Quoting Ken Patterson (dpriso...@dvillage.org): > BASFA is proud to announce our first in-person meetings since Monday, March > 9, 2020!!! > > Mondays, April 15 & 22, 2024 at 8 p.m. > Parktown Pizza > 3039 Meridian Ave, San Jose (between Hillsdale & Foxworthy)
Sounds good! > Menu: > https://order.online/store/parktown-pizza-company-san-jose-1061787/?hideModal=true > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is a DoorDash ordering site. However, https://parktownpizza.com/ does link to order.online (DoorDash) for menu viewing, so it's OK: A little checking finds several indicators that order.online is showing a real restaurant-produced and authorized menu, and that parktownpizza.com itself is actually operated by the restaurant chain, not by a third party. Just some cautions I urge about this mode of outsourced information _in general_, as there are some very shady tricks being pulled, such that the above-cited things can no longer be taken on faith: In some other cases, whole unauthorized sites purporting to be those of restaurants get put up by delivery service: GrubHub in particular is infamous for doing so: As part of that scheme, GrubHub promotes its fake sites for restaurants on Yelp.com (through a marketing deal between those firms) , and then if you call the telephone number on the fake site's menu, you reach a GrubHub call center, not the restaurant. Then, often, the food order goes not to the restaurant but to a "ghost kitchen", and GrubHub of course take a huge cut whether it goes to a ghost kitchen or not. And Yelp.com doubtless gets some of your money, too. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjwebw/yelp-is-sneakily-replacing-restaurants-phone-numbers-so-grubhub-can-take-a-cut These days, the best way to ensure that you have a restaurant's real menu and real telephone number is to take home one of the on-paper take-out menus and/or business card from the front of the restaurant, itself. Add those to the pile held by magnets to your refrigerator, and trust those, not Web-searching and certainly never contact info on Yelp. Speaking of vice.com, say goodbye to a worthwhile site. Vice Media was bought seven months ago by a private equity firm, Fortress Investment Group, and was recently squeezed dry and everyone laid off. Not that the company ever was soundly run. (A/o end of February 2024, no new content will appear on vice.com.) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/vice-media-shane-smith-1235837714/ -- Cheers, "Every bit of complexity you add is a failure point." Rick Moen -- Adam Savage r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
