Uber avoids a lawsuit while DoorDash and Grubhub face the city’s legal teams in court (via eaterchicago)
, pulled down the page after about a year: “We severed the relationship with both companies,” Rubin says. “But after that, we were able to come back [to Uber Eats] and reestablish a relationship through a new representative, someone who cared and understood what we were going through… There’s been a very different tenor at Uber Eats over the past four months, and I don’t know why. It seems like a very different company and that’s been a surprise to us.
The settlement also made clear that Uber and the city “wish to settle, compromise, and resolve any and all claims, demands, disputes, fines, penalties, violations, citations, and all causes of actions and claims.” That distinguishes Uber from rivals DoorDash and Grubhub, which have publically denied wrongdoing and have vowed to fight the lawsuits. Last week, a DoorDash spokesperson told Eater Chicago that the parties are a long way from any resolutions.
Likewise, the city’s news release stresses that “Uber quickly repaid $3,331,892 to Chicago restaurants that had been charged commissions exceeding 15 percent, in violation of the City’s emergency fee cap ordinance.“expired in April 2021In addition to that amount, Uber will pay another $2,250,000 “in restitutions” to Chicago restaurants that were charged commissions that exceeded the 15 percent emergency cap.
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