On-Demand Delivery Marketplace Domain Knowledge Questions

Domain knowledge about on-demand, multi-sided delivery marketplaces (food delivery, quick-commerce, and similar gig-economy logistics platforms), including how such platforms match customer orders to couriers, manage courier/delivery-partner supply and onboarding, structure merchant/restaurant partnerships, set pricing and incentives, forecast demand, and run fulfillment operations at city scale. Covers marketplace liquidity and two/three-sided network effects, order-routing and ETA trade-offs, take-rate and unit economics, merchant and courier onboarding programs, fraud and trust/safety considerations, and the regulatory and compliance issues common to gig-economy delivery platforms (worker classification, payment/data security, background checks).