Protect Our Restaurants
Food delivery apps like Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates, and Doordash are exploiting restaurants, workers, and consumers, and driving restaurants out of business. They need to be regulated so they can’t use their market power to exploit restaurants and take money out of our local economies, especially during the pandemic.
Right now, food delivery apps like Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates, and Doordash are causing huge problems for restaurants and communities. While restaurants grapple with the catastrophic consequences of COVID-19, these Wall Street-funded predatory actors are charging hidden fees, roughly 30% of every transaction, manipulating delivery workers, and exploiting restaurants, workers, and consumers, in some cases driving restaurants out of business. Increasingly food delivery apps are opening their own “ghost kitchens” so that they compete with the very restaurants dependent on their services. This is wrong. Food delivery apps are a simple technology that should simply help connect people who want to order from restaurants with restaurant owners and workers who make their food.
The goal of the Protect Our Restaurants is to bring together restaurant owners, workers, civil society groups, and consumers to persuade policymakers to regulate food delivery apps so they can’t use their market power to exploit restaurants and take money out of our local economies.
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About Us
Our mission is to ensure that all entrepreneurs and independent businesses have a fair opportunity to build, grow, and compete in a marketplace free from abuse of dominant corporations and predatory finance.
Protect Our Restaurants is a project of The American Sustainable Business Association, The American Economic Liberties Project, and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
The American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) is the leading business organization serving the public policy interests of responsible companies, their customers and other stakeholders. Founded in 2009, its membership represents over 250,000 businesses in a wide range of industries.
The American Economic Liberties Project is an independent, non-partisan organization focused on combating concentrated economic power, abusive monopolies, and predatory finance.
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a research and advocacy organization that builds local power to fight corporate control. ILSR partners with allies across the country to create an American economy driven by local priorities and accountable to people and the planet.