• City Council moves to extend food delivery caps on Grubhub, UberEats

    City Council moves to extend food delivery caps on Grubhub, UberEats

    Food-delivery companies like Grubhub and UberEats can expect their margins to get squeezed in the Big Apple for a while longer, The Post has learned. City Council members are slated to meet Aug. 13 to extend emergency legislation that caps the commissions and delivery fees those companies charge restaurants. Passed in May, the strict rules …
  • Councilman demands booze bill break for struggling NYC restaurants

    Councilman demands booze bill break for struggling NYC restaurants

    A New York City councilman wants state officials to give restaurants a break on strict rules for ordering booze that are weighing on their reopening plans. Manhattan Councilman Keith Powers urged the State Liquor Authority to temporarily lift rules that have landed legions of eateries on a “delinquent list” amid the coronavirus pandemic, as The …
  • NYC will impose 20-percent cap on restaurant delivery-app fees

    NYC will impose 20-percent cap on restaurant delivery-app fees

    The Big Apple’s struggling restaurants are about to get some relief on food-delivery costs as hungry New Yorkers increasingly order in during the coronavirus crisis. The City Council is expected to pass emergency legislation on Wednesday that will cap the commission fees that delivery apps charge restaurants at 20 percent during any government-ordered state of …
  • NYC Council to press food deliverers like Grubhub to stop charging restaurants fees

    NYC Council to press food deliverers like Grubhub to stop charging restaurants fees

    The New York City Council wants to ban food-ordering apps like Grubhub from charging most of their usual fees to restaurants during any government-ordered state of emergency, The Post has learned. The bill seeks to prohibit food-ordering and delivery apps like Grubhub’s Seamless Web site, UberEats and Doordash from profiting from Big Apple restaurants during …