Grubhub has reportedly bought domain names and created copycat websites These dummy sites look almost exactly like the restaurants’ actual websites but were set up without the restaurant owners’ permission The shadowy practice known as ‘cybersquatting’ is an apparent effort to increase the commissions restaurants have to pay to Grubhub They have to pay a …
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Liquor Authority mulls eatery delivery fee cap
Measure would stop services like Grubhub from adding over 10% A new regulatory measure being considered by the State Liquor Authority would prohibit food-delivery companies like Grubhub from charging restaurants a fee of more than 10 percent of each order total, a sharp drop from the 25 percent to more than 30 percent most currently …
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Restaurant owners furious over Grubhub billing revelations
This is gearing up to be one ugly food fight. Restaurant owners have been digging into their Grubhub billing records and demanding their money back since reading The Post’s about how the food delivery giant has been racking up fees for non-existent orders — potentially for years. Nicky Perry, owner of two Manhattan hot spots, …
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Ledo Pizza settles trademark lawsuit with Postmates
Ledo Pizza has reached an undisclosed settlement in a trademark lawsuit against food delivery service Postmates. Postmates allows consumers to use a website or mobile phone application to order products from local businesses and have them delivered. Postmates charges a fee for the delivery. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore last …
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AB 5 Update: California Senate Committee “Suspends” Discussion, For Now
With the resumption of the current legislative session on August 12, 2019, the California Senate Appropriations Committee briefly considered Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), the legislature’s purported solution to the California Supreme Court’s opinion in Dynamex v. Superior Court (Dynamex). In Dynamex, the Supreme Court abruptly changed longstanding law governing worker classification, and exposed thousands of California businesses to …
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State agency targets Grubhub with proposal to cap fees
In the latest attack on Grubhub’s businesses model, a New York state agency proposed a cap on how much third-party companies can earn helping restaurants with food orders. The New York State Liquor Authority says it wants to prevent third-party food companies from charging more than 10% commission for delivering food or for helping to generate orders …
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NY wants food delivery commission cap
The New York State Liquor Authority wants to cap third-party food companies at a 10% commission for deliveries or for helping generate orders — unless the companies become partners on the state liquor license. Food delivery companies currently charge as much as 30% and GrubHub (NYSE:GRUB) is the state’s largest deliverer. Uber Eats (NYSE:UBER), DoorDash (DOORD), and Postmates …
Waitr asks Louisiana federal court to toss fee hike suit
Waitr Holdings Inc. is asking a Louisiana federal court to drop Bobby’s Country Cookin’ LLC’s suit accusing the food delivery app of breaking its contract with thousands of eateries last year by raising the fee it charges per order. In a July 22 motion to dismiss the suit, Waitr alleges the proposed class action fails because the lead plaintiff …
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DoorDash Tip Suit Is Just Another Chapter In The Gig Economy’s Crummy History
A new class-action lawsuit addresses one of numerous long-running and embarrassing problems among gig-economy companies: in this case, tip skimming. Just days after food-delivery platform DoorDash faced significant backlash in light of a New York Times reporter’s piece about his time as a ‘Dasher,’ a class-action suit was filed in Brooklyn this week about that very issue. The suit was filed in …
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Schumer demands Grubhub CEO refund all overcharges
Sen. Chuck Schumer has been in talks with the chief executive of Grubhub over bogus fees the food-delivery giant has been charging restaurants nationwide — and is demanding that the company cough up refunds going back for years. In an exclusive interview with The Post, Schumer said he spoke with Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney last …
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