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Your wedge: Delivery Profit Guardian
“The platforms are quietly eating far more than New York lets them charge. The auditor finds every leak and sends you a P&L digest each Monday.”
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What it’s closing
Three leaks in a room like yours
Fraudulent refunds
2–3% of your delivery sales vanish to order disputes — and up to 60% of refund claims involve customer fraud, including AI-doctored food photos filed for automatic refunds. You lose the food, the labor and the revenue.
Billing & reconciliation errors
About 7% of orders change mid-flight — driver cancels, items 86'd, address swaps — and never reconcile against your payout. Single-location audits have caught six figures in invalid platform fees over time.
Hidden junk fees
New York caps base commissions at 15% — so platforms shifted to inflated processing markups, phone-order routing fees and relabeled surcharges that add an extra 2–15% back on top.
Figures are industry estimates for independent New York venues or simulated demo results. Your real baseline gets measured on site.
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Where Delivery-Heavy usually go next
Nobody buys the whole suite on day one. This is the order that tends to make sense for delivery-heavy operations, once the first agent has earned its keep.
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