

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The human impacts are that the industry is bad for local restaurants, and restaurants without food delivery services. It’s also bad because it has also put many restaurants, and waiters out of business and without jobs. But this adds more jobs for apps like DoorDash or GrubHub. Anil Bathwal owns The Kati Roll Company, a group of New York City restaurants serving Indian food. If someone ordered two kati rolls for about $12, the apps took a lot of that sale. Roughly a 17% commission on top of a fee for delivering the food to someone's door. In the end, Bathwal said that a kati roll purchased on the delivery app would net his restaurant about $7. Food delivery services are putting restaurants out of business by setting unprecedentedly high delivery fees. Recently, more and more restaurants are demanding that third-parties like Uber Eats reduce fees set for each order. Dining venues lose significant revenue by paying a percentage for each delivery. Then there are the health issues, like the pollution, and not being able to pay for things you need. So many people getting deliveries is adding more cars to the streets, causing way more gas in the air and pollution. Also since the workers and restaurants are making so much less money than before, they can not afford necessary things like food, or medical bills.

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Sales of Restaurants Now That Food Deliveries Are More Popular.

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Sales of Restaurants Now That Food Deliveries Are More Popular.

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The environmental impacts are that people are harming the earth and causing things like pollution and landfills.
"I want to engage people and get them excited about food waste prevention, so we send less food to the landfill or compost," he says. "The goal here is to broaden the scope of what is edible." Alone, Food Runners founder Mary Risley estimates Food Runners delivers 16 tons of food a week, enough to make 5,000 meals a day. Also the cars that are used, and gasoline wasted, have almost doubled since before food deliveries. Each year, 119 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That's equal to 130 billion meals and more than $408 billion in food thrown away each year. Nearly 40% of all food in America is wasted. And then there are the containers that food delivery companies provide which are used once, and then wasted.

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"The big opportunity we thought Uber Eats had, just got bigger," Khosrowshahi said. Some restaurant owners say that online food deliveries are hurting their businesses, and their earnings have dropped a whopping 40%. “Given the impact it could have on the restaurant sector at a time of deep peril for the industry.” Said Analyst White. They are struggling to survive. Also the pandemic really affected this issue. During the pandemic there was a 45% drop in customers for restaurants, and a massive 60% increase in food delivery services. This also means that the restaurants workers salaries have now been affected, their salaries have dropped a whole 20%. That's massive when you are trying to live off of it.

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Food runners are doing a program where they use food that people would say has gone bad, or would not eat, and make actual good food people will love. This way there will be way less landfills, and wastes of food. “There's a videographer on hand to document the sight and sound of the city's garbage guys on their routine rounds picking up the city's recyclables and waste.” “But then not captured on camera, the aroma of decomposing organic matter destined for a landfill or compost location.” Perlsweig said. Individuals can also work on how they are using and not using the food in their kitchens. But a problem with this program would be that there is still more pollution caused, because of the fact that they would be driving to deliver the food. But if we use sustainable transportation to deliver, it would be the perfect solution. There are many other things we can do to make it better. Like biking or walking, but the main idea here is to stop pollution, and stop wasting food!