A Bangalore salad QSR operator complains that Swiggy and Zomato take around half of each order, making delivery unprofitable.

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        "excerpt": "As someone who doesn’t prefer eating salad- what kept me going to Subway in UK but never after first time in India-\n• super crisp veggies\n• smell of the breads\n• loaded meat\n• the reward plan that made my every Xth sub free.\n\n Someone did that with burger in Pune. With a stamped reward card.\n\n I never order salad home. I love to see it. May be- try a tiny portable setup where the crowd hangout. Pe",
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        "excerpt": "Difficult to diagnose a business with such a short context. But some questions come to mind if you want to think about them yourself or share (you can also DM). Answers to these questions (and others) will help you decide on \"fix it, pivot or close.\"\n\n Cities/Locations of operation? Just BLR? Just 1 location? Then a lot depends on that location - if you are reaching the right customers there etc.",
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        "excerpt": "I had my own startup in the food space and have worked extensively with Swiggy as an employee.\n\n First of all MOST new food businesses DO NOT get profitable within 1 year. Many popular brands which are VC funded are still not profitable after 5-6 years.\n\n Given limited information you have shared here are two things to consider\n\n Is your revenue (net of discounts) increasing and at what rate ?\n\n I",
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        "excerpt": "If you want to build brand based on salads, I feel people who will visit and eat would be not very significant number, try going the cloud kitchen route first where you can build brand where many people will discover your brand and products, while trying to somehow service those customers whom you get on zomato and Swiggy to order directly from you, keep a delivery boy who can fulfill all those or",
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      "[post] Most of our orders come through Swiggy and Zomato.",
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