SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uber and Lyft Offering Half-Price Rides to Polling Places; Uber Eats, Others Offering Election Night Discounts Too Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft are both offering 50%-off rides to polling places all day today, so you should take advantage if you're feeling lazy and still haven't voted. And you can score discounts and freebies on GrubHub, Uber Eats, and at Krispy Kreme.
Business & Tech SF-Based Weed Delivery Service Eaze, Once Valued at $700 Million, Shutting Down By Year’s End The company that called themselves “the Uber of Weed” is going up in smoke, having blown through $250 million in venture capital but now announcing they’ll likely cease operations on December 31.
Business & Tech After Buying Alcohol Delivery App Drizly For $1.1B, Uber Is Shutting It Down Three years after acquiring alcohol delivery app Drizly, Uber is shutting the platform down and moving all liquor delivery services to Uber Eats.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: SF’s 15% Delivery-Fee Cap Effectively Ends Next Week, When New ‘Compromise’ Deal Kicks In After San Francisco was first to adopt a pandemic-era fee cap for third-party delivery sites like DoorDash and Grubhub, a compromise deal will take effect here January 31 where the apps can go back to charging way more than 15%.
Business & Tech DoorDash Engineers Furious They Have to Deliver Food Once a Month The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Permanently Caps Delivery App Fees For Restaurants at 15% The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to permanently cap the per-order fees that delivery apps charge to restaurants at 15 percent — extending what had been a temporary cap put in place during the early months of the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Are Scaling Back Takeout Offerings As Demand Slips The great takeout boom of 2020 and early 2021 looks to be headed for a bust as more SF restaurants restart indoor dining and prepare to eventually get back to something like normal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Ghost Kitchen Insanity: That Blowfish Sushi On DoorDash Isn't the Real Blowfish Sushi, Which Closed Last Year The former owner of Blowfish Sushi to Die For is preparing legal action after a ghost kitchen opened in the former Blowfish space at 2193 Mission Street, using the Blowfish name and logo and fulfilling delivery orders on DoorDash and Seamless.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
Business & Tech Uber Acquires Alcohol-Delivery App Drizly For $1.1 Billion Once again showing that the company's priorities have shifted since the pandemic began, Uber has just purchased Boston-based booze-delivery app Drizly, so that you can make sure to get a side whiskey brought to your door with your burger and fries.
Business & Tech Uber Lays Off 15% of Postmates Staff, Just Two Months After Buying the Company Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uproar Over Grubhub's Kin Khao Debacle Leads to New Law Prohibiting 'Non-Consensual' Restaurant Listings A new law just took effect in California on January 1 that prohibits food delivery apps from listing restaurants among their offerings without expressly contracting with those restaurants first.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Technical Glitch Causes Delivery Disaster for Good Eggs In San Francisco, As Turkeys Failed To Arrive For Thanksgiving San Francisco-based grocery delivery startup Good Eggs left an unknown number of customers high and dry with nothing to eat on Thanksgiving — forcing some on last-minute grocery runs and others ordering takeout and fuming on social media.
Business & Tech Lyft Is Contemplating an Uber Eats-Style Food Delivery Pivot The rideshare company thinks it can find a way to deliver food without tacking on high commission fees, which probably involves blowing ever-larger amounts of other people’s money.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California ABC Agents Conduct Sting to Prevent Booze Deliveries to Minors The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) may have relaxed some of its rules around the sale of alcohol to go but that doesn't mean they've gotten relaxed about enforcement of underage drinking laws.
SF Politics DA Boudin Seeks Injunction To Force DoorDash To Make Its Drivers Employees Boudin had already sued DoorDash in June over classifying drivers as contractors, now he wants a court order demanding that they hire their drivers as employees before the October trial.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After SF Restaurant Complains, DoorDash Apologizes For 'Error' In Which It Was Violating 15% Fee Cap DoorDash, which like other delivery apps must abide by a 15-percent delivery commission cap in San Francisco that was imposed back in April, was charging at least 10 local restaurants an outrageous 30-percent fee on delivery and pickup orders as recently as this week.
Business & Tech Uber Is Now Trying to Buy Postmates San Francisco-based Uber, in a bid to secure Uber Eats as a major player in the future of food delivery, is courting another rival for a possible acquisition — and like with the recently failed courtship of Grubhub, they are not Postmates' only suitor.
Business & Tech Uber Reportedly In Talks To Acquire GrubHub As the pandemic has shifted Uber's business thinking in the direction of more food delivery, the company has reportedly made an offer to acquire GrubHub, the app-based meal delivery rival of Uber Eats and parent company of the Seamless, MenuPages, and Eat24 brands.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zuni Cafe, Rich Table, and All the Other SF Restaurants Now Doing Takeout and Delivery A few more notable restaurants have reopened for delicious takeout and delivery in recent weeks, so SFist is revising and updating this list of select socially distant food options that San Francisco residents can indulge in while in captivity.
Business & Tech Lyft Pivots To ‘Essential Deliveries’ Now That No One is Riding Anywhere Lyft is generating a little more revenue for drivers who’ve taken a hit, but the new program will cater to companies and nonprofits instead of individual delivery customers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Caps Commissions for Food Delivery Apps at 15 Percent Amid the pandemic lockdown, food delivery apps have been raking it in. But a new emergency order from City Hall will limit how much these apps can charge to struggling restaurants for as long as we're still sheltering in place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison and Angler Team To Launch Saison Smokehouse This Weekend With both restaurants shut down for the foreseeable future, the culinary team behind Angler and Saison is launching a to-go barbecue concept this weekend in the Angler space, using the restaurant's centerpiece hearth and live fire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Order From Your Favorite Restaurant Today For the 'Great American Takeout' Many restaurants have been forced to shut their doors indefinitely in San Francisco. For those restaurants that have stayed open to weather this storm as delivery- and takeout-only, today is a day to show solidarity and order from them.
