{"id":1197,"date":"2021-03-09T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:45:05","slug":"prof-sriram-quoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/09\/prof-sriram-quoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Sriram Quoted in Article About Restaurant App Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/vsriram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1198 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/vsriram-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On Mar. 8, 2021, Professor of Marketing Ven Sriram was quoted in a <em>Baltimore Sun<\/em> article titled <u>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/food-drink\/bs-fo-app-cap-praised-by-restaurant-owners-20210308-ewx73ix56re5tkrf2gsx55g624-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Between an app and a hard place: Baltimore restaurants get temporary break on fees, but worry about the future<\/a>,&#8221;<\/u> written by Christina Tkacik.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA restaurant is between a rock and a hard place,\u201d said Ven Sriram, who chairs the department of marketing and entrepreneurship at the University of Baltimore. Three companies dominate the delivery industry: Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub.<\/p>\n<p>And consolidation among them \u2014 Uber Eats acquired Postmates last year while DoorDash acquired Caviar and Grubhub now owns Seamless \u2014 has created giants, making it harder for restaurant owners to negotiate individually. \u201cA single restaurant needs the delivery service more than a delivery service needs a single restaurant,\u201d said Sriram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mar. 8, 2021, Professor of Marketing Ven Sriram was quoted in a Baltimore Sun article titled &#8220;Between an app and a hard place: Baltimore restaurants get temporary break on fees, but worry about the future,&#8221; written by Christina Tkacik. \u201cA restaurant is between a rock and a hard place,\u201d said Ven Sriram, who chairs<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/2021\/03\/09\/prof-sriram-quoted\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,164,215],"tags":[217,216,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/merricktoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}