Your $15 Burrito Costs $27 (And the Restaurant Still Loses Money)

Your $15 Burrito Costs $27 (And the Restaurant Still Loses Money) A burrito costs $15 in the restaurant. Order it on a delivery app, and by checkout — before tip — it's $27. Here's the part that should shock you: the restaurant that made it often gets paid LESS than if you'd walked in. Same burrito. Same 15 minutes of cooking. Both sides lose. This is The Price Tag — one order, two victims. In this episode, we follow the money from both directions — what the restaurant loses to commission, and what you pay in stacked fees — and expose how delivery apps profit from both sides of the exact same transaction. 00:00 - The $15 vs $27 Burrito 00:36 - Side 1: What The Restaurant Loses 02:06 - Side 2: What The Customer Pays 03:27 - The Hidden Mechanism (Double Squeeze) 04:53 - Where The Money Actually Goes 05:17 - Next Time On The Price Tag Same object. Every extreme. This is The Price Tag. #doordash #ubereats #economicsexplained #priceofthings