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- Tony Marciante is weaning his Maryland restaurants off of popular food-delivery apps.
- Marciante said the apps were cutting too far into his margins and had quality control issues.
- He now uses a white-label delivery service to take orders directly and pay a flat fee per delivery.
Tony Marciante has run Chef Tony's Seafood in Bethesda, Maryland, since 2007. When the food-delivery apps like DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub came out, he signed up, like many restauranteurs.
"They were a necessary evil," Marciante, 55, told Business Insider.