The giant giant Uber submitted a lawsuit against Doordash on Friday and accused the delivery outfit of the vomit competition with intimidated restaurant owners into exclusive offers.
Uber claims in the lawsuit, submitted to the Supreme Court of California, that the main competitor only bullied the restaurants by working with the work Doordash. Uber claims that Doordash, who has the largest part of the food market in the United States, threatens restaurants with multi-million dollar punishments or the removal or downgrading of the position of companies in the Doordash app.
In particular, Uber claims that Doordash Pressures Restaurants are exclusive or almost exclusive for initial provider delivery services, which means that Doordash insists on editing only orders that are made via the restaurants’ own websites, says Uber.
“Uber’s case has no earnings,” said a Doordash spokesman in an e -mail to Techcrunch on Friday. “Your claims are unfounded and are based on your inability to offer a high -quality alternative to offer dealers, consumers or courage.”
Doordash and Uber Eats are best known for their respective apps to combine restaurants, consumers and gigeconomy workers. Consumers use the apps to find and order foods such as pizza, egg rolls or Pad Thai from restaurants. An employee of the GIG Economy then records the food to the consumer.
However, the two companies also compete with their own white marking services above Direct and Doordash Drive on-demand-, both of which were introduced in 2020. These services are cheaper for restaurants and enable customers to order and order and order directly from their own apps and their own apps from the restaurants. Websites while Uber and Doorash manage the couriers behind the scenes.
In his complaint, Uber claims that Doordash deals with the provider deliveries for more than 90% of the largest corporate restaurants in America, and claims that Doordash has used competitive practices to win the market.
“More than 1 million dealers work with Uber Eats because we have helped them reach more customers and decide the freedom to decide how to expand their business with delivery,” Sarfraz Maredia, Head of America, to Uber too delivered. said in an e -mail declaration. “We have increasingly heard complaints from restaurants that Doordash’s tactics limit this freedom and punish them to look for better options. We hope that this registration ends these unfair practices so that restaurants are best for them for them without fear of punishment or retaliation. “
In an example from the lawsuit, Uber said that an unarmed “important restaurant company” told the company that it would not continue with a long -planned introduction of Uber Direct in several of its restaurant brands. The reason, says Uber, is that Doordash is supposed to threaten to increase the prices that the restaurant company uses to use Doorash’s third-party delivery services if it continues to use via direct.
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Uber has requested legal proceedings; The company did not state the amount of the compensation in the complaint. However, Uber claims that these competitive practices cost the company “millions of dollars of sales” and also restricted the growth of Uber Direct.
