Commission capped at 15% | DoorDash, Grubhub, UberEats sue New York City

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The new regulation also prevents these companies from charging more than 5% for their other services, such as advertising.

The American metropolis, which initially wanted to help restaurants having to close their rooms in the spring of 2020 due to the spread of COVID-19, decided at the end of August to make this regulation permanent. The text has yet to be ratified by the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.

This decision is “unconstitutional”, represents an “unnecessary abuse of power on the part of lawmakers” and is “harmful” for the restaurant industry, say the platforms in their complaint filed Thursday evening in a federal court in the American metropolis.

This measure has already cost them “hundreds of millions of dollars” between its implementation and June 2021, they say.

DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats are therefore claiming damages, without specifying the amount, and the cancellation of the new law.

Their activity has skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic: for lack of being able or wanting to go to a restaurant, many consumers have turned to online orders.

This turning point allowed certain restaurateurs to keep their heads above water when they could no longer serve customers in the dining room.

But several local authorities have recently looked at the commissions billed, such as the San Francisco city council which adopted in June a measure similar to that of New York.

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