[mschaecher]

No they can work fine anywhere just like Dominos can.

They just need to get transaction/delivery volume up, so that density of orders shrinks the coverage area for any given "driver agent".

Scaling while trying to maintain balanced supply and demand key.

Moderate increase in delivery density can mean step changes in efficiency and almost all other aspects of these businesses.

Source: I work at Munchery mentioned in the article but I'm from Nebraska originally and delivery drove in collge.