Apps Break Cities, Just Like Highways Do

On Tuesday, GrubHub sent New York restaurants into a tailspin with a free lunch promotion. Between 11am and 2pm, the food delivery app offered $15 off any order made from restaurants around the city. Grubhub’s platform crashed as it was receiving 6,000 orders a minute. Restaurants saw queues blast past their capacity to fill them, … Continue reading Apps Break Cities, Just Like Highways Do