Delivery Apps Are Forcing L.A. Restaurants to Adjust to a Take-Out World—or Risk Starvation

As technology turns ordering in into the new dining out, many local restaurateurs are slinging food from ”ghost kitchens” throughout the city
Maureen Harrington • Los Angeles Magazine • January 29, 2020
Canter’s is the Dodger Stadium of delis. The enormous menu; the nearly 24-hour service; the Kibitz Room, home to generations of rock and rollers and late-night rabble-rousers—none of it has changed in years. And it’s not going to. At least not so...
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