Jack Dorseys’s payments company Square announced a new option for restaurants and stores to have products delivered to customers. Wednesday’s announcement comes less than a year after Square announced the sale of its food delivery business Caviar to DoorDash. It underscores Square’s effort to beef up online offerings for small businesses that are being hit especially …
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New meal-delivery company promotions benefiting black-owned restaurants are raising legal questions about whether gig economy giants can offer race-based benefits. The programs, announced by Uber Eats and Postmates following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, waive delivery fees for black-owned restaurants but make no such benefit available to other minority or …
As many people rely on meal-delivery services during coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines, multiple apps are experiencing outages Friday night. Postmates, Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub have all seen reports of issues during the evening. “We’re currently experiencing issues with the DoorDash platform,” DoorDash tweeted Friday. “Please know that we’re doing everything we can to resolve this as quickly as …
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Bringg, a leading delivery orchestration platform, announced today that Postmates, a leader in on-demand delivery will be part of the BringgNow solution. Small and medium sized restaurants and grocers using the free BringgNow delivery solution can now deploy two of the country’s largest and most advanced delivery fleets with a single seamless integration, providing users …
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An appeals court in New York has concluded that Postmates couriers are employees entitled to unemployment insurance (In re Vega, No. 13 (State of New York Court of Appeals, March 20, 2020)). Postmates, according the court, is a delivery business that uses a website and smartphone application to dispatch couriers to pick up goods from local restaurants and stores …
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The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that Postmates couriers are employees and therefore eligible for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ruling is actually a reinstatement of a 2015 decision, which found that former Postmates courier Luis A. Vega was eligible for unemployment benefits after he was terminated from the service. Postmates had appealed the …
Have you ever ordered dinner through an app, only to watch your driver circle around and cancel on you? You might be ordering from a restaurant that’s not even open, or doesn’t know it’s listed on that app. In January, we wrote about restaurants that were added to GrubHub without their knowledge or consent, spotlighting a Twitter …
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A random Google search last week led Andrew Moyes to a Grubhub site offering shipping Moo’s Craft Barbecue, smoked popcorn specializing in beef brisket and jalapeño cheddar sausages. But there was one problem. Mujozi is the cook and owner of Mui. As far as he knew, Moe had never executed a delivery order during the three …
Pittsburgh restaurant fighting food delivery apps, claim they hijacked their menu PITTSBURGH — A local restaurant is calling out several food delivery service apps, claiming their menu was hijacked and they’re being forced to participate in the take-out service. It all came to a head with a heated confrontation this week between a GrubHub driver and …
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 …
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