A slew of area restaurants have been added to Grubhub’s delivery list recently without notifying them, and restaurateurs are not happy about it. “I would call it a scam,” said Derek Perez, the owner of El Banditos, who discovered his business was put on Grubhub’s website earlier this week despite the fact he has not made an agreement with them. […]
Category Archives: Restaurants
NYC Council bills aim to slash food delivery fees
Big Apple legislators are about to take a stab at regulating food delivery giants like Grubhub and UberEats. The New York City Council on Thursday will be presented with a package of six bills aimed at reducing the fees food delivery apps can charge city restaurants to 10 percent, down from as much as 30 […]
NYC May Soon Limit What Delivery Apps Can Charge Restaurants
City Council bill aims to slash food delivery fees In its latest effort to curtail the unfettered growth of food delivery services like Grubhub and Uber Eats, the New York City Council is set to introduce a package of bills today that will limit the amount of commission these apps can charge restaurants in the […]
Up to 91% More Expensive: How Delivery Apps Eat Up Your Budget
Uber Eats, DoorDash and Postmates might be convenient, but the apps are making you pay a juicy premium. After a long day, you have probably done some back-of-the-napkin math and decided there was no point in going out for dinner when you could get food brought to your door for the same cost, plus a […]
‘Nobody has a stellar record’: Popular food delivery apps may be advertising wrong prices, menus
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If you’re thinking about ordering delivery for dinner or lunch, take note. There are so many ways to get food delivered now with the different food apps, but they aren’t without their problems. In fact, Eyewitness News anchor John Paul found some local restaurants are fighting these companies and asking them not to […]
Grubhub, Doordash Sued by Restaurant Group Over Trademarks (2)
Food delivery app makers Grubhub Inc. and Doordash Inc. were sued by a New Hampshire restaurant group for allegedly infringing its trademarks by offering deliveries from its restaurants without permission. Great New Hampshire Restaurants Inc. said Monday that it has asked Grubhub and Doordash to remove the group’s listings multiple times because of complaints about the delivery […]
advantage in the food delivery war
Last month, the most coveted partnership in the UK takeaway sector came to an unceremonious end. Uber Eats lost the exclusive rights to make around 15 million McDonald’s deliveries each year in the UK, after the fast-food giant announced plans to open up the relationship to include major rival JustEat. On paper, the union was ideal. McDonald’s made […]
DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats in tight food delivery competition
The restaurant food delivery business is a wide open competition, with more than half of consumers that use these services using multiple apps at the same time, according to a Consumer Intelligence Research Partners report. Among consumers that have used a restaurant delivery service in the past 90 days, more than half have DoorDash, UberEats […]
Food Delivery Services DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Postmates Might Merge
One way to figure out how long someone’s lived in San Francisco is to bring up app-based food delivery. To folks who arrived here after their popularity (say, in the early 2010s), it’s a service that’s always been here and is too ubiquitous to fail. But folks who have lived here longer than that have […]
Is Delivery Delivering Results For QSRs?
MediaPost’s Steve Smith interviewed panelists Haley Janke, associate manager, digital strategy, at KFC Global, left, and Codie Richards, director, digital experience and deliver,y forCarl’s Jr./CKE Restaurants as they discussed negotiating with aggregators to get their products into their customers’ hands. The delivery companies like DoorDash, GrubHub and Uber Eats are all start-ups within the last […]