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Fakes Are Flourishing on Dining Apps

"They just won’t stop. They’ll take it down for a little while and it'll be back up like three weeks later,” one local restaurant owner says

Fakes Are Flourishing on Dining Apps

Fakes Are Flourishing on Dining Apps

"They just won’t stop. They’ll take it down for a little while and it'll be back up like three weeks later,” one local restaurant owner says

Fakes Are Flourishing on Dining Apps
For the last few years, the well-designed Abe’s Pagoda has been fashioning a kind of Tiki-tinged take on Chinese fare on Wyckoff Avenue. But earlier this month, they noticed that someone else was also using the handsome, Godfather-y moniker to sell a similar selection of miso-spiced dishes on DoorDash.

The only problem was that Abe’s Pagoda already listed its menu on other dining apps, like Grubhub and its subsidiary Seamless. Nonetheless, there Abe’s Pagoda was on…

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