We started looking and talking to a lot of the restaurant owners in the area. “It’s so difficult for so many restaurants just to stay open. “Now we move into the era of COVID-19, where we saw the restaurant and hospitality industries just decimated,” he added. “We were seeing these charges that were coming up and how difficult it was for these businesses to pay these high fees. “We saw what was happening to our local restaurants, especially in communities like mine, local mom and pop, immigrant-owned restaurants,” he told The Indypendent. Even as the city begins to reopen, much of their food orders remain takeout or delivery and the problem has been exacerbated.Ĭity Councilmember Fransisco Moya from Corona, Queens proposed a cap on delivery service fees before the coronavirus pandemic began in New York City. Restaurant owners have long been calling for a change in the way these services, GrubHub in particular, do business. ‘You pay, you work, and then they get the money.’ Commissions have been capped at five percent plus another fifteen percent if restaurants are using the third-party delivery drivers up until 90 days after the statewide lockdown has been lifted. On May 13, City Council passed a bill that caps the amount of delivery, marketing and service fees that GrubHub and other third-party delivery services can charge restaurants per delivery.
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