Ride-sharing veteran Uber on Friday filed a case against Dordash, in which the owners of the restaurant were intimidated in special deals and accused the delivery outfit of the stifling competition.
Uber accused in the trial, was filed in the Superior Court in California, that its main rival asked the restaurant to work only Off, Uber claims that Dordash, which holds the largest part of the food distribution market in the US, threatens restaurants with a multimilian-dollar penalty, or removing or demonstrating the position of businesses on the Doordarshan app.
In particular, Uber claims that Dordash pressed the restaurant to attack exclusive or nearly for the first-long-covered distribution services, which means that Dordash is kept completely through its websites of the restaurant. Emphasizes handling the orders, Uber says.
“There is no merit in the case of Uber,” said a spokesperson of a Dordash in an email for Techcrunch on Friday. “Their claims are baseless and are based on inability to provide a quality option to traders, consumers, or couriers.”
Doordash and Uber Eats are known for their respective apps to add restaurants, consumers and gig economy workers. Consumers use apps to find and order food such as pizza, egg rolls, or pad Thai from restaurants. A giggling economy worker then gives food to the consumer and eats.
But the two companies also compete with their own white-leble delivery services-which is called Uber Direct and Dordash Drive on-demand-which was launched in 2020. These services are inexpensive for restaurants, allowing the patrons to directly order the restaurants from their apps and the websites, while Uber and Dordash manage the courier behind the curtain.
Uber has claimed in his suit that Dordash manages first-party delivery for the largest environmental enterprise restaurants in the US, and alleges that Dordash used anticomatic practices to win the market.
More than 1 million traders with Uber Eats are partners as we have helped them reach more customers and provide them the freedom to decide how they want to develop their business with delivery, “Sarafraj Maradia , The US chief in Uber, said in an email statement in Uber. Hopefully, this filing eliminates those unfair practices so that the restaurant can choose what is the best for them without fear of penalty or vengeance. “
In an example of the trial, Uber says an anonymous “important restaurant company” told the company that it would not proceed with the long -employed rollout of Uber Direct in many of its restaurant brands. Uber claims, as Dordash has allegedly threatened to raise the rates that charge the restaurant company to use Dordash’s third-party distribution services, if it continues to use Uber Direct.
Uber says that this was not an unconvincing incident, but that many customers have told the company that they feel that “as they have a ‘gun,” that Dordash is a’ monopolistic ‘, and the door is a door. Is being threatened by
Uber has requested the jury trial; The company did not specify the amount of damage in the complaint. However, Uber claims that these anticompatural practices have given the company a cost of “millions of dollars in revenue” and also banned the development of Uber Direct.
