App-based food delivery workers in New York City currently make an average of $7.09 an hour. The city has announced it will increase the minimum wage for these workers to $19.96 an hour.
A little boy in Michigan ordered $1,000 worth of food when he gained access to his father’s food delivery app on Saturday.
The District of Columbia is suing Grubhub for deceptive trade practices, claiming that the company has exploited both customers and restaurants. According to the lawsuit, “The company deceived users with a promotion that claimed to support local restaurants during the heart of the pandemic. But in reality, this program cut into struggling restaurants’ profit margins while padding Grubhub’s bottom line.”
Takeout and delivery orders have offered many restaurants a financial lifeline during the coronavirus lockdown. But some dining establishments are falling prey to a new kind of dine and dash in which customers dispute legitimate credit card charges related to an order, forcing the restaurant to foot the entire bill.
In days past, if you were risking your life for low pay, that likely meant you were a soldier. The upside: survival skills, high status, a free college degree, and good benefits. These days, though, you can risk your life for low pay and get none of those benefits, as a member of the pandemic “Gig Economy.”
In a surprising turn of events, it seems that online meal delivery services are having a hard time dealing with the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Analysts at Deutsche Bank commented, “Whilst the COVID-19 outbreak could intuitively be seen as beneficial to online food delivery players, with millions of people under lockdown, we conclude that this is not the case.”
GrubHub is facing accusations that it is using a promotional discount to take financial advantage of restaurants at a time when many food establishments are relying heavily on delivery services to stay afloat due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
A recent report claims that delivery apps such as Seamless, GrubHub, and DoorDash are listing restaurants on their services that don’t even offer takeout options.
Food delivery services including GrubHub and Uber Eats are facing pushback from restaurants against the firm’s service fees.
A new study by US Foods found that approximately 28 percent of delivery drivers eat from the meals they courier to consumers’ doorsteps.
Three major players are breaking away from the competition in the food delivery service market. Uber Eats, GrubHub, and DoorDash are dominating the emerging industry in a similar fashion to Facebook, Google, and Twitter have dominated social media.
