COLORADO SPRINGS — The pandemic is especially tough on restaurants right now, as dining rooms are closed in many places for a second time. However, restaurant owners are getting creative to make sure their businesses survive the winter season and the rest of the pandemic. Because of the second shutdown, many restaurants like Paravicini’s Itialian …
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As restaurants struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, many have turned to delivery apps to serve customers until it is safe to return to dine-in service. But the fees these companies charge have left restaurant owners reeling. City councils in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., have recently voted …
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Santa Monica will join several cities across the country in limiting the fees that food delivery apps can charge restaurants. Restaurants have been serving takeout and delivery exclusively for the last two months with the help of third-party delivery apps, which charge a sizable commission on each order. Many restaurants that grudgingly accepted a 20% …
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Authored by Ranjan Roy via The Margins substack, If capitalism is driven by a search for profit, the food delivery business confuses the hell out of me. Every platform loses money. Restaurants feel like they’re getting screwed. Delivery drivers are poster children for gig economy problems. Customers get annoyed about delivery fees. Isn’t business supposed to …
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New York just passed a temporary 15% cap on third-party delivery commissions and a limit of 5% on marketing contributions and other related fees. And Uber Eats, which just made a bid to buy Grubhub, is locked in a bitter feud with Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop. Food delivery is booming during the pandemic, and …
Food delivery service Grubhub (NYSE:GRUB) is recovering slightly today after being down more than 12.5% in trading yesterday following its first-quarter 2020 results. Though the pandemic made home delivery soar across the industry, Grubhub posted a net loss of $33.4 million for the quarter, a sharp drop from the $6.9 million in net income it reported in Q1 2019. The …
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DoorDash, Grubhub, Postmates, and Uber Eats have come out against a Jersey City order that would not allow third-party food delivery services to earn more than 10 percent in fees, calling the measure “misguided and potentially disastrous.” “The extreme executive order issued today in Jersey City to limit the amount that restaurants pay to offer …
Pierogi Mountain cited the cost of doing business with third-party delivery services in its recent decision to temporarily close up shop, and other restaurants have expressed similar frustrations with the financial model as delivery orders continue to dominate amid COVID-19 shutdownsIn late April, Pierogi Mountain announced it would temporarily close, citing the frequency of shopping …
Baltimore, Boston, and Washington, D.C. all recently joined the growing list of cities imposing mandatory caps on the commission fees third-party delivery services charge restaurants. San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, and Los Angeles have already passed similar measures or are considering them. The D.C. Council passed emergency COVID-19 legislation on Tuesday that, among other things, capped commission fees at …
uring the COVID-19 pandemic, many stores without an internal delivery service have turned to apps including Grubhub, DoorDash, Postmates or UberEats, providing them access to an online store and a vast network of drivers, but at what cost? Giuseppe Badalamenti, a consultant and owner of small business Chicago Pizza Boss, published a picture he claimed …
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