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Because when people don't get exactly what they want, they blame the restaurant instead of the Grubhub employees who messed up. The restaurant loses business, grubhub makes a quick buck.

It's at the very least a trademark violation, this is exactly what trademarks were set up to prevent.



You’re allowed to use a trademark to factually describe a product. If I have legitimately bought an iPhone and I’m offering to resell it to you I can use the iPhone trademark to do that.


You're not, however, allowed to list your phone number as the number for the Apple Store and start taking orders on their behalf.




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