'Stakeholders want to bleed us dry? ...Ok': Pizza parlor gets price gouged by 40% by a food delivery company, then they use the company's deliveries as free advertising for far cheaper ‘in-house’ deals, scoring a slew of regulars as a result

When you're feeling both lazy and hungry, the only way to satiate your needs is to fork out a little extra dough. While many of us are ashamed of what we would spend to have a minimum wage employee deliver takeout straight to our door during a summer thunderstorm, most of us will happily go online to feed ourselves out of convenience, spending far more for a pizza than any person should. 

However, when this restaurant decided to team up with a large food delivery company, they found that they were losing money instead of making more. Why? Because they were getting price gouged on the back end of the app by more than 40%, bleeding away their profit margins straight into the pockets of a huge company. 

To solve this pizza parlor's problem, the restaurant owner decided to capitalize on food app delivery regulars by raising his prices by nearly double and advertising far cheaper 'in-house' delivery pricing on the food's packaging. Now that's one way to make corporate greed work out in your favor. Keep scrolling to read all the details of this lemon-to-lemonade story that sticks it to the big guys.