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Boodleheimer

okay, granted i'm in a small town, but seriously! aren't gas prices through the roof? how can all these restaurants afford to deliver?

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Wondering the same thing, but I think this is like one of those "caramilk" question.

periwinkle · Joined: 08 Feb 2003

I think they pay the drivers next to nothing. If they didn't do deliveries, I bet they would have a big decrease in sales. They also have a very, very limited delivery range, from what I've noticed (in reference to kim bap jips and Chinese food, especially).

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

crazykiwi · Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Location: new zealand via daejeon

those bikes run on next to nothing. as does the food they make i would imagine. not that big a cost really.

ForceOne · Joined: 25 Aug 2005

How can they afford NOT to deliver?

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

It's an investment. They likely get over ten times the customers because they deliver. I think some deliverymen are freelance and deliver for several restaurants.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

i wonder how the restaurants can afford to COOK with gas.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

I used to want to grow up to be a Chinese food delivery boy and spin around town on a scooter. Looked cool to me. Then I heard they only get W3,000 an hour. My new goal: Popcorn Boy at Base Camp (same wages, but beer and popcorn included).

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

The real question is why the price of jjajang hasn't budged for 10 years.

capebretoncanadian · Joined: 20 Feb 2005

I asked a Korean friend and her take on it is that most of the delivery guys are either owners of the restaurants or sons, daughters, relatives of theirs that they can get away with paying nothing or next to nothing.

seoulsista · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

How do the taxi drivers make any money? They seem to spend so much time hanging out too.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

I alwasy wonder about the prices too. Like will the price of gimbab EVER change from 1000? It seems like no one would want to be the first to do it. It is such a set in stone price it seems, along with a lot of the other korean "fast food" (like bibimbap, jiggaes, etc.)

pocketfluff · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

They make a profit because the cost of producing a bowl of Ja-jang-myung is about 4 cents.

I hate that stuff. It doesn't taste like Chinese food. It looks and tastes like gravy made by 5 year- olds.