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Business for Uber’s food delivery app is surging in New York City since the coronavirus lockdown started — and nearly all the growth is coming from hungry customers in the outer boroughs and lower-income neighborhoods, The Post has learned. Food orders for the Uber Eats app are “way up” overall in the Big Apple, according …
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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 …
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Lyft on Wednesday said it has launched a new on-demand delivery service to provide essential goods, including groceries, meals and medical supplies, to people in need during the coronavirus crisis. The US company said the offer will also provide earning opportunities to drivers suffering from a near-total collapse in demand for ride-hailing trips. The company …
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Restaurant customers may be paying higher prices for food — whether delivered or not — thanks to the rise of apps like Grubhub and UberEats, according to a new lawsuit. Grubhub, UberEats, Postmates and DoorDash have been engaging in anticompetitive practices through contracts that dictate what restaurant customers can charge for food orders that weren’t …
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Amazon’s grocery delivery services will no longer accept any new customers, at a time when locked down shoppers desperately look for alternatives to brick and mortar grocery stores. Anyone who enrolls beginning Monday will instead be added to a waitlist — with an indefinite wait time. Prior to the announcement Sunday, Amazon customers have complained …
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A pandemic forcing everyone to stay home could be the perfect moment for online grocery services. In practice, they’ve been struggling to keep up with a surge in orders, highlighting their limited ability to respond to an unprecedented onslaught of demand. After panic-buying left store shelves stripped of staples like pasta, canned goods and toilet …
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Papa John’s said sales are jumping as customers hunkered down amid the coronavirus crisis have been ordering up pizzas for delivery, even as they steer clear of its restaurants. The pizza chain said Tuesday that its comparable sales in North America rose 5.3 percent in the three months ending March 29 even as the pandemic …
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is being asked to prioritize food deliveries to people with disabilities during the coronavirus lockdowns that have made it harder for them to stock their pantries. The American Network of Community Options and Resources has told Bezos via letter that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are among the Americans “left …
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New York’s once-thriving restaurant scene is fast becoming a graveyard. Less than a week after being ordered to close all dining room service and focus solely on takeout, eateries are pulling the plug on that business, too. Takeout and delivery orders in the face of crescendoing coronavirus contamination fears just aren’t pulling in enough dough …
Business for Uber’s food delivery app is surging in New York City since the coronavirus lockdown started — and nearly all the growth is coming from hungry customers in the outer boroughs and lower-income neighborhoods, The Post has learned. Food orders for the Uber Eats app are “way up” overall in the Big Apple, according …
