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DASHED

Dashed, Inc. (stylized as DASHED) was a US restaurant delivery service founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Phil Dumontet in 2009. The company provided rapid delivery for over 800 restaurants that don't have their own services in Baltimore, Boston, Hoboken, New Haven, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, DC. Dashed was acquired by Grubhub in August 2017 and on October 17, 2017, the Foodler website that Dashed operated through was shut down and all ordering migrated to GrubHub.

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Dashed, Inc. (stylized as DASHED) was a US restaurant delivery service founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Phil Dumontet in 2009. The company provided rapid delivery for over 800 restaurants that don't have their own services in Baltimore, Boston, Hoboken, New Haven, Philadelphia, Providence and Washington, DC. Dashed was acquired by Grubhub in August 2017 and on October 17, 2017, the Foodler website that Dashed operated through was shut down and all ordering migrated to GrubHub.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2009 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2009". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359492717

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