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a short collection of articles about Food delivery apps (DoorDash, Instacart, UberEats, and more)
Uber Technologies acquired 100% of Cornershop to make the Chilean startup part of its e-commerce long term bet at a reported ~USD3b+ valuation. The... (2021)
Chowbus founder Linxin Wen on how he built a fast-growing business around mom and pop Asian restaurants and their avid customers. (2021)
OpenTable has fired an employee for making hundreds of Chicago restaurant reservation using Reserve, a rival booking platform OpenTable Infuriat... (2018)
Elizabeth Dunn on how food-delivery apps are cutting into restaurants’ profits and eroding the dining experience. (2018)
with Ryan Caldbeck, Jeff Jordan, and Sonal Chokshi (2019)
The delivery companies are under fire from critics who say the companies are taking advantage of their workers with deceptive tipping policies. (2019)
On-demand food delivery startup Munchery is shutting down, the startup announced in an e-mail to customers on Monday. (2019)
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee. (2019)
Senate lawmakers passed a controversial bill, known as AB 5, after months of uproar from businesses and gig companies such as Uber and Lyft. The bi... (2019)
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the grocery delivery company has refused to offer its 175,000 gig workers basic protections like hazard pay, hand sa... (2020)
DoorDash & GrubHub charge restaurants an advertising fee and then use that money to pay Google to run advertisements that use our restaurant’s bran... (2020)
There is such a thing as a free lunch If capitalism is driven by a search for profit, the food delivery business confuses the hell out of me. Ev... (2020)
Uber announced Tuesday it is acquiring alcohol-delivery service Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash. (2021)