This is PRECISELY the reason why, whenever I order take-out (about twice per week at minimum, since Covid) I always pick it up myself. And I tip 20%. I want al profit and tip to got to support the restaurant whereas I have no rationale for supporting DoorDash or UberEats. It is no problem and completely safe from an infectious-disease standpoint to pick up the food wearing a mask, and at least it keeps my aut0 batteries charged. Everyone should pick up up their own orders - until that happens, I support limiting the fees charged by the delivery companies, which comes straight from the restaurant's bottom-line.

An MD.

Simply put,

I agree with all above

There is a market for delivery services. Restaurants can choose which ones (if any) they want to interact with. Having the city make an arbitrary decision on what is the appropriate price strikes me as an example of a command economy. One unintended consequence of this would be for delivery services to no longer service Mountain View. The leadership in Mountain View needs to stop believing that they are the omniscient arbiters of the prices for goods and services in our town.

100% agree with @cancerfoe, we've made it a point to pick up our own deliveries (+ it helps with car battery).

The fees levied by these companies are a racket. Imagine if UPS ,Fedex or even USPS charged anything close to these fees for delivering goods ?

Agreed; if you can, pickup. And if you do, PLEASE wear a mask!
The picture of Oren's in Mountain View is especially disturbing: Every single day, there are DoorDash delivery people hanging out right outside, and they NEVER wear masks or gloves. I wish the city or county would crack down on that…

In response to Dan Waylonis you wrote:

“There is a market for delivery services. Restaurants can choose which ones (if any) they want to interact with.”

Yes so they choose not to, or the customers tell them to stop. Sound just fine to me you wrote:

“Having the city make an arbitrary decision on what is the appropriate price strikes me as an example of a command economy.”

Did the story even mention if the City was going to take any action? NO IT DIDN’T. The County is considering a cap. THe local City Council is just going to vote if it is IN SUPPORT of it. Why can’t you read the story? You wrote:

“One unintended consequence of this would be for delivery services to no longer service Mountain View.”

In reality it is a County matter, and if it passes in the County the WHOLE county will be capped, again read the story.. You wrote:

“The leadership in Mountain View needs to stop believing that they are the omniscient arbiters of the prices for goods and services in our town.”

They aren’t in this case, it appears that even the Chambers of Commerce is agreeing with this idea, both the City and the County. You really aren’t paying attention.