The Ride-Share Uber giant filed a lawsuit on Friday against Doordash, accusing the delivery of the competition that stifles the intimidatory restaurant owners in exclusive agreements.
Uber claims that in the lawsuit, which was filed with the California Supreme Court, that his chief opponent intimidates his restaurants only working with Doordash. Uber claims that Doordash, which holds the largest share of the US distribution market in the US, threatens many millions of dollars or removing or degrading business positions in the Doordash application.
Specifically, Uber claims that Doordash Presures restaurants to hit exclusive or almost exclusive first -party delivery agreements, which means Doordash insists on exclusive order management placed through restaurant websites, says Uber.
“Uber’s case has no value,” a Doordash spokesman said in an email to TechCrunch on Friday. “Their claims are unfounded and based on their inability to offer traders, consumers or couriers an alternative to quality.”
Doordash and Uber Eats are best known for their respective applications to connect restaurants, consumers and economic workers. Consumers use applications to find and order foods such as pizza, eggs or pad Thai from restaurants. Then a concert economy employee takes and delivers food to the consumer.
But the two companies also compete with their own white label delivery services-called Uber Direct and Doordash Drive on custom-which both started in 2020. These services are cheaper for restaurants, allowing patrons to order directly from Restaurant applications and sites, while Uber and Doordash manage the couriers behind the scenes.
Uber claims in its suit that Doordash is handling first -party deliveries for more than 90% of the largest restaurants in America and claims that Doordash has used anti -tantamine practices to win the market.
“More than 1 million traders work with Uber Eats because we helped them approach more customers and gave them the freedom to decide how they want to develop their businesses with tradition,” Sarfraz Maredia, America’s leader for tradition at Uber, said in an e -mail statement. “We have heard more and more complaints from restaurants that doyordash tactics limit this freedom and punishing them to seek better choices. We hope this deposit will put an end to these unfair practices so that restaurant better for them without fear of sentence or punishment.
In an example from the lawsuit, Uber says that an anonymous “important restaurant company” told the company that it would not proceed with a long development of Uber directly in many of its restaurant brands. The reason, Uber claims, is because Doordash is said to be threatened to increase the rates that the restaurant company is charging to use Doordash’s third -party delivery services if it continued to use Uber Direct.
Uber says this was not a one -off event, but rather that many customers have told the company that they feel that they “have a” weapon on their head “, that Doordash is” monopoly “and that they are intimidated by Doordash. ”
Uber requested a jury trial. The company did not clarify the amount of compensation in the complaint. However, Uber claims that these anti -athletic practices have cost the company “millions of dollars in revenue” and also limits the development of Uber Direct.
