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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j0med4c wrote

Reply to comment by fredmau5 in BAGEL CONSPIRACY by fredmau5

This is actually pretty common even before apps.

Places sell food under a few names, same basic menu +/- a few items. Get a few phone numbers one for each brand.

Asian places have done it for a long time. One will be Chinese, another will be American Chinese, another is some kinda fusion. 99% same menu. Let’s them market and track marketing returns better.

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Ezl t1_j0narm0 wrote

Paradise Deli, the bodega on Newark off Coles, has 3 or 4 listings in Grub Hub - one for sandwiches, one saying the specialize in Philly Cheesesteaks, etc. Funny thing is, if you’ve ever seen the place it’s not somewhere you’d ever order food from, all their GH reviews are awful (spoiled food, terrible product, etc.) and yet they push their food really hard - (misspelled) menus items plastered all over the storefront, pushing different “specials” every day, etc. It all seems so bad that they can’t be making any money from it and yet they persist.

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pixel_of_moral_decay t1_j0ncxvl wrote

Yea. My former coworkers used to collect menus from places they ordered/picked up. You could browse the stack for that chunk of midtown. At one point someone noticed several had the same address. Searching on Yelp showed it was just aliases for the same place… and same deal: all crappy reviews.

Once their reputation is blown they just start a new one. They keep the existing name to not loose existing customers. Cost is basically a print order for some menus to throw in bags and a Google voice number.

Maybe this is OCD, but if I order from some place new, I put it in Google maps and see what comes up. Is it a real place?

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