The Uber traveling giant filed a lawsuit on Friday against the doors, accusing the wearing of obstructing competition with fear of restaurant owners in exclusive deals.
Uber claims in a lawsuit, filed in the California Supreme Court, that her rival boss harassed the restaurants just to work with Dobordash. Uber claims that Dobordash, which holds most of the food distribution market in the US, threatens restaurants with multimillion dollars or removing or relocating the business position in the Dobordash app.
Specifically, Uber claims that doordas restaurant pressures to hit exclusive or near-exclusive arrangements for first parties’ delivery services, which means that doordash insists on handling only orders placed through restaurant websites , says Uber.
“The Uber case has no merit,” a Dobordash spokesman told an email for Techcrunch on Friday. “Their claims are unfounded and based on their inability to provide traders, customers or couriers a quality alternative.”
Dobordash and Uber Eats are best known for their respective applications to connect restaurants, consumers and concert economics workers. Customers use applications to find and order food such as pizza, egg rolls or Thai pillow from restaurants. An employee of the concert economy then collects and gives food to the consumer.
But both companies also compete with their white label distribution services called Uber Direct and the Dobordash Drive to the request-both began in 2020. These services are cheaper for restaurants, allowing customers to order Directly from restaurant applications and websites, while Uber and Doordash manage the couriers behind the scenes.
Uber claims with her lawsuit that Dobordash deals with the shipments of the first parties for more than 90% of the largest enterprise restaurants in America, and claims that Dobordash used anti -incompet practice to win the market.
“More than 1 million partner traders with Uber Eats because we have helped them achieve more clients and provide them with the freedom to decide how they want to grow their own businesses,” Sarfraz Mardia, Chief of America For surrender to Uber, said in a statement by email. “We have heard more and more complaints from restaurants that Dobordash tactics are limiting that freedom and punishment of searching for the best options. We hope that this appearance ends unfair practices so that restaurants of choose what is best for them without fear of punishment or punishment. “
In an example of the lawsuit, Uber says that an “important name of restaurant” told the company that will not move forward with a long planned Uber Direct participation in some of its restaurant brands. The reason, Uber claims, is because Dobordash allegedly threatened to raise the rates that the restaurant company charges to use third parties’ provision services if he continued to use Uber Direct.
Uber says this was not a single event, but on the contrary, many clients have told the company they feel “as if they have a” gun in their heads “, that Dobordash is a ‘monopolist’, and that they are being bullied by Doordash ”
Uber has requested a jury trial; The company did not specify the amount of damages in the complaint. However, Uber claims that these anti -compliant practices have dedicated to the “millions of dollars income” company and also limited Uber Direct growth.
