Uber is partnering with a cannabis retailer in Canada to allow cannabis purchases via its Uber Eats food delivery platform. The arrangement does not include delivery of weed orders, however, but makes it possible for users in Ontario to order products from Tokyo Smoke in a dedicated section on the Uber Eats app. For customers in Ontario, …
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Uber Eats is now allowing people in Ontario, Canada to order marijuana. However, the company won’t deliver the product, according to CNN. Instead, users will have to pick up their order from a Tokyo Smoke store. Canada legalized recreations marijuana in 2018. While the marijuana order option is only available in Canada right now, Uber’s CEO …
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The Federal Trade Commission is calling out technology firms and gig-based companies such as Amazon and Uber for potentially deceiving or misleading those in financial distress with money-making pitches during the pandemic. The commission on Tuesday put over 1,100 businesses — including gig-based companies such as Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub, and Instacart, along with multilevel marketing …
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At a Goldman Sachs conference last month, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi addressed legislation capping the commissions restaurants have had to pay Uber (Postmates’ parent company) and other large delivery companies in recent months. Short-term regulation is unpredictable, but “long-term regulation is smart,” he said, because it follows common sense. Uber and other restaurant delivery companies like DoorDash are …
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Food-delivery companies DoorDash (DASH) – Get DoorDash Report, Uber Eats (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies, Inc. Report, and Grubhub (GRUB) – Get Grubhub, Inc. Report fell after New York City passed legislation to tighten regulation on the industry and boost delivery workers’ rights. The measures require restaurants to grant couriers access to bathrooms. They set minimum per-trip payments as well as a guarantee …
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Lowenstein successfully represented ChowNow in the case. The Hon. Roger Thomas Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California found that ChowNow properly removed a patent dispute case, originally filed against it in California state court by Ameranth, Inc., to the Southern District of California. Finding that the court had federal …
Dive Brief: DoorDash filed a lawsuit against New York City on Wednesday objecting to a ordinance that requires third-party ordering and delivery companies to share customers’ personal information with restaurants with each order. “The Ordinance imposes virtually no restrictions on what restaurants may do with that data, and it does not mandate any data-security requirements once …
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Regulators are coming for the food delivery companies. Recently, New York City and San Francisco placed permanent fee caps over how much third-party delivery services could charge restaurants. The companies were charging as much as 30% per order until various cities cracked down on them during the pandemic and capped how much they could charge. …
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Food ordering and delivery platforms DoorDash, Caviar, Grubhub, Seamless, Postmates and Uber Eats have banded together to sue the City of New York over a law that would permanently limit the amount of commissions the apps can charge restaurants to use their services. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that the companies filed suit …
One of the sectors of the U.S. economy that has seemingly thrived through the COVID-19 pandemic—indeed, because of the pandemic—has been food delivery services. Buoyed by successful firms like GrubHub and DoorDash, food delivery apps have benefitted from increased demand due to social distancing and shelter-in-place orders during the pandemic. The top four delivery apps saw a …
