Do you live in New York? Are you looking for a food delivery platform where you don’t have to wait on the merchant to make the food? Do you want to have full-time employee benefits? Enter JOKR.
Last week, this delivery company caught my attention when it launched in New York.
An Uber Eats Driver was in tears after getting $1.19 tips. He spent an hour on this order. Uber Eats paid him $2 for the order. Total: $3.19.
“What’s that? That’s not even enough to cover gas!”
He posted an emotional TikTok video with the user name @deliveryguy100 wishing people would know what it was like to drive for food delivery brands like Uber Eats and DoorDash.
The merger between Grubhub and Just Eat Takeaway has resulted in Grubhub facing lawsuits from investors.
Grubhub announced that it is facing 14 lawsuits alleging that it deceived investors about its merger with Just Eat Takeaway.
Some significant moves took place in the grocery space, with Amazon and Instacart announcing changes to their platform. Instacart will launch 30-minute grocery services in 15 major cities while Amazon will shut down Prime Now and move it to the main app.
Grubhub will hold a special meeting of its stockholders (the “Grubhub Special Meeting”) to vote on a proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger with Just Eat Takeaway.com
The New Hampshire Senate is contemplating legislation to govern how third-party food delivery apps operate with local restaurants, citing concerns that the apps have listed some restaurants without their permission.
Members of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee voted 5-0 last week to mandate food delivery apps to enter into specific agreements with restaurants before including them in their apps.
Some people with insider knowledge about DoorDash have leaked to Bloomberg that DoorDash is looking to do business in Europe. The company is inquiring to acquire a food delivery brand already operating in Europe, particularly Germany or the UK.
At the end of April, the Biden administration established a task force to look into if the government can reclassify gig workers into full-time employees. Now gig economy brands like DoorDash, Uber, Lyft, etc., are looking for ways to work with the administration to preserve flexibility for gig workers.
Grubhub was making misleading sites for restaurants it didn’t partner with. Freshcraft sued. Now, Grubhub settles a class-action lawsuit over non-partnered listings. According to court records, Grubhub settled a class-action lawsuit brought by restaurant company CO Craft doing business as Freshcraft in May 2020. The food delivery platform produced “misleading sites” on its app and website for restaurants that don’t partner with Grubhub, causing customer confusion.
Following a filed 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, DoorDash and Olo have reached a settlement agreement after DoorDash sued Olo last month.
