Apps like GrubHub or Uber Eats are about to see stricter regulations in Boston. The Boston City Council has approved a new ordinance that will require third-party food delivery apps to get a permit to operate in the city. The council voted 11 to 2 to pass the ordinance proposed by Mayor Michelle Wu. It’s in response …
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A proposed bill would levy a twenty-eight cent tax against delivery services like DoorDash and GrubHub, with the potential for the fee to increase annually. The bill would impose the tax on “retail deliveries,” defined as “a retail sale of tangible personal property by a retailer for delivery by a motor vehicle to the purchaser at a …
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Uber Technologies sued DoorDash, accusing its biggest food-delivery rival of anticompetitive practices that jack up costs for restaurants and consumers. In a suit filed Friday in state superior court in California, Uber accused DoorDash of coercing restaurants to exclusively work with DoorDash for parts of their delivery business. Uber said DoorDash threatened higher commission rates …
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Ride-share giant Uber filed a lawsuit Friday against DoorDash, accusing the delivery outfit of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive deals. Uber alleges in the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of California, that its chief rival bullied restaurants into only working with DoorDash. Uber claims that DoorDash, which holds the largest share of the food …
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Delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub won’t have to share detailed customer data with restaurants in New York City, a federal judge said on Tuesday. Judge Analisa Torres ruled that a law requiring delivery services to hand over things like customers’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers and addresses violates the companies’ First …
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This year, Seattle implemented an extreme minimum pay law for app-based workers, including Dashers. After more than six months, the law continues to fail to deliver promised benefits for Dashers, all while raising costs for consumers and harming Seattle’s restaurants and small businesses. We discuss the impacts to Dashers below and compare the experience of …
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Eaze Technologies, Inc., the San Francisco-based cannabis delivery service, recently informed its employees that it plans to shut down operations, according to an internal source. Eaze reportedly made a company-wide announcement this week that it will wind down its operations within the “next two months.” The company serves customers in Michigan and various cities throughout …
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If you’re the kind of person who likes to get a private taxi for your burrito, the cost of that taxi just went up: On Thursday, August 1, DoorDash began adding a $1.99 fee to “long distance” orders, the delivery app company said in a blog post, a fee that comes on top of the $4.99 “regulatory …
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Mia Shagen has delivered for DoorDash via electric bicycle and scooter since 2020. She moves between cities throughout the year but has always called Seattle her home. She isn’t sure she can stay, though. Shagen says she’s never made so little delivering for DoorDash. Take Wednesday, Aug. 14: Shagen worked five and a half hours, …
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Grubhub Inc. must face a proposed class action in Illinois federal court for allegedly using restaurants’ trademarks without permission and listing them on its food delivery app without their consent. U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois ruled Tuesday that trademark infringement and false association claims by MF Tasty LLC and Iowa City …
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