"Tony Delivers" - just order your food and send him a screenshot

Rimu@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.world – 1027 points –

https://seattle.eater.com/2024/2/21/24079162/tony-delivers-seattle-delivery-app-fees-downtown

Tony Illes was working as an Uber Eats delivery person when an ordinance passed last year by the Seattle City Council came into effect in mid-January. The new rule required app companies to pay workers like Illes a minimum wage based on the miles they travel and the minutes they spend on the job. The apps say that this amounts to around $26 an hour, and both Uber Eats and DoorDash responded by adding $5 fees to every order (even when the customer is outside Seattle city limits) while calling for the law to be repealed. According to a recent DoorDash blog post, the ordinance has resulted in an “unprecedented drop in order volume,” a drop that Illes felt personally. He told Geekwire that “demand is dead” and told local TV station KIRO 7, “I didn’t get an order for like six hours and I was done.”

So Illes had an idea: Who needs these apps, anyway? He printed up signs with QR codes directing people to a bare-bones website with his phone number, promising that he would deliver food by bike in Uptown, South Lake Union, Belltown, and a chunk of the downtown core for $5 a pop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily. All you had to do was order the food and send him the screenshot. He called himself “Tony Delivers.”

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A girl did something like this in brazil but with nudes. She got really popular after she posted videos on tik tok and got sued by the government for advertising porn and then got even more popular.

But there are tons of these women, I don't really understand why this one stands out? Lemmy has its own collection of women self-posting nudes as, I assume, marketing for something that pays them money.

There's a lot of women putting fliers on the street advertising their only fan?

I mean, is it the fliers that make it special? That seems like a really strange distinction to get the government involved.

Sorry, in what way is that like this? Like, she put up flyers to advertise her porn after she got sued by the government for advertising porn?

She put fliers like the one OP posted, made tik tok videos putting the fliers and got really popular. Some government agency saw that and sued her for doing advertising of sex services, newspapers reported about it and got even more popular. At some point on the story she paid for big billboards too.

A screen for the OG tik tok that made her famous: